“To be perfectly honest, I’d like nothing better than to get Donald Trump and Melania Trump under oath in front of a court reporter, and actually find out all of the details of their relationship with Epstein,” said Michael Wolff today.
Along with a lawsuit filed in New York state court late on October 21, that’s the best-selling author’s “turning the tables on the Trumps” online response to a barbed letter from Melania Trump’s lawyers last week about what the MAGA high priest and high priestess were and are up to with the now deceased Jeffrey Epstein.
The October 15 missive from the First Lady threatened Wolff with a $1 billion suit over “false, defamatory, disparaging, misleading and inflammatory statements”made about her in a podcast and Daily Beast article from the Fire and Fury author. While hype is always a good way to sell books like the tentatively titled The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump (Redux) that Wolff is said to be working on, those statements supposedly include notions of Melania Trump’s allegedly extensive role in the White House efforts to minimize pedophile and party pal Epstein’s relationship with Donald Trump and his third wife.
Wednesday, seeking a declaratory judgement, attorney’s fees and potential damages, Wolff hit back with a legal action of his own. Stating “Mrs. Trump’s claims are made for the purpose of harassing, intimidating, punishing, or otherwise maliciously inhibiting Mr. Wolff s free exercise of speech,” the response is clearly meant to both knock the Trumps off their footing and even get them to talk.
“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,’” says the 15-page filing today from the veteran Trump and Rupert Murdoch chronicler.
“By her Threat Letter and this responsive Declaratory Action and related Anti- SLAPP Declaratory Action, Mrs. Trump has given Wolff subpoena power which he intends to exercise fully and expeditiously,” the filing adds with no small implications of its own.
As the Trump administration often appear to bring the full weight of the federal government from keeping the much MAGA discussed Epstein Files out of public view (Elon Musk says Trump is in them) and pivoting to any distraction they can, the First Lady is also apparently upset about Wolff’s comment that she is in a “sham: marriage. The subject of an upcoming pricey Brett Ratner helmed Amazon authorized documentary, Melania Trump is also not a fan of remarks that Epstein told Wolff in interviews before the convicted financier’s 2019 death the once Apprentice host hubby liked to sleep with his wife’s friends. There’s also comments that Melania and the Donald met at an Epstein connected party, and the now President and his now wife first had sex on Epstein’s private Boeing 727-100, the so-called “Lolita Express.”
In a bit of hyperbole from someone married to Donald Trump, last week Melania Trump’s team said that Wolff’s remarks (which he says were “taken out of context” in some cases) caused the former model to “suffer” from “overwhelming reputational and financial harm.” The First Lady demanded an apology, as well, as the litigious and heavy-handed Trumps are apt to do, cash – or else.
For Wolff, this is just more of the same from the Trumps, but specifically pumped up over a topic they want to get as far away from as possible.
“What Mr. and Mrs. Trump are trying to promote is the false statement that they had almost nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein,” his Miller Korzenik Rayman lawyer assert. “That is why they are struggling to get Congress not to require disclosure of the Epstein files and it is why the Trump’s minions are threatening speakers and journalists such as Mr. Wolff with SLAPP suits to silence their criticism and to suppress and impede their ongoing inquires.”
In a week that saw the release of ex-Mar-A-Lago employee Virginia Giuffre’s Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting For Justice book, Wolff’s suit today has already flipped the script today on the Trumps desire to keep all things them and Epstein out the press. To that, take a look here at his IG video on filing on said suit and that hope to get the First Couple in court:
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