It seems that Donald isn’t the only Trump with something to hide.
As we’re all painfully aware by now, Donald’s wife Melania and her parents immigrated to the United States from their home country of Slovenia. Typically speaking — and even more so now under the even stricter, harsher, and crueler guidelines implemented by Trump and his administration — gaining legal citizenship to the US requires a squeaky clean criminal record, at the very least.
Now, we already know that Melania’s path to citizenship leaves us with a hell of a lot more questions than answers — like, how does someone get an Einstein visa when they excel at literally nothing?
However, it’s not often that people question the legality surrounding her mother and father’s path to join her. But thanks to an explosive report from the Daily Beast, it looks as though we should be. Viktor Knavs appears to have a record, folks.
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A New York Times report depicts neighbors of Melania’s father describing him as very Trump-like in his demeanor — with many calling him “larger than life” in his home town and recollecting that he “always wore a tie, smart clothes and carried a briefcase. You could not avoid noticing him.”
In the course of a bit of digging by Melania’s biographer, Igor Omerza, his mannerisms aren’t the only characteristic he shares with his now son-in-law.
While combing through names on “UDBA Net” — a secret police archive database of individuals with a criminal record in Communist Yugoslavia, before Slovenia secured their independence — Omerza stumbled across a very familiar name: Viktor Knavs.
The entry wasn’t exactly liberal with the details, only stating that “the person is registered in the criminal record,” cited under articles 226 and 235 of the Yugoslav penal code. Specific charges, investigations, and/or convictions weren’t specified in the archives.
However, article 226 “involved the acquisition, sale or production of goods without the explicit permission of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia” while article 235 was centered around tax evasion — both of which, respectively, carry up to 8 and 10 years in prison.
Immigration attorney and former head of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, David Leopold, told the Beast that if Knavs actually was convicted of these crimes, not only would it have been grounds to deny his green card, it could be grounds to revoke it, currently.
Of course, the Knavs immigration attorney is parroting the same nonsense regarding Viktor’s fishy citizenship as he does when he finds himself questioned regarding Melania’s: “Mr. Knavs’s application for U.S. citizenship was properly executed and adjudicated, consistent with the Immigration and Nationality Act. His naturalization process was no different than anyone else seeking citizenship in this country.”
It’s terribly funny how Trump’s strict, hateful immigration stance suddenly loses all it’s steam when the immigrants happen to be his wife and her family, isn’t it?
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