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The best-selling author Michael Wolff is suing Melania Trump in an unprecedented court caseafter she threatened to sue him for $1 billion.
The author, who is co-host of The Daily Beasts hit podcast, Inside Trumps Head, is accusing the First Lady of launching an assault on his free speech and trying to stifle legitimate inquiry into Jeffrey Epstein.
The case is the first time Melania Trump has been sued as First Lady and appears to be the first time a presidents wife has been the subject of court action. Wolff is asking the court for permission to question Melania and Donald Trump under oath about their dealings with Epstein.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/author-launches-bombshell-lawsuit-against-melania-trump-over-epstein/
SheltieLover
(74,645 posts)malaise
(290,446 posts)ReLisa DFiles 😀
SheltieLover
(74,645 posts)malaise
(290,446 posts)SunSeeker
(57,017 posts)Malaria never did anything for free!
SheltieLover
(74,645 posts)Champp
(2,407 posts)barbtries
(30,876 posts)nothing stops these freaks from lying.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(24,438 posts)a kennedy
(34,695 posts)liar are you???
rubbersole
(10,774 posts)From immunity boy.
FakeNoose
(39,130 posts)This is a lawsuit for money damages, not legal infractions.
quakerboy
(14,593 posts)Straw Man
(6,909 posts)nothing stops these freaks from lying.
... but lying under oath brings with it additional legal jeopardy if the lies can be proven at a later date.
BComplex
(9,652 posts)Even the Monster of Epstein Island, Maxwell, gets a country club prison for her evil crimes.
Klarkashton
(4,436 posts)ananda
(33,753 posts)For example, all Democrats!
a kennedy
(34,695 posts)ananda
(33,753 posts)That would do it.
Passages
(3,807 posts)that the statements Melania Trump claims to be defamatory were taken out of context, and in proper context are protected opinion and hypothesis based on disclosed facts and broader context. He also asserts that Melania Trump cannot prove the required burden of actual malice with clear and convincing evidence that Wolff did not believe his statements to be true.
Wolff filed the 15-page civil defamation suit in New York Supreme Court under the states anti-SLAPP law, short for strategic lawsuits against public participation, which is designed to block lawsuits intended to chill speech. He says the libel threat letter is part of a pattern of abusive litigation deployed by the Trumps, designed to create a climate of fear in the nation so that people cannot freely or confidently exercise their First Amendment rights.
Mrs. Trump and her unitary executive husband along with their MAGA myrmidons have made a practice of threatening those who speak against them with costly SLAPP actions in order to silence their speech, to intimidate their critics generally, and to extract unjustified payments and North Korean style confessions and apologies, Wolff wrote.
https://www.courthousenews.com/michael-wolff-sues-melania-trump-to-stave-off-billion-dollar-libel-threat-over-epstein-claims/
malaise
(290,446 posts)The perfect word for the lackeys
reACTIONary
(6,766 posts).... Achilles a bad name.
sop
(16,598 posts)
Passages
(3,807 posts)FakeNoose
(39,130 posts)She doesn't live at the White House, and she spends more time with her son (who's currently going to school) than she does with her husband-in-name-only. If anyone is helping Chump run the country right now, it's probably Stephen Miller. And we don't need to seen any more photos of him.
oberle
(221 posts)doing online school this year.
FakeNoose
(39,130 posts)There were rumors about him having terrible grades back when he finished high school.
You'd think the family could afford a private tutor for him though.
Joinfortmill
(19,278 posts)MorbidButterflyTat
(3,803 posts)Mrs. Trump and her unitary executive husband along with their MAGA myrmidons have made a practice of threatening those who speak against them with costly SLAPP actions in order to silence their speech, to intimidate their critics generally, and to extract unjustified payments and North Korean style confessions and apologies, Wolff wrote.
Very powerful.
And I learned a new word.
Joinfortmill
(19,278 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(11,293 posts)allegorical oracle
(5,868 posts)SheltieLover
(74,645 posts)gfarber
(131 posts)A writer named Wolff made a claim,
That plunged Melania in fame.
He sued her in court,
For threats of the sort,
That billion-dollar lawsuits inflame.
She warned him with fury and might,
Retract, or prepare for a fight!
But Wolff wouldnt yield,
And ran to the field
Of courtrooms, not headlines, this night.
He hosts a bold podcast each week,
Where secrets and scandals hell seek.
Now Epsteins dark trail,
Has set him to sail,
Through waters both choppy and bleak.
He claims shes suppressing his pen,
With lawsuits and legal "what then?"
