This story is being framed as “Apropos of nothing, Melania Trump called a press conference to announce that she was never friends with Jeffrey Epstein.” While she did call the presser on what was seemingly a random Thursday, there is an extensive backstory. For one, Melania and her husband have been linked to Epstein in the public consciousness for years now. Two, Melania and Jeffrey Epstein absolutely knew each other, socialized together and Mel might have even known Epstein before she met Trump. Three, Melania threatened to sue Michael Wolff because he’s repeatedly claimed, written and insinuated that Melania has extensive Epstein ties and that Epstein likely introduced her to Donald Trump (Wolff actually sued Melania over her threats to sue him). So what is Melania saying about all of this now? Well…
Melania Trump summoned reporters to the White House Thursday afternoon to give a surprising statement about Jeffrey Epstein. She said she had no relationship with him, was not a victim of his and had no knowledge of his crimes. She said she wanted to clear “my good name” and address rumors about the origin story of how she met her husband, the president of the United States.
“The lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today,” Mrs. Trump said. She talked about “numerous fake images and statements about Epstein and me” that “have been percolating for years now.”
It was not clear why she chose to speak out now, or to what reports she was referring. A spokesperson for Mrs. Trump said that the president was aware that his wife was going to make the statement. The first lady ended her appearance by calling on Congress to give a hearing to the victims.
She started her remarks by recalling the era when she met her husband, and, apparently, Mr. Epstein. “I’ve never been friends with Epstein. Donald and I were invited to the same parties as Epstein from time to time, since overlapping in social circles is common in New York City,” Mrs. Trump explained to the small group of stunned reporters arrayed in the entrance hall of the White House. The first time she ever “crossed paths with Epstein” was in 2000, she said, “at an event Donald and I attended together.”
“Epstein did not introduce me to Donald Trump,” she said. “I met my husband by chance. This initial encounter with my husband is documented in my book.”
The encounter she was referring to is a story she has told over many years about meeting Mr. Trump in 1998 at the Kit Kat Club. She has always said that it was Paolo Zampolli, an Italian modeling agent, who introduced her to Mr. Trump. Mr. Zampolli did business with Mr. Epstein and appears several times in the Epstein files.
Mrs. Trump’s name appeared in the Epstein files, too — another matter she evidently wanted to clear up on Thursday. In a 2002 email written to Ghislaine Maxwell, a woman named “Melania” wrote to Ms. Maxwell to praise a profile of Mr. Epstein in New York magazine. Ms. Maxwell called “Melania” “Sweet pea,” and “Melania” signed her email “Love.” On Thursday, the first lady addressed her correspondence with Ms. Maxwell: “To be clear, I never had a relationship with Epstein or his accomplice Maxwell. My email reply to Maxwell cannot be categorized as anything more than casual correspondence.”
[From The New York Times & transcribed from video]
I’m including the video below, she’s mostly just reading off of a prepared statement, and I would assume her lawyers probably vetted it? It would be crazy if her lawyers did not look it over. I don’t really know what to say here, honestly. Do I think Mel is lying? Sure. Do I think that she’s some sort of honey trap installed by Epstein and/or Vladimir Putin? Eh. One thing I’ve always believed about Melania’s early days in New York is that she never got much modeling work and she quickly realized that her best career option was to land a wealthy husband and give that a go. I don’t think anyone forced Melania in Donald’s path, I think she put herself in his path because she was trying to land someone like him. That doesn’t preclude her from having some kind of relationship with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell either.
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A lying sack of sh-t, just like her husband.
Totally. 😒
I hope she says that under oath before a Congressional hearing! Facts will prove otherwise!
I am enjoying the fact that she’s raised the Epstein story back up into the news cycle, though, after everything that’s been done to squash it.
LOL right?!? She just wanted to remind everyone I guess???
What in the actual fuck.
So many potential motives. Is the war Trump started to kill this story going so badly Melania collected a huge bonus by putting it back in the news?
Did a reporter call to confirm something that is absolutely true and she is trying to get in front of it?
