LEMON DROP | BOMBSHELL! Michael Wolff on Melania Trump, Hunter Biden, & Jeffrey Epstein
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Author Michael Wolff joins us. Michael, thanks for joining. How are you?
I'm good. How about you?
I'm doing very well.
What is the legal threat from Melania Trump to Hunter Biden about?
So, Michael, what is going on with this? Melania Trump is now threatening to sue Hunter Biden for something that you wrote or reported. And let me just play this, because this is on your social media, which has just become, you know, I think it's fascinating what you're doing on social media. But here is a soundbite of you from social media talking about Donald Trump suing, excuse me, Melania Trump suing Hunter Biden, possibly.
Hunter Biden has received the latest letter from Melania Trump or her lawyers or her husband's lawyers threatening a $1 billion lawsuit for linking her with Jeffrey Epstein. This follows letters, similar letters to the Daily Beast and to James Carville. This is in part based on remarks that I made about Donald Trump and Melania Trump and Jeffrey Epstein knowing each other. And that is patently true. There are many many photographs of them together. They shared a circle of acquaintances. They, even at the party that Melania Trump describes where she met Donald Trump, that was a party hosted by a modeling agent by the name of Apollo Zampolli, who was known by Trump and by Epstein. And in fact, Epstein was at this party.
Okay. And then you go on to explain more about that. This was a social circle, right? And now Melania, I guess, is upset because Hunter Biden is now saying that they met that she met Donald Trump through Jeffrey Epstein, but not suing you or threatening you to retract anything. So what is going on here?
Well, I, I mean, I, I don't, I don't know. I mean, they're there. She's suing pretty much every well, I was going to say publication was not really publication. I mean, it's, I mean, podcasts, she, they, they could sue me why they're not suing me. I, I don't, I don't know, but clearly the effort is to intimidate anybody who is connecting Epstein and Melania, or for that matter, because Trump has sued the Wall Street Journal, who connected him directly with with Epstein. So this is a this is just an intimidation tactic. They're trying to kill this story. in any way they can. And this is, I suppose, their way to do it. And it's having some success. People are afraid of these lawsuits and they're willing to capitulate, it would seem, instead of, although Hunter Biden is not capitulating, playing this to the end and taking depositions from Melania Trump and
and Donald Trump, which is not something I would imagine they would be eager or willing to participate in.
You bring up a very good point. And you make the same assessment in your social media posts where you say, you know, this discovery thing would be very interesting if they actually went through with this. Now, I'm not sure if they're suing or threatening to sue because Donald Trump has said, as we put up in the Hill headline, that he is willing to let Melania Trump use his lawyers, I guess, if it comes to that.
What evidence does Michael Wolff cite linking Melania, Donald Trump, and Jeffrey Epstein?
I guess basically borrow the lawyers that have been working hard for him. So Hunter Biden has received this letter. And Hunter Biden is saying this about a retraction and an apology here.
In my hand is a legal demand letter addressed to Mr. Hunter Biden from the First Lady of the United States, demanding a retraction of Channel 5's video called Hunter Biden Returns, in which Mr. Biden here makes some speculative comments about the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein, Melania Trump, and Donald Trump.
Okay, well, they knew each other well. They spent an enormous time together. According to his biographer, it is that Jeffrey Epstein introduced Melania. That's how Melania and the First Lady and the President met.
Really? Epstein made the intro?
Yeah, according to Michael Wolff. And so I only can go by what people are saying, and I don't know.
He didn't make these claims out of nowhere. They come from another journalist named Michael Wolff, who is a biographer that actually spoke to Jeffrey Epstein. But now here we are, and I've got a billion-dollar document in my hands because...
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:13–0:19
2
What is the legal threat from Melania Trump to Hunter Biden about?
0:19–4:11
3
What evidence does Michael Wolff cite linking Melania, Donald Trump, and Jeffrey Epstein?
4:11–13:50
4
Why would a billion-dollar defamation demand be used to intimidate reporters and podcasters?
13:50–17:29
5
Could discovery force Donald Trump and Melania to testify about Epstein connections?
17:29–23:47
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