For years, Melania Trump’s online biography stated that she had “obtained a degree in design and architecture at University in Slovenia.” This was something that she had claimed at least since 2006. However, she never obtained a degree from the University of Ljubljana. The falsehood was repeated on the Republican National Convention’s program in July 2016, despite a profile of Melanie Trump by Julia Ioffe published in April 2016 in GQ which Ioffe said that “Melania decamped to Milan after her first year of college, effectively dropping out.” In response to the lie being exposed, the online biography was temporarily taken down in late July 2016, as several news outlets reported. On her Twitter account she claimed, instead, that it was taken down because “it does not reflect my current business and professional interests.”

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