Or is she protecting her modeling “agent” Paola Zampolli from charges of abuse of power or maybe sex trafficking? Zampolli’s agency was operating in parallel to Jean-Luc Bernal’s and both lead straight to Epstein.
What a tangled web we weave.
I wonder if Barron is on the edges of this, b/c she’s also a *very* protective mother — & Barron is no longer in that cloistered private school environment/echo chamber. If he’s still @ NYU, he might be receiving some blowback about the war–> the files–> his mom’s “modeling” career. The mention of photos being altered could be a reference to a resurgence of the nudes from that time to troll him.
Remember during the 1st admin / 2019 when she unexpectedly came out publicly against vaping, advocating stricter regulations, especially among the youth. SM posts speculated she may have found a vaping materials among her son’s belongings
Scroll down learning about Paolo Zampolli nasty divorce from his ex-model immigrant wife & her SM posts from ICE detention [TIL, lol]. Agree that’s likely the primary driving motivator, & perhaps secondary is all this infiltrating her son’s social orbit.
I don’t see melanoma as a protective mother. She’s trying to protect her grifter son’s ability to monetize, and doesn’t want him shunted aside like Tiffany.
Same! It also makes me think something big’s about to drop. (fingers crossed)
Obv something is about to pop and she got ahead of it. She is going to divorce TFG as soon as he’s out of the presidency. She made $24m from the movie and, with a potential divorce settlement, is setting the stage for her divorce.
Ditto! Definite distraction tactic. Plus there are allegations that not only did she know Epstein, she slept with Epstein before she met the Felon. And the first time she slept with the Felon was on Epstein’s plane.
Certainly seems like distancing herself from Donald and laying the groundwork for something. I assume she has her own lawyers.
Her attorneys must be unaware of the Streisand Effect.
Incredible to call a press conference to bring attention to this (especially when obviously most media outlets will publish the story with the photo of her standing next to him, ffs!).
I think she wanted to get ahead of something that may come out as a result of Michael Wolff’s reporting, and their pending lawsuit. This is sort of convoluted, but stay with me: Melania had her lawyer threaten Michael Wolff with a $1B lawsuit for defamation, because he was reporting on her connections to Epstein. As a result of the threat, Michael Wolff filed suit against her in New York, arguing that she was trying to infringe on his First Amendment right to free speech. If there is no connection, why is she threatening the guy who says there is one?
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/author-michael-wolff-files-suit-melania-trump-jeffrey-epstein-threat-rcna239257
If she said victims deserve a hearing. I appreciate that. But yes, needed to marry rich American man. Not a new strategy.
Please don’t appreciate that, as what she’s done here is put the onus BACK on the victims, who have, ad nauseam, told their stories. She did NOT call for the men to be prosecuted or questioned, nor any action at all. She lobs it back to the victims, and that was by design. She’s lowbrow gutter trash, out only to save herself, and I can assure you she would shove every one of those victims down Ivana’s death stairs to clear herself.
And she could have called on the DOJ and her husband’s administration to further investigate. Or urged Pam Bondi to testify before congress. etc.
The issue in all of this is not that the victims aren’t willing to tell their stories (and even if they weren’t, they have good reasons to feel that way.)
Yes-and, specify, under oath. So any small detail that they might inadvertently get wrong, they could be charged with perjury. Melania’s statement here—not under oath! If she wants survivors speaking under oath, then she should damn well give this same garbage statement UNDER OATH.
Exactly, Jonesy! She comes out all hot and huffy about her reputation being besmirched. But SHE is not under oath and says the victims should be. It’s implying that they lied even though she is to be taken at her word. She is disgusting.
It’s mind boggling this woman thinks she has a “good name” to protect. Then again the Dumps try to market themselves as “successful businesspeople too.”🙄
One of her advisors (?) issued this statement “The lies must stop. It is time for the public and media to focus on her incredible achievements as First Lady, the lives she has positively impacted, and her commitment to our nation.”
What “incredible achievements” is he talking about I wonder. Can someone shed light on this?