A First Lady first,
In court and coerced,
To answer for Epstein again.
Now Trump and Melania may swear,
To truths theyd much rather forbear.
With Wolff on the stand,
And subpoenas in hand,
Its drama too strange not to share.
aggiesal
(10,445 posts)SheltieLover
(74,645 posts)littlemissmartypants
(30,431 posts)lastlib
(26,933 posts)And we all KNOW it!
Joinfortmill
(19,278 posts)BaronChocula
(3,641 posts)We've all seen the pics.
popsdenver
(766 posts)she was "fishing" for a Wealthy American, as a "model"........
Then, she became the Trophy Wife of Trump, and he stripped her down and made her pose so he could show her to the world....
Trump is pond scum, and a despicable example of a sub-human being.........
BaronChocula
(3,641 posts)after all that effort just to be rich. I can't imagine she has anything to be happy about with her purposeless life, sneaking around, trying to avoid any attention. Plenty of money, but no joy.
allegorical oracle
(5,868 posts)littlemissmartypants
(30,431 posts)BaronChocula
(3,641 posts)is unBLINGable.
peppertree
(22,977 posts)"Ah - quit yer bellyaching, Mellie. Don't forget what happened to.... Ivana."
BaronChocula
(3,641 posts)peppertree
(22,977 posts)It is what it is.
JT45242
(3,694 posts)We are fairly certain Melanoma was a honey pot plant of russian oligarchs tied to Putin to help launder money originally but even more useful as a weapon of chaos politically.
I would be shocked if she was not involved in bringing in girls either for a financial cut or as part of the operation to get kompromat and influence for former KGB oligarchs who were friends with her relatives. Ot the ever popular BOTH -- spying and skimming off the top.
tazcat
(177 posts)littlemissmartypants
(30,431 posts)ificandream
(11,481 posts)allegorical oracle
(5,868 posts)him a liar, but he aptly points out that they have been mostly silent about his works.
3825-87867
(1,659 posts)Could this be a, or the, real reason trump's trying to get rid of the Epstein Files?
Would this be worse than learning trump IS a pedo?
Inquiring minds really, really want to know!
popsdenver
(766 posts)is the one that "found" Melania and had her as his squeeze then a year later he said Trump could start "dating" her.......
I would normally dismiss this as pure rumor, but with all that we FACTUALLY know at this point, it certainly seems possible, if not probable.
Plus so much we DON'T know..........Certainly Ghislaine? could give client lists, photos and video's.......but they are all her "get out of jail free card" and her life insurance..........as well as being awash in income money for the rest of her entire life......
Same thing as that Madam years ago, Heidi Fleis?.........who also used her black book threat of client's names to get out of jail, and avoid any further prosecution.
I can only imagine that it is not only Ghislaine? who has a ton of records on Trump, Epstein, and an endless list, pictures and videos of clients, but certainly Putin has it all too......Including Republican U.S. Senators and Republican U.S. House members.....Lindsey Graham comes to mind....
NewEnglandAutumn
(249 posts)Maru Kitteh
(30,863 posts)She looks so comfortable with all those sex predators.
KS Toronado
(21,664 posts)Johonny
(24,920 posts)miyazaki
(2,558 posts)Then he wrote "Fire and Fury". He knows these fuckers intimately and knows what he's doing.
His emphatic response when asked if Trump was fit to serve was "absolutely not"!
ultralite001
(2,164 posts)TIA
FakeNoose
(39,130 posts)I've read a few of his books and found them mostly enjoyable reading.
One thing I know is that Michael Wolff has interview recordings to back up whatever goes into his books. He really does interview people, and gets them to reveal stuff. So I guess that makes him a pretty good reporter. I don't know whether he follows the rule of the newspaper business, namely that he must find a 2nd source to backup the first one. (That remains to be seen.)
This lawsuit is going to be awesome! I don't know how Melania is going refute him, but I'm sure Michael has proof from somewhere, somehow.
moonscape
(5,601 posts)fall out of a building.
markodochartaigh
(4,465 posts)this sounds interesting though.
Scrivener7
(57,522 posts)he has a LOT of dirt on Cankles. He has a daily podcast on The Daily Beast. It's worthwhile.
markodochartaigh
(4,465 posts)it out.
Hekate
(99,957 posts)Scrivener7
(57,522 posts)going to need.
I'll keep an eye out for it and post a link here if anyone is interested.
Whatever you think of Wolff, he knows the questions to ask in discovery. This will be another chink in the wall around the Epstein files. And Cankles's behavior is screaming that the Epstein files will bring him down.