The vanishing credentials of Mrs. Trump

Dubious claim of degree now gone from Melania’s website

PHILADELPHIA— Melania Trump’s cribbing of Michelle Obama’s lines was not the first time she claimed something that was not hers.

For months now, reporters have noted that Trump, who grew up in the small Slovenian town of Sevnica, did not obtain an undergraduate degree in architecture from the University of Ljubljana, as her professional website claimed she did. Instead, she left after her first year to pursue a modelling career in Milan.

As recently as a week ago, Trump’s website stated that she had obtained a degree before becoming a philanthropist and skin care entrepreneur.

On Wednesday, The Huffington Post noticed that the site had been scrubbed of its content. People clicking on its address are redirected to the Trump Organization’s website.

In a Twitter post, Melania Trump said the website had been removed “because it does not accurately reflect my current business and professional interests.”

Last week, Trump’s speech at the GOP convention contained a few lines from Michelle Obama’s speech at the DNC in 2008.