‘Commitment to our nation?’ I laughed in my coffee…
How about being committed to staying in the US versus being deported back to Slovenia. What valuable skillset did she have that allowed her to be eligible to stay in the US?
Oh what a crock of shit, Melania hasn’t done a smidgen of work for our benefit in either of Trumps terms in office. She doesn’t live in DC and is in on the grift like the rest of this vile family. She doesn’t give a damn about anyone but herself and her strange strange son.
Most Haunted Christmas Decor 4 years in a row? Most Disgusting Fashion Statement with that fucking “I don’t care” jacket? Hell, standing next to her husband in his soiled Depends is pretty impressive in itself.
Don’t forget about that dumb movie nobody watched.
She should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize along with her war criminal husband.
Yes, her achievements truly are incredible as in, incredible to think this rude, nasty grifter achieved anything
I’m not exaggerating when I say I cannot think of a single thing she’s “achieved” as First Lady??
These people live in a parallel universe, because no-one was paying attention to her.
This press conference has the world WTF in an already messed up situation.
“Epstein did not introduce me to Donald Trump,” she said. “I met my husband by chance. This initial encounter with my husband is documented in my book.”
Well, that solves everything. She said it in her book. Case closed.
It’s also cited on Wikipedia so we know this is truth.
Lol her source is herself! You can’t make this up.
Under oath or it don’t count Monster Mel!
Her modeling “agent” invited her to a party at the Kit Kat club where he “happened” to introduce her to Trump. What a meet cute.
I have to correct you. Zampolli is her “modeling” agent. He was her agent of some kind lol, just not for modeling.
How romantic, said no one!
“That pimp Epstein did not introduce me to Trump, this other pimp , who worked with Epstein, did at a sex party we all attended.”
I’m surprised she didn’t give the Amazon link to order “her book”. Product placement is everything. Grifters gotta grift.
@Anare, lmao. I’m surprised they don’t have links and QR codes to enable their idiot followers to easily keep giving them money on all official WH communications.
This was just bonkers and social media went bonkers too. Then there was a post by her husband on his TS social media and that was insane. Supposedly he did not know she was going on air. Which I find very difficult to believe. Set aside the pictures of her with Epstein and her husband because those are not fake so she knew him and so did her husband and they seemed more then just acquaintances. Then there was a post by a model that has or was detained by ICE and called her out on X – it feels like nothing is off the table as far as to WHY she went on air with this statement. I just can’t believe this is the reality coming from the Executive Office and his private life,
The model detained by ice is the wife of Paolo Zampolli who was Melania’s modeling “agent” and long-time Trump friend who has some sort of fake job in the administration that involves grifting for Trump. Also, Zampolli’s wife arrived in the US from Brazil via the Lolita Express. You can’t make this sh*t up.
The model, Amanda Ungaro is Brazilian and was married to and had a child with Zampolli, Melania’s modelling “agent”. They recently divorced and were involved in a nasty custody dispute so Zampolli asked if Trump could get ICE to deport her which they did. She is now threatening to spill everything she knows.
There is also a booking coming out, or just came out about Andrew and Fergie and apparently there is a passage in it that claims Mel was Epstein’s gf before she even met Trump.
I don’t know if either has anything to do with her statement yesterday. It could just be that the war in Iran is going so badly they need to bring back Epstein as a distraction…..
LOL
It’s come out now that Paola Zompolli just filled a tell all interview with Spain’s El Pais, after saying on Twitter she was bringing everyone down because she has nothing to lose.
I dont want to thread jack so dont yell at me MODs, but here it is:
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/amanda-ungaro-melania-trump-claims-1791217
it’s pretty interesting…..
‘I have nothing left to lose in my life,’ Ungaro wrote in one post. ‘I will tear down the entire system — be careful with me b**.’ In a follow-up, she added: ‘I will tear down your corrupt system, even if it’s the last thing I do in my life. I will go all the way — I am not afraid.’ She also posted: ‘Maybe you should be afraid of what I know… of who you are, and who your husband is.’
