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Joinfortmill

(21,264 posts)
Thu Apr 9, 2026, 07:03 PM 22 hrs ago

This may be what the Melania Presser was about today...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/author-michael-wolff-files-suit-melania-trump-jeffrey-epstein-threat-rcna239257

'Author Michael Wolff has sued first lady Melania Trump, charging that she threatened a $1 billion legal action against him to stop him from reporting and writing about her alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

"Mrs. Trump's claims are made for the sole purpose of harassing, intimidating, punishing or otherwise maliciously inhibiting Mr. Wolff's free exercise of speech," said the suit, which was filed Tuesday in New York Supreme Court in Manhattan"....

Trump has been aggressive in pushing back against what her lawyers describe as false reports linking to her Epstein, and her office said in a statement Wednesday that she "is proud to continue standing up to those who spread malicious and defamatory falsehoods as they desperately try to get undeserved attention and money from their unlawful conduct."
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This may be what the Melania Presser was about today... (Original Post) Joinfortmill 22 hrs ago OP
Recommended. H2O Man 22 hrs ago #1
I'm surprised Patel and DOJ didn't arrest him on bogus charges............... Lovie777 21 hrs ago #2
Give them time. SergeStorms 4 hrs ago #29
She "is proud to continue standing up to those who spread malicious and defamatory falsehoods." Doodley 21 hrs ago #3
If she is so 'proud'... OldBaldy1701E 8 hrs ago #22
OFFS, Mel. sheshe2 21 hrs ago #4
She is afflicted with the same symptoms her husband has...ME, ME, ME MEism Deuxcents 20 hrs ago #9
You are right about that. sheshe2 20 hrs ago #10
They have weaved a web of lies for so long, the story changes each time they're confronted because Deuxcents 20 hrs ago #11
'Oh what a tangled web we weave/ When first we practice to deceive ' sheshe2 20 hrs ago #12
This has been going on for quite awhile now, has something new come to light? Bev54 21 hrs ago #5
My guess discovery and evidence Joinfortmill 21 hrs ago #8
So I hope that means she has finally been served papers Bev54 18 hrs ago #18
That makes sense. yellow dahlia 17 hrs ago #19
Wolf filed his suit more than five months ago onenote 21 hrs ago #6
Likely taking statements, discovery, etc. Joinfortmill 21 hrs ago #7
The lawyers for Melania (and Chump) will never allow discovery FakeNoose 19 hrs ago #13
Maybe her son is having trouble with bullies in school? Attilatheblond 19 hrs ago #15
Her emails to Maxwell are in the public domain wolfie001 19 hrs ago #14
Sweet pea! jfz9580m 5 hrs ago #25
Every word and every thought I share! wolfie001 3 hrs ago #30
Kick dalton99a 19 hrs ago #16
Her making a statement on camera poli-junkie 18 hrs ago #17
The pressor was about CYA Randomthought 17 hrs ago #20
Did Epstein cuck Trump? LudwigPastorius 17 hrs ago #21
I like the way you think! PJMcK 12 min ago #33
READ THIS: AverageOldGuy 7 hrs ago #23
You know what this makes me think? ScratchCat 5 hrs ago #26
George Conway was on Dean Obeidallah's show barbtries 6 hrs ago #24
Putin's Plant Performing Perfectly czarjak 4 hrs ago #27
Gold digging/ working girl /Russian asset is proud of herself. Irish_Dem 4 hrs ago #28
Maybe the oligarchs are starting to panic? Sweet Rosie Red 1 hr ago #31
Didn't she do a porn ? MW67 31 min ago #32

Doodley

(11,943 posts)
3. She "is proud to continue standing up to those who spread malicious and defamatory falsehoods."
Thu Apr 9, 2026, 07:21 PM
21 hrs ago

Yet she never speaks up against the lies and the nasty smears about other people, spread by her husband. Obama wasn't born in Hawaii. Ted Cruz's dad has something to do JFK's assassination. Yes, this is all about playing the victim in the face of the truth about their relationship with Epstein. She is a despicable human being.

OldBaldy1701E

(11,222 posts)
22. If she is so 'proud'...
Fri Apr 10, 2026, 08:45 AM
8 hrs ago

Then, let's see what is being said.

