Melania’s Deception

The fascinating thing about the third Mrs. Trump is the depths she will go to maintain one of the world's most shallow existences. That is the paradox—or perhaps the answer—to what makes her tick.

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There is something magnificently brazen about Melania Trump's capacity for reinvention. Not since the great social climbers of the Gilded Age has someone so thoroughly demolished their own biography and rebuilt it from scratch with such icy precision. But now, as the Epstein scandal threatens to expose the darkest corners of her past, America's sphinx is discovering that even the most artfully constructed lies have their expiration date.

The woman who would become First Lady twice understood early that in America, you are exactly wh…