Fun fact that I learned from my ex-MAGA father-in-law (and if I can just brag a bit, I was the one who converted him! First time we met, I ignored that rule about never discussing politics in polite conversation and went off, lol. My husband had an “oh fuck…” look on his face the whole time, but it worked!): for quite some time during Trump’s first term, whenever Fox News needed a photo of Melania, they would frequently use a cropped version of that top photo with Epstein and Maxwell. I don’t know if some intern was being shady or just lazy, but either way, pretty funny.
She is an old pro@#$%$#@ who knows the free ride is coming to an end. She, like paedrew and mango, partcipated in sex crimes to commit treason and financial crimes. Mango is declining rapidly and he is intentionally not naming a succesor, so no one will be around to protect her soon. She is scurrying like a roach to avoid the fallout. The skinny white women in cultists orbits tend to fall first. She will end up in prison faster than any white man in mango’s orbit. Wonder what spooked her? Hackers ready to reveal her honeytrapping, treasonous background? Discovery in the Wolff lawsuit will be divine. She is loathesome, lazy and a liar. Lock ’em all up.
ITA – I think she’s getting ahead of something thats about to break. Now that Bondi is gone are there more files that the DOJ will drop?!?!
I really do not see more files dropping. He is still controlling everything admin wise – outside of his administration it’s out of his control. We all knew if he got a second chance at this office he learned his lesson and career government employees were replaced by yes men/women.
For the life of me, I cannot wrap my brain around what she is trying to pull with this stunt. Smoke and mirrors is the name of the game – there are so many theories. BUT I doubt he did not know she was going to do this. But, I never would have thought I would see this timeline either.
Maybe another country will drop more files? They’re all out there in various places, I’m sure…
That’s the theory but it begs the question of why we haven’t heard about the theoretical story about to drop. Usually there’s some advanced notice that the broader media picks up on.
@TN what do you mean he hasn’t named a successor? Like for President? That will be JD Vance, the Vice President
Mango wants the Republikkkans party to fall into chaos without him and isn’t grooming a succesor to replace him. He is a messiah figure to the cult of magats. Cults splinter when their fake god departs. Vance is a chubby little creep who lied copiously in his supposed autobiography. Mango’s administration is the most corrupt in our history. Vance won’t even be able to tread water when mango leaves this mortal coil because the knives will be out. Vance will be president if mango leaves this mortal coil this term, but he will never have the backing and support of anyone except the freaky tech bros.
JD Vance has absolutely zero chance of winning a presidential election because of the albatross around his neck that is the Iran war. He’ll be virtually unable to distance himself from the most unpopular war of my lifetime and I love that for him.
My guess is that MTG, Tucker Carlson or someone else from the America First movement will fill that void.
My opinion on this is that it’s distraction from the distraction!! She is a liar!! The Iran war was a distraction from Epstein files and that backfired stupendously!! So now they had Melania lie about her involvement with Epstein to distract from the war! We are living in a bizarro world!!!
I saw a great meme that said the war in Iran is going so bad that they’re talking about the Epstein files.
Like that’s how she got her Epstein, I mean Einstein visa…
This is such a Streisand effect moment.
Girl never wanted to be a political wife or do any kind of service.
Also there’s this great clip going around where her accent 20 years ago was better than it is now. And Trump introduces her as being Austrian.
I think I also saw some of the top military personnel have also been removed or they left due to not wanting to carry out orders – something about war crimes and not wanting to face a tribunal, Not sure how true that is because there is so much to keep up with.
@Normades: the statement was written by someone else obviously, and she mispronounced some of the words. She’s supposedly been an English speaker for years. And, yeah, all I could think was Streisand effect which I don’t think she’s ever heard of.
Love that comic.
Something is about to drop & this is her attempt to get in front of it. That is all.
If something isn’t about to drop, then she just did a real Barbara Streisand.
I agree totally with this. I think something big is coming. Also, she said she wanted to clear “her good name” and I almost fell off the couch laughing. Oh well, you do you and “Be best” dear Melania.
I believe this also.