If it is false, then it will be easily proven through discovery.

If not...

sheshe2

(97,719 posts)
4. OFFS, Mel.
Thu Apr 9, 2026, 07:22 PM
21 hrs ago
she "is proud to continue standing up to those who spread malicious and defamatory falsehoods as they desperately try to get undeserved attention and money from their unlawful conduct."


Why don't you stand up for the victims of Eps and TSF's rapes.

Deuxcents

(27,079 posts)
11. They have weaved a web of lies for so long, the story changes each time they're confronted because
Thu Apr 9, 2026, 08:33 PM
20 hrs ago

They can’t remember which lie goes to which issue and which one they used last.

Bev54

(13,450 posts)
18. So I hope that means she has finally been served papers
Thu Apr 9, 2026, 10:36 PM
18 hrs ago

She has been avoiding it for months.

FakeNoose

(41,801 posts)
13. The lawyers for Melania (and Chump) will never allow discovery
Thu Apr 9, 2026, 09:31 PM
19 hrs ago

When Melania gives her deposition she will need to swear under oath to tell the truth. Chump's lawyers could never allow that, for obvious reasons. They KNOW how guilty he is, and she can spill the beans.

Attilatheblond

(8,976 posts)
15. Maybe her son is having trouble with bullies in school?
Thu Apr 9, 2026, 09:38 PM
19 hrs ago

She really needs to stop Wolf from publishing. Barron is kinda tall to disappear into witness protection hiding from peer comments about his momma bear.

Lots of luck with that Ms Einstein Visa!

wolfie001

(7,740 posts)
14. Her emails to Maxwell are in the public domain
Thu Apr 9, 2026, 09:32 PM
19 hrs ago

Very chummy. Very familiar. All those pics with the 4 of them together. She's pathetic.

jfz9580m

(17,270 posts)
25. Sweet pea!
Fri Apr 10, 2026, 11:33 AM
5 hrs ago

Indeed they are shameful. These people really are criminals. Leading such carefree lives and the gross creepy people associated with them seem to have no concern for anything but reputation management.

I hate people like that. There is no sympathy for those women. Just damage control.

I was reading about this one anonymous victim I felt extra sorry for. So many of those girls
lead such hard lives. She was, as far as I can tell, raped by Trump, Epstein and some other rapist criminals all of whom should be doing hard time. And then her mother was extorted for money by Epstein using photos they took and her mom ended up going to prison. And she got threatening calls..

This is truly an indictment on this society.

I had largely tuned the Epstein Files out since they are unpleasant reading. But on a whim I finally looked at them a few weeks and was disgusted by this kid’s story in particular since till then I hadn’t seen as clear a story of assault of a minor. There are other stories (all disgusting), but they are more vague and it is important to not add to the din online which works to help these criminal creeps.

I would be shocked if this one didn’t check out. How is this getting normalized? That’s the effect of this disgusting PanOpticon. Normalization of child rape and sexual harassment with apparently a tacit position that the less women can vote in any form the better.

But also a constant 1984 like imposition or inquisition for the average person-female or male trying to eke out a living.

These people are criminals. Long past time for guillotines.

Look at these two stories, one about our elites getting away with stuff and the other about the average worker. I collected this years ago when dejected by the surveillance state I got an early and demeaning introduction to:

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/these-workers-have-new-demand-stop-watching-us/

These Workers Have a New Demand: Stop Watching Us
How workplace surveillance has become a menace to health and safety.

JESSICA BRUDER


Four years ago, I was out jogging with an old friend when she told me a puzzling story: Her longtime UPS driver had just reappeared after more than a monthlong absence. He’d been hospitalized for stress, she told me.

Stress? How stressful could that job be? So I asked to meet him.

Over coffee, the deliveryman, whom I’ll call Bill (he asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation from the company), explained that United Parcel Service had been upgrading its systems for tracking employees. Now the truck he drove was full of sensors. They reported when he opened the bulkhead door. When he backed up. When his foot was on the brake. When he was idling. When he buckled his safety belt. A high-resolution stream of data, including all that information and his GPS coordinates, flowed back to the UPS offices. The system is called “telematics.”


