When it comes to Melania Trump’s disappearance, it’s fair to assume the worst – and then some

| 5:08 pm EDT June 3, 2018
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I’m the first one to admit that I don’t know where Melania Trump is, or why she’s disappeared. Last night I explained why, logically speaking, she’s very probably not dead. I’m the one who fact checked the claim about Melania having changed her Twitter location to New York City, and shot it down. I’m spelling all of this out in order to make clear that I have no desire to overstate the severity of her disappearance. Yet there’s been one consistent outcome with every Donald Trump mystery or scandal.

Now matter how bad any Trump scandal looks from the outside, no matter how ugly it appears based on the limited information available at the time, when we finally get to the truth it turns out to be far worse than even the deepest cynic was predicting. We all knew on election night that the specific results in those swing states were statistically impossible, and something was off. Later we learned that Trump and Russia were conspiring in a number of ways to alter the outcome of the election. Who saw that coming? Then of course it got even worse.

Even once it became clear that the Trump campaign and Russia had been communicating about this, no one imagined that Donald Trump Jr and Paul Manafort were sitting there in Trump Tower, plotting with the Russian government about the election, in broad daylight. When Trump lied to us about the failed Puerto Rico hurricane relief effort, no one was expecting the hidden death toll to be 4,645. When the Trump regime began targeting Hispanic immigrants, no one imagined they’d “lose” fifteen hundred kids to God knows what fate.

With a cartoon monster like Donald Trump, the story always ends up being even worse than we expected, because this guy is always taking an even more depraved and evil approach than we could have imagined. So when it comes to his wife having mysteriously disappeared for three weeks and counting, it’s fair to assume the worst – and then some. With this guy, it always turns out that way.

Dear Palmer Report readers, we all understand the difficult era we're heading into. Major media outlets are caving to Trump already. Even the internet itself and publishing platforms may be at risk. But Palmer Report is nonetheless going to lead the fight. We're funding our 2025 operating expenses now, so we can keep publishing no matter what happens. I'm asking you to contribute if you can, because the stakes are just so high. You can donate here.