Michael Wolff said that his countersuit against her lawsuit allows him to subpoena her and Trump to testify under oath about their Epstein connections. So I wonder if that is progressing. Maybe she thinks she can get the court of public opinion on her side in advance of refusing to respond to a subpoena, which of course she will refuse to respond to. She seems to think the power of her office is enough to kill these stories but yep, Streisand effect. If anyone wants to find it, there exists an old British GQ article with her laying around mostly naked or posing in skimpy underwear and gobs of gold-digger jewelry on Trump’s jet before they were married. First Lady material, definitely NOT.
Another possible reason is that Paolo Zampoll, the modeling agent who says he recruited Melania to America and signed the papers for her Einstein visa, is a scum bag who is using ICE to deport his baby mama. She’s been tweeting at Melania from detention, reminding her that she knows everything. That they were friends as models and that she stayed in touch with Melanià’s parents
Karoline Leavitt’s brother also used ICE to deport his baby mama. These people are beyond vile.
Oh, that’s very interesting. How stupid (and absolutely vile) of them to try to deport her. Plus getting an Einstein visa was always something that needed more attention.
This is 100% it – his ex has basically said she’s going scorched earth, and Melania knows she’ll be caught in the crossfire. This is CYA, plain and simple.
I just read Einstein visa as “Epstein visa” which I think is the more plausible story about how Melania got here.
I have no idea what’s going on here. Yes there have been rumors and more about Melania and Epstein, but those have been going around for years. Why this press conference now? Why an aired statement and not just a written one? Does she think people will find it more credible if she says it out loud to cameras?
I dont know what she was doing with Epstein and his associates. But we know she knew him, we know she knew one of his associates (is ‘Zampolli introduced me to Trump and not Epstein” really a winning argument?), and we know her background is….hazy….and that she came to the US under dubious pretenses.
so what does all that mean? I have no idea.
Her “agent” Zampolli got ICE to deport his ex wife Amanda Ungaro and Ungaro has put out some tweets saying she knows the whole story regarding Epstein and Melania.
It certainly rattled Melania enough to do this press conference.
Oh I sure hope she spills the beans!!!
The impression I always got is that Melania was one of those models who were hired to be at parties that rich men would attend. Simple as that. Considering that Donald Trump and Epstein were very good friends, means that Melania did socialise with Esptein and Maxwell on a regular basis. So she’s lying about her association with Epstein. I do wonder what prompted her to speak out? Is some new information going to be released or is she attempting to distract the public from Trump’s failed attack on Iran?
I’ve seen two ideas that both make sense, but are conflicting.
The first one is that her husband made her do the press conference because he wants out of the Iran mess, and 🇮🇱 has yanked his chain about what they have on him. He knows that they will release real things. It makes sense from the perspective of this is exactly the kind of thing a narc with dementia would do and expect to work.
The second one that makes sense is the one about Zampollis ex tweeting everything she knows. She was 17 when she arrived on the Lolita express, she and her husband were personally involved with the same crowd, they sat at the table with the newly elected president and his wife at the first inauguration ball. This is also the dumbest way to handle that, because I hadn’t seen reporting on the specifics of the tweets before now.
Both are good explanations, and it’s really hard to overestimate how stupid these people are. That’s been my biggest hindrance in watching what happens, they keep doing things so stupid it didn’t even occur to me.
Hope Zampolli’s ex is watching her back and stays away from long flights of steps and high windows.
It’s my understanding that the children communicated that she was involved in the abuse and around when it happened. She’s lying and is trying to protect herself. The rats are jumping ship and turning against each other. The next administration better prosecute everyone including her and make the trials public.
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I admit, I did not expect the rumor that she was around during the rapes. That would be astounding. I know she’s trash, but did not think she was that awful.
That would make sense, tho, in why she is saying that the survivors should testify under oath. Then she can immediately attack any discrepancies in their statements and go for criminal charges.
They all make me sick. None of them ever willing to go under oath for their big statements of innocence at press conferences, but they pick apart statements of people under oath (like Cassidy Hutchinson).
