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Melania’s Former Friend Calls Out the Ex-First Lady’s Biggest Lie (and Melania Isn’t Going to Like It)

She can barely speak English.

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At a town hall broadcast on Fox News, Donald Trump went back to one of his favorite claims — what a genius his wife is.

Now, it’s not hard to note that Melania seems a little slow in most departments, but it would be east to chalk it up to a communication barrier. She is from Slovenia, and traveling to America to be a fashion model cannot have been much of an incentive to dive into our language or culture.

But host Laura Ingraham specifically asked Donald about how much Melania might be appearing on the campaign trail with him, “given her ability to speak so many languages.” And that’s what invited Donald to lie again.

Again, it’s obvious that Melania doesn’t speak five languages. But the fact that Trump just repeats it so casually is obnoxious. And Melania’s former friend and aide, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, wants to correct the record. She went straight for X, formerly Twitter, to issue her objection:

Melania Trump claims to be fluent in five languages. Not ONCE did I hear or see Melania speak or write in anything but English and Slovenian. Not that I’m saying there’s anything wrong with speaking only two languages – that’s one more than I can-BUT I’ve never CLAIMED otherwise.

Many social media users were not kind.

“She probably can say ‘the price is five thousand dollars’ in five languages!” wrote one. “Of course she lies about everything. Look who she married,” said another.

None of the obvious facts stopped Trump from carrying on the facade:

She’s a very brilliant person. She speaks many languages. Her life evolves [sic] around that boy [Barron] it’s so important to her – at the same time, it also revolves around our country and the success of our country. She’s raised a lot of money for charity.

She’s a private person. It’s funny, she was a very successful model, very, very successful, and yet she was a private person. She’s going to be out a lot, not because she likes doing it, but she likes the result. She wants to see this country really succeed.

[People] love the fact that she’s not out there so much. You know, a lot of first ladies will go out. They want to be everywhere. They get angry at their husband because he’s not introducing them. If I didn’t introduce Melania she’d be very happy about it. She’s just a different kind of a person. And she loves the country. She’s gonna be out quite a bit and she loves his country and she wants a great and she says hello.

Okay, Donnie. Whatever you say. And for the record we have covered the fact that Melania doesn’t speak “5 or 6” languages many times in the past, and with proof.

A language expert has also debunked her claim in the video below:

Andrew Simpson
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