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milestogo

(23,204 posts)
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 07:26 PM Jul 2025

Melania Trump 'Very Involved' In Epstein Scandal: Author

The First Lady has largely avoided the hot topic, but Trump biographer Michael Wolff suggests that she’s acting behind the scenes.

Longtime Trump biographer Michael Wolff says that First Lady Melania could be the missing link in President Donald Trump’s ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Wolff told Daily Beast Podcast host Joanna Coles that Melania was “very involved” in Epstein’s social circle and noted that this is how she met Trump.

“She’s introduced by a model agent, both of whom Trump and Epstein are involved with. She’s introduced to Trump that way. Epstein [knew] her well,” Wolff said.

Trump and the future first lady reportedly first met in September 1998 through Paolo Zampolli, the founder of ID Models, who helped Melania emigrate to the United States. Zampolli had ties to Epstein and his now-incarcerated partner in crime, Ghislaine Maxwell, Politico reported. In explosive tapes recorded by Wolff, Epstein alleged that Trump liked to “f---” his friends’ wives and first slept with Melania on his “Lolita Express.”

Since March 2025, Zampolli has served as Trump’s special representative for global partnerships. The MAGA loyalist has a giant oil painting of Trump in his $17 million Georgetown mansion. “Where does [Melania] fit into the Epstein story? Where does she fit into this, into this whole culture of models of indeterminate age?” Wolff said. “So this is another complicated dimension in this.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/melania-trump-very-involved-in-epstein-scandal-author/
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Melania Trump 'Very Involved' In Epstein Scandal: Author (Original Post) milestogo Jul 2025 OP
Shocking SheltieLover Jul 2025 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author johnnyfins Jul 2025 #2
In their world, this is romance. milestogo Jul 2025 #3
Models??? makes it all sound consensual and legal. niyad Jul 2025 #4
Yes, and the same with using "dating." When Trump told that young girl Nixie Jul 2025 #14
Exactly. Just like when he said of ivanka, "If she weren't my daughter, I niyad Jul 2025 #15
Yes, Ivanka is a perfect example of this code word. We have the accompanying visuals Nixie Jul 2025 #18
He did not just look her up and down, he felt her up and down. niyad Jul 2025 #19
+1000++, Absolutely! Nixie Jul 2025 #20
Well, didn't she come out the country on an Epstein visa? jls4561 Jul 2025 #5
Clutching pearls. Oh no, not Melanie. jrthin Jul 2025 #6
I call Melanoma "pay per view" cuz she charges him a tidy sum to be seen with him. I read that somewhere and I CTyankee Jul 2025 #7
The thought that these two scumbags are our President and First Lady Diamond_Dog Jul 2025 #8
It really is horrifying. 3catwoman3 Jul 2025 #10
I know people that thing she is the greatest first lady we ever had Norbert Jul 2025 #13
At best, a rent-a-FLOTUS. n/t Hugin Jul 2025 #17
Maybe she's lying low to write her "Tell All" book before Ghislaine beats her to it. Ping Tung Jul 2025 #9
THIS is why he's losing his shit. She's going to take him to the cleaners. Maru Kitteh Jul 2025 #11
Just to add.. I saw Michael Wolf on Cha Jul 2025 #12
Anyone have the soft core handcuffed on a private jet... Hugin Jul 2025 #16

Response to milestogo (Original post)

Nixie

(18,111 posts)
14. Yes, and the same with using "dating." When Trump told that young girl
Sun Jul 27, 2025, 08:29 AM
Jul 2025

coming down the escalator he would be “dating” her in 10 years, that obviously means the F word. He doesn’t date people.

niyad

(134,035 posts)
15. Exactly. Just like when he said of ivanka, "If she weren't my daughter, I
Sun Jul 27, 2025, 10:11 AM
Jul 2025

would want to. . . ."date" her." We all knew that was NOT the four-letter word he meant.

Nixie

(18,111 posts)
18. Yes, Ivanka is a perfect example of this code word. We have the accompanying visuals
Sun Jul 27, 2025, 12:52 PM
Jul 2025

of him looking her up and down on stage at his convention, then patting her butt. “Date” my daughter, no, that’s not what he would do.

niyad

(134,035 posts)
19. He did not just look her up and down, he felt her up and down.
Sun Jul 27, 2025, 01:17 PM
Jul 2025

Having seen more than a few bizarre pics of them when she was a teen, it seems pretty obvious that there was at least psychological, if not actual physical, incest going on.

CTyankee

(68,488 posts)
7. I call Melanoma "pay per view" cuz she charges him a tidy sum to be seen with him. I read that somewhere and I
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 07:59 PM
Jul 2025

believe it. She is totally transactional in this marriage. Once he leaves or gets heaved out of office she will be done and on her way. And of course she won't join him at the White House. I always wondered what she had going on in her private life. The way she looked at the PM of Canada was lascivious.

Diamond_Dog

(41,057 posts)
8. The thought that these two scumbags are our President and First Lady
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 08:49 PM
Jul 2025

just sickens and embarrasses me.

Norbert

(7,853 posts)
13. I know people that thing she is the greatest first lady we ever had
Sun Jul 27, 2025, 07:27 AM
Jul 2025

The kkkult literally is not interested in the f*cking details.

Ping Tung

(4,370 posts)
9. Maybe she's lying low to write her "Tell All" book before Ghislaine beats her to it.
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 09:08 PM
Jul 2025

There's cash in them there pages.

Maru Kitteh

(32,010 posts)
11. THIS is why he's losing his shit. She's going to take him to the cleaners.
Sun Jul 27, 2025, 02:55 AM
Jul 2025

One way or the other.

I love it.

Once Melanoma is thoroughly disgraced in this country maybe she can take 80% of his money and go haunt some other continent. Or better yet, she can go to jail, too.

Cha

(320,616 posts)
12. Just to add.. I saw Michael Wolf on
Sun Jul 27, 2025, 03:52 AM
Jul 2025

Meidas Touch and he said he had the Tapes.

Also that no one seemed interested.. that was maybe a month or two ago.

I asked the OP if he had a body guard?

Hugin

(38,001 posts)
16. Anyone have the soft core handcuffed on a private jet...
Sun Jul 27, 2025, 10:14 AM
Jul 2025

Photos handy? Mikey Johnson? Anyone?

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