Isn’t there an ongoing lawsuit between her and Michael Wolff? ….could be discovery / exhibits / grand jury testimony were leaked? …there are issues with publishing things under seal. But the era of social media has made self-censorship in legacy media seem quaint. It’s prejudicial to the trial, if there ever is a trial, but she’s already been convicted in the court of public opinion, so her laywers’ arguments that the trial should therefore be called off would likely not satisfy a judge. Is this her attempt to head off more unsavoury allegations? ….either way, the technicality of being introduced by an Italian model agency impresario vs Epstein himself are not material. Epstein had a number of procurers and procuresses working for him in addition to Maxwell, like that Swedish lady who dangled the latest married-in Princess.
I agree with most of what you said. There are discovery and exhibits in a civil case, but grand juries are only for criminal.
To clear “my good name”. Lady, please! Yeah, this seemed random, but CNN did publish a poll yesterday showing that she is the most disliked First Lady in recent history. So, there’s that. Beyond her motivation, I had the feeling she was throwing the survivors under the bus. Apparently, they did too. No one from the regime has yet to appear under oath before Congress, and it’s beginning to look like Pam Bondi was fired to make an end run around a congressional subpoena. Yet, here comes Melania, not volunteering to testify herself, but to suggest that the survivors testify under oath, as if many of them have not already given sworn statements about their experiences with Epstein and Maxwell. Indeed, some of them testified in Maxwell’s trial. So, this little performance made me kinda sick. I believe that Melania not only was close to Epstein but that after bringing her here, not on an Einstein visa but an Epstein visa, he trafficked her to Trump. And that’s the very unromantic story of their meeting that she is obviously desperate to not have confirmed.
I’m going to go out on a limb and be hopeful. Maybe she was told that her disgusting husband’s days are very numbered now, so she’s out there getting ahead of protecting herself. Once he’s gone, you think the Republicans are going to give a shit about protecting the Trump family from the public really learning what’s in those files?
I’ve been seeing stuff from a creator called Epistemic Crisis, who works with elderly patients, and he’s saying now with his whole chest he thinks we’re 2 weeks away from the 🍊 one being so bad off he either actually passes way, or can’t be propped up anymore.
I think his last doctor visits over Easter weekend where he wasn’t seen until he did a weird super slow drive around DC w’re really bad and everyone in his family plus Susie Wiles knows.
I am incredibly out of my depth speculating, but it seems unthinkable that the various “they” who are benefitting by continuing to keep the murderous dwindling sundowner in office aren’t working harder to prop him up, manage him, and/or sliding someone into the spot to either hold cover or take over. But I am no expert on creating or maintaining authoritarianism. A nine-pound cat is the boss of me.
I don’t know what to think.
On the one hand, I am hoping that something big is about to drop — that maybe another country, like Iran, is threatening to drop the files, implicating Melania and Donald.
On the other hand, I am exhausted by hope … hope that this nightmare will end, hope that I’ll be able to drink the Champagne that’s been chilling in my wine fridge for months, hope that this administration finally gets its just desserts.
The only thing I know is that Melania is a vicious, vacuous person who deserves her monstrous husband.
From the Daily Beast: “There Can Only Be One Reason for Melania Talking Epstein. It’s Not Good”
“There is speculation that she may have raised the issue in anticipation of the next stages in a legal matter in which she is involved. But, beyond that, since she could not exactly commandeer the White House and use it as a stage for a personal statement without the approval and support of the president’s own staff, a larger question becomes, why would they go along with it? . . .
“That Melania then went on to call for Congressional hearings at which the victims of Epstein could be heard must not have sat well with a president and those around him who have been working like crazy to stop just that from happening. So, there is clearly more to this story than meets the eye.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/there-can-only-be-one-reason-for-melania-talking-epstein-its-not-good/
“I had no relationship with JE” = I f*cked him but we weren’t dating
“He didn’t intro me and Don” = one of his buddies did
“We attended the same parties” =Epstein parties
“I want to clear my good name”= she isn’t gonna be protected much longer once IT happens and she thinks we’re dumb af
“I’m not a victim” =I’m a perpetrator
Just what I got out of it 🙃
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Her “good name” when the whole world has seen her naked. Okay …
The lady doth protest too much, methinks
This nonsense combined with Ivanka’s sudden reappearance to give the NY Post a teary interview about how much she has suffered as a poor little, thieving, corrupt rich girl tells me the Trump women are circling wagons around something. Both are rumored to have been involved in the trafficking. And no, Melania, telling your tired story of which pimp introduced you to your husband doesn’t change the facts that a pimp introduced you to your husband AND all of you hurt little girls
Where did she give the speech / where is she even “working” since the East Wing lies in rubble?