That’s your plight or mine more and more, with creepy, corrupt Epstein associated labs often building all this worthless surveillance rot that is shilled perkily:
https://news.mit.edu/2016/startup-cogito-voice-analytics-call-centers-ptsd-0120

Customer service calls can be frustrating for consumers and agents alike. But MIT spinout Cogito believes it can use behavioral analytics to make those experiences less onerous.

Cogito has developed voice-analytics software for call centers — refined through years of research that focused on human behavior — that tracks, in real-time, voice patterns of customers and agents, and offers feedback to make the conversations more productive.

By doing so, Cogito also aims to make millions of call center workers happier and more productive. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 5 million of 146 million workers in the U.S. are employed in call centers. That’s roughly one out of every 25 Americans.

Cogito recently secured funding in November to develop technology for customer-service applications. The company also continues its history of using the technology to monitor mental health.


Creeps like Pentland, Feast and their shitware are the last thing I would allow anywhere near my devices, home, phone etc. Sadly he was involved in India’s digital id program, which was a creepy nightmare. I experienced harassment at an Akshaya office in 2016 or 2017.

What is most disgusting is the totally phony “concern” including inclusion by now of some absolutely shady frauds shedding crocodile tears over “concerns about surveillance”. The most disgusting thing about these creepy, sleazy Stanford and MIT Media Lab types are cheery pro-health pitches and totally fake “care”. Who are these overrated parasites kidding? They do nothing of value but snoop and thieve. Mediocre, corrupt creeps.

From personal experience and the news I know how creepy, backward and sexist this type is. They are definitely nothing like the scientists I knew or know (who don’t work in shit like this). All fluff, snooping and social engineering - that trash.

And with all the disgusting snooping, they also normalize surveillance, blame female survivors, attack the credibility and mental health of women. It is sexist to the core and is an open secret in corrupt, sleazy, self-loathing circles. I back this girl and hope she gets traction:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/lawyer-trump-sex-accuser-13-225311167.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGHz_F9-H6CBCL8mh_eMD9wYlt79J89wcueLaOH6JEHGWhpWcacMukfrCCUR-ZB5_wJsdEPITXx6QfpFG9qqdj3qtrppWEJaa4sRXGvqq51EnAHQnQF0ra2sUaRxcvA7l5IIvpiLvYPEiMEmvxsWcVTdOymZUxN16tw6XFnYhI5O

Lisa Bloom represents the woman who claimed that Jeffrey Epstein introduced her to Trump in 1984, when she was about 13 years old. An FBI report released as part of the Epstein files revealed the woman told interviewers in 2019 that Trump had forced her to perform a sexual act on him.

She claimed Trump then punched her on the side of her head after she allegedly “bit the s--t out of” his penis. Trump has denied the accusations.

Bloom, in a statement to the Daily Beast, referenced Melania Trump’s shocking press statement, where she denied having any knowledge of Epstein’s crimes—or any relationship with the disgraced financier.

“While Melania Trump seems primarily concerned about her own reputation today, she does call for congressional hearings. We agree,” said Bloom. “And the man who is mentioned probably more than anyone else in the Epstein files should be subpoenaed to testify: Donald Trump.”

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.


I support that child - well woman now and hope she gets justice. Good for..bloody pedo..

wolfie001

(7,740 posts)
30. Every word and every thought I share!
Fri Apr 10, 2026, 01:35 PM
3 hrs ago

I'm a Boomer guy and agree with every point. I've always empathized with women and seen how horribly they're treated in both the US and India. And really in most countries worldwide. Keep the faith! The world needs to do better! Cheers!

poli-junkie

(1,575 posts)
17. Her making a statement on camera
Thu Apr 9, 2026, 10:12 PM
18 hrs ago

reminds me of when she went on camera to support her campaigning husband that his “grab ‘em by the pussy” audio on the bus was just “locker room talk”

T-rump is pushing her once again to get out in front of the slime that is T-rump and the Epstein Class.

LudwigPastorius

(14,784 posts)
21. Did Epstein cuck Trump?
Thu Apr 9, 2026, 11:31 PM
17 hrs ago

Did he make him sit in a chair in the corner with a ball gag in his mouth?

Hey, I'm just asking questions here.

