

Fortune has reached out to Ioffe for comment and will update this story if the journalist responds. Based on its results, the court determined that Viktor was, in fact, the boy’s biological father.ĭonald Trump has yet to speak publicly about the profile. Viktor continued to deny paternity-going into detail for the court about when he had sex with Marija and the rhythms of her menstrual cycle-prompting the court to order a blood test. Here’s how Ioffe details Knavs’ court battle with his son’s mother: The second has to do with Ioffe’s reporting on Melania’s half-brother, who, according to the GQ story, has never been acknowledged by his father and whose existence has never been reported on by the media.

(He was charged with a tax offense, though his record was later cleared on account of Slovenia’s statute of limitations, a process the courts described to me as “legal rehabilitations.”) Police files from the time indicate Viktor aroused suspicion for illicit trade and tax evasion in 1976. In one, Ioffe brings up illicit trade and tax evasion charges made against him: Trump may be referring to two excerpts from the piece regarding her father, Viktor Knavs. “My parents are private citizens and should not be subject to Ms. In the post, Trump returns repeatedly to the allegation that Ioffe invaded her family’s privacy. In the GQ story, Ioffe wrote that “Melania’s caviar-infused anti-aging creams haven’t sold as well, though a federal judge ruled in her favor in a lawsuit she filed against its promoters.” Responding in her Facebook post, Trump writes, “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.”
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Trump was slightly more explicit in calling out an alleged error regarding her Melania Skin Care Collection, writing “the statement surrounding the performance of my skincare collection is completely false.” She went on to claim that there were “numerous inaccuracies” in the story about her family, but didn’t go into detail. Julia Ioffe, a journalist who is looking to make a name for herself, clearly had an agenda when going after my family,” wrote Melania Trump. “The article published in GQ today is yet another example of the dishonest media and their disingenuous reporting. It’s not a college lecture, sure, but maybe at least let the expert get a word in? “Otherwise,” Ioffe wrote, “don’t waste my fucking evening.” O’Donnell, at least, played the good sport on Twitter, linking to Ioffe’s original article on the matter, calling it the “best thing” he read on the subject, and adding, “Thanks for joining us.On Wednesday evening, Donald Trump’s wife wrote a Facebook (FB) post referring to a profile of her that was published earlier that day in GQ. She proceeded to make a simple, bullet-pointed list of arguments that would never be allowed on cable television because they reveal an ability to think outside a black or white, good or bad, America or Russia dichotomy. In a post for the New Republic, Ioffe insisted, “god damn it, I know my shit.” Obama’s decision to not meet with Putin one-on-one, she wrote, was a good one, but it was larger than Snowden. The segment, mercifully, ended, but the fight did not.

In general, people who haven’t been to Russia tend to overestimate their abilities.” Ioffe added, “We really overestimate Putin’s abilities.” O’Donnell, voiced raised Newsroom style, stressed Putin’s all-consuming power and exclaimed, “Let’s not be ridiculous about this!” and “We’re getting absurd now!” To which Ioffe asked, “Have you reported out of Russia?” “But I think you do overestimate the Russians. Ioffe was already wrapping up her time as a contributor to Politico and moving to a new job at The Atlantic when she posted the ill-advised tweet, but now Politico is accelerating the process. “They had and still have complete power over his every breath,” especially Putin. Russia had “complete, total, absolute control over that outcome,” he said. “There was really nothing the Russians could do,” said Ioffe, which really set O’Donnell off. She argued that Snowden was a “headache” for Russia, but that the country could not let him go once the Bolivian plane thought to be holding him was downed in Austria. First, Ioffe, a Moscow-based “expert” (her word) on Russia, appeared on the show. MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell and New Republic journalist Julia Ioffe had it out last night in a most entertaining fashion over Russia’s handling of the Edward Snowden case, ending in a withering blog post in which the writer called the talking head an “angry grandpa” and accused him of “O’Reilly”-ing her.
