Melania Trump Rails Against Reporter’s ‘Dishonest’ GQ Profile

Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, left, and his wife Melania Trump attend the TIME 100 Gala, celebrating the 100 most influential people in the world, at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center ... Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, left, and his wife Melania Trump attend the TIME 100 Gala, celebrating the 100 most influential people in the world, at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center on Tuesday, April 26, 2016, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) MORE LESS
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Melania Trump, the wife of GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, on Wednesday critiqued a GQ Magazine feature on her that divulged she had a secret half-brother and detailed a legal battle involving her caviar skincare line.

“The article published in GQ today is yet another example of the dishonest media and their disingenuous reporting,” Trump wrote on Facebook. “Julia Ioffe, a journalist who is looking to make a name for herself, clearly had an agenda when going after my family.”

Trump, who granted Ioffe a phone interview, alleged there were “numerous inaccuracies” in the article. She pointed to statements about her family and “claims on personal matters,” without providing specific examples.

Ioffe reported in her profile that because Trump’s caviar-infused skincare creams hadn’t sold well, she filed a lawsuit—and won—against the products’ promoters. Trump said that statement was “completely false.”

“The company in which I was involved with did not honor the contract and did not meet their obligations and as such the courts ruled in my favor,” she wrote.

Read the full Facebook post below:

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  1. The jokes just keep writing themselves. The writers at SNL aren’t even earning their money anymore. They don’t have to.

  2. Melanoma, please proceed.

  3. caviar-infused skincare creams

    Made specially for people with too much money and vanity.

  4. Let’s hope Melania doesn’t get so upset she rips off all her clothes in a fit of pique.

  5. Well, I believe if you get your hands on the court papers you might be able to decide that issue. I’m sure Donald will simply fire off a few indignant tweets, and this will be the last we ever hear about this. I don’t care what Trump’s mail-order bride does, she’s not running for anything. The Vulgar Talking Yam (copyright C.P.Pierce) provides plenty of material, leave her out of of it.

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