Bringing up Epstein to save herself from something is odd but seems about right. “Met him by chance” is just a dumb lie.
Nothing says innocence like holding a press conference to deny a friendship, when no one even asked. Makes me think they’re trying to get ahead of something?
Melania signed “Love” in her email to Maxwell. That really struck me. Personally, I would never sign “Love” on correspondence to someone who is what Melania calls a “casual acquaintance ”. Melania doesn’t seem like the type to throw out the “Loves”. In fact, she seems quite undemonstrative. She rarely even smiles.
Me thinks her husband or the people from his camp, threatened her. With something. But what?? She’s definitely trying to get ahead of the story to come, obviously.
This thing is getting more and more more creepy ‘exciting’
This relates to tweets made by Amanda Ungaro threatening to reveal the real story behind her connection with Epstein. The fact she reacted this way really makes it looks like Ungaro knows something n
Yes that’s what I think. But I am also so sick of people threatening to spill. Just DO IT!
Yes! Yes, please, Amanda, we’re all begging you, tell your story! Not in little tweets here & there, but contact Rep. Ro Khanna; he’ll make it happen.
Makes me wonder if something is up with Baron. He and her parents seem like the only people she’d want to protect and since that Amanda person mentioned her parents… hmmm.
She could give 2 shits about T , she did not sign up for this.
Also I would be real scared if I was that Amanda person but she must have thought she was safer if she threatened to spill the beans
Hmmm, that’s an interesting theory.
Perhaps a clue to the timing:
A lady named Amanda Ungaro tweeted this: “ Hello Melania, I was around you for 20 years. You knew l was inside ICE, and you know what hurts after all this time? I stayed close to your family — your mother and your father — not because of you, but because of them, at events and everything else. So shut your mouth when speaking about me. Because I will expose everything | know.”
Who’s Amanda Ungaro? She is the mother of Paolo Zampolli’s child. Paolo allegedly asked Trump to have ice deport her. And they did.
Zampolli founded a modeling agency, IDModel Management, and became a close friend of Trump. Zampolli sponsored Melania’s visa and she moved into Zampolli’s building at Zeckendorf Towers. He introduced her to Trump at a 1998 party. In March 2025, Zampolli was named “special envoy for global partnerships”, whatever that means.
Epstein patronized Zampolli’s modeling agency and was a partner in his 2004 bid to purchase Elite Model Management. His name appears several times in the Files. In one 2011 email, Epstein warned an Emirati businessman that “zampoli [sic] is trouble”. Zampolli was named as one of four partners in Maxwell’s charity, the TerraMar Project.
In 2002, 32 year old Paolo met 17 year old Brazilian model Ungaro who had been brought to New York on Epstein’s “Lolita Express” from Paris (her agent at the time was Jean-Luc Brunel, an alleged procurer for Epstein who “committed suicide”). They attended the first Inauguration, and sat at Melania’s table during dinner. They split in 2018, and permanently separated in 2021 with Zampolli claiming that a marriage never occurred. She was deported after he allegedly asked a senior ICE official to detain her in an effort to gain custody of their son.
Oh damn, thanks so much for the facts, dates, and names. It’s the only way to combat these Trumpian grievances and lies.👍
I wan to know how she got over here in the first place……no way in hell she deserved that Einstein Visa.
If Melania is suppose to be a well known model where are the photos of her wearing couture or at least wearing clothes? Seriously, I would like to see some validation of her professional modeling career?
So…Melania, although lying through her veneers, is admitting she met trump while he was still married to marla. They are all such pieces of 💩.