Not for nothin'... but it seems to me Melania has a lot of power over Trump...

[Joinfortmill]

Have you noticed, she gets no shit from him, at all. EVER. I think she might really be a Russian operative. I wonder what the CIA knows.

[Dale in Laurel MD]

1. I've noticed the same thing.

nt

[montanacowboy]

2. She practically threw him out of the car

at her mother's funeral. And he took it and slunk off. I don't care for her by any means but maybe there is something there.

[tanyev]

3. Yep, and did you see the footage from the funeral where she told him to get in the other car?

He promptly turned around and got in the other car. Name one other person who could tell him to do something and he would do it without any discussion.

[dmr]

9. Really? I didn't know that. Is there a video?

You're right, there is no one he would obey. He would throw a temper tantrum. A very angry tantrum ... especially this "disrespect" toward him was out for the whole world to see.

Unless he was afraid. Seriously afraid.

[viva la]

4. There was a lot of speculation that Ivana (first wife) was allowed to leave the USSR--

because she agreed to serve in some secret capacity.

I thought her exit from Czechoslovakia was rather suspiciously easy, because I had a friend whose family defected from there at about the same time-- and it was very cloak-and-dagger, midnight drive to the border, sneaking over, getting to Austria and begging for asylum. It took months to arrange and achieve (and months more to get to the United States).
Ivana pretended to marry some Austrian guy and was allowed to leave (there might have been some kind of marriage, but she left him soon after she got to Austria). She made her way to Canada, worked as a ski instructor, and seems to have moseyed her way across the border to New York, and eventually met Trump.

The KGB was known to be attempting to compromise US businessmen. And Trump, after he married Ivana, did indeed go to the USSR, and the KGB had a file on him.
When did the KGB open a file on Donald Trump? We don’t know, but Eastern Bloc security service records suggest this may have been as early as 1977. That was the year when Trump married Ivana Zelnickova, a twenty-eight-year-old model from Czechoslovakia. Zelnickova was a citizen of a communist country. She was therefore of interest both to the Czech intelligence service, the StB, and to the FBI and CIA.

Much more here--
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/19/trump-first-moscow-trip-215842/

[Joinfortmill]

6. Wow, what a story.

[dalton99a]

10. +1

[dmr]

17. Thank you for the link.

I've started to read it and will finish it later tonight.

[nini]

5. I've thought that for a while now

Otherwise she would’ve dumped his ass and exposed all his secrets to get her payday, or some kind of divorce package. She’s not staying there for nothing and he obviously knows she’s in charge.

[viva la]

14. Yeah, she might have had a pre-nup, but they've been married nearly 20 years.

Some say she means to stay till he dies to make sure her son gets an equal inheritance, and he just keeps living.

But she could divorce his butt if she wanted to. She could make millions on a tell-all.

[GuppyGal]

7. Ya she has plenty of compromant nt

[dalton99a]

8. Best way for Putin to keep an eye on his asset

[Maru Kitteh]

11. I think they are both opportunistic assholes.

The end.

[EX500rider]

12. Somewhat unlikely

As she was born in Yugoslavia which was not part of the Soviet lead Warsaw Pact and would have had minimal KGB infiltration.

[Irish_Dem]

13. She could ruin his presidential campaign with one press conference.

She knows where all the the bodies are buried.

[bamagal62]

15. I've been saying this for years.

She's his handler.

[Funtatlaguy]

16. Melania, Baron, Jared, Ivanka all noticeably absent from the

campaign trail.
None of them were in Iowa or New Hampshire.
Interesting. 🤔

[TSExile]

18. Well, Barron is still a minor...

...and is probably in school.

[pfitz59]

19. Maybe she has the Epstein tapes?

They were together... a lot.

[Beetwasher.]

20. Well, She Answers to Putin

Who else do you think his Russian handler would be? I mean, if the shoe fits!

[lame54]

21. Wonder if Baron was Artificially Inseminated

[FHRRK]

22. That has been mine and many others, belief for years

Russia got a shit ton of leverage over tRump from the early 90s to 2014. Melania gets into the Country on false pretenses and ends up marrying him.

FFS most logical conclusion. She has been an operative days after some Russian KGB resource screwed her.

[Straw Man]

23. He can't let on that there's anything wrong with his marriage.

To berate her in public would be to admit that it isn't "Perfect, perfect, a perfect marriage. A marriage like you've never seen before. People are saying they've never seen a marriage this perfect. They come up to me and say 'Sir, we've never seen such a perfect marriage.'"