Melania Trump's website disappears after architecture degree claim is debunked

2016-07-29T18:01:00-04:00

As you may remember from last week, Melania Trump's (and the RNC's) claim that she has an architecture degree was debunked, after scrutiny from multiple news sources:

The ensuing wave of critical attention towards Melania Trump [for plagiarizing Michelle Obama] dug up other questionable details about her position in the campaign—among them, its claim that she obtained “a degree in design and architecture at University in Slovenia”, according to her bio in the GOP Convention’s program. The same information appears on Melania Trump’s official website.

An obvious red flag, pointed out by snopes.com, is that “There is no ‘University in Slovenia,’ nor is there a ‘University of Slovenia.’” Previous to the RNC, multiple profiles of Melania Trump (including those for GQ and The New Yorker) had looked into her academic background and reported that she did indeed attend the school of architecture at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, to become a designer, but dropped out to pursue modelin...

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Melania Trump's website disappears after architecture degree claim is debunked