AverageOldGuy

(3,933 posts)
23. READ THIS:
Fri Apr 10, 2026, 09:25 AM
7 hrs ago

From the "Lawyers, Guns, and Money" blog.

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/04/why-is-melania-trump-suddenly-making-a-big-deal-about-the-fact-that-she-never-had-anything-at-all-to-do-with-jeffrey-epstein




Amid all the rest of the madness, the first lady of the evening held a press conference completely out of the blue yesterday, at which she robotically stumbled through a statement in which she claimed not to have ever had any relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. She attacked the very many stories linking her to Epstein (if there were a photo of myself while obviously eight miles high, posing for the cameras with Epstein and his procuress at a high-profile public event, I would make it a policy not to speak of the whole subject unless under subpoena, but whatever), denied she had been victimized by Epstein or that he had introduced her to her current husband, and, most curiously, called for public hearings for Epstein’s victims.

Nobody, including the best-connected propagandists inside the right wing scream machine, had any explanation for this development. Mrs. Trump wasn’t reacting to a new story, nor did it appear she was trying to get ahead of something that was about to break, although apparently there’s a book coming out in Merrie Olde Ynglande next week about the pervert formerly known as Prince Andrew, which contains a quote from Epstein in 2007, in which he said he had carnal knowledge of Melania before she ever met Donald Trump. But that seems like a weird thing to bring more attention to via this inexplicable stunt.

So, as Nice Guy Eddie might put it, why doesn’t somebody tells us what’s really going on here?

Which brings us to Amanda Ungaro, a Brazilian former model, and apparently a long-standing close friend of Melania and her family.

Amanda was married to wealthy Trump supporter, Paolo Zampolli, who owned a modeling agency known for bringing in young women from Eastern Europe with dubious visa arrangements. Zampolli is rumored to have secured the original visa for young Melania. He is currently on the new Kennedy Center Board of Trustees.



There is more, much more, at the link.

?si=01fQ3bcBr3UlqYf1


ScratchCat

(2,750 posts)
26. You know what this makes me think?
Fri Apr 10, 2026, 12:00 PM
5 hrs ago
although apparently there’s a book coming out in Merrie Olde Ynglande next week about the pervert formerly known as Prince Andrew, which contains a quote from Epstein in 2007, in which he said he had carnal knowledge of Melania before she ever met Donald Trump.


Russia tried to use her to get inside the Royal Family but MI6 knew she was a Russian Intelligence asset and told him(Andrew).

barbtries

(31,317 posts)
24. George Conway was on Dean Obeidallah's show
Fri Apr 10, 2026, 10:52 AM
6 hrs ago

his theory is that she knows that some really bad information is going to be revealed soon, but also said, "I don't know."

On a different stream, possibly Stephanie Miller, it was said that her standing in front of the seal of the president is a big no-no and has never happened before. it doesn't matter much to me because her husband has destroyed any residue of "respect for the office" but it only shows to me that she's fucking ignorant, everyone at the WH is fucking ignorant, they never learned about it.

i don't think she did herself any favors by pulling this stunt.

Irish_Dem

(81,579 posts)
28. Gold digging/ working girl /Russian asset is proud of herself.
Fri Apr 10, 2026, 12:34 PM
4 hrs ago

Here in the US on an illegal visa, she lied on it.
And with an anchor baby.

Sweet Rosie Red

(95 posts)
31. Maybe the oligarchs are starting to panic?
Fri Apr 10, 2026, 03:39 PM
1 hr ago

Maybe the chaos is starting to impact cashflow/trust funds/stocks/bonds, etc? Maybe they decided stirring up Epstein was a good double tap on Trump? I think they thought they could control Trump like they did Reagan, but they didn’t recognize the Cluster B psychopathy and by the time Biden left the scene, the sunk cost fallacy kicked in and they were riding the whirlwind. Maybe they thought that they could cope until half way through his term when Maybelline could take over and still legally run twice. Maybe Melania is the opening salvo of the Dump Trump Quick campaign? Maybe….Maybe…..

MW67

(184 posts)
32. Didn't she do a porn ?
Fri Apr 10, 2026, 04:38 PM
31 min ago

Softcore I think, wonder who was involved in that? Someone comes to mind, anyone got the lowdown on that?

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