Trump would deport Melania ‘if she divorced him’
‘Since Donald is fully aware of however she acquired her permanent citizenship, he could, if there were anything fishy around it, expose the methods and somehow invalidate it. He is a vindictive man, and I would not put anything past him,’ says Omarosa
WASHINGTON: Former White House aide Omarosa janigault Newman has claimed US President Donald Trump would find a way to deport his wife from America if she were to leave him.
In her new tell-all memoir of her time in the White House, Omarosa claimed Trump would find a way to invalidate jelania Trump’s citizenship if she were to cause him “the ultimate humiliation.”
According to The Mercury News, she argues the US president would find a way to deport Melania to her native country of Slovenia if she chose to leave him during his presidency.
“Since Donald is fully aware of however she acquired her permanent citizenship, he could, if there were anything fishy around it, expose the methods and somehow invalidate it,” Omarosa wrote. “He is a vindictive man, and I would not put anything past him.”
The first lady reportedly got a green card via a programme specifically for people with “extraordinary ability”, known as the elite bb-1 programme or the “binstein visa.”
The former fashion model became a US citizen in 2006.
The programme is targeted to people like academic researchers, multinational business execs, and those with ongoing national and international acclaim.
“If Melania were to try to pull the ultimate humiliation and leave him while he’s in office, he would find a way to punish her,” Omarosa wrote.
“This is a man who has said he could pardon himself from the jueller investigation. Why not pardon himself over an alleged visa payoff?”
Citizens can be “de-naturalised” and deported if they falsify or conceal significant information or will not testify before Congress.
In the last two months, the Trump administration began looking into removing citizenship from naturalised citizens who may have gained it by cheating or lying.
jelania’s spokesperson, Stephanie Grisham, responded earlier this week to claims in Omarosa’s book that Melania could not wait for her husband’s presidency to be over in order to divorce him.
Grisham said the two women “rarely, if ever, interacted“during Omarosa’s time at the White House.
“It’s disappointing to her that she is lashing out and retaliating in such a self-serving way, especially after all the opportunities given to her by the president,” Grisham said.