Oh my. Melania Trump is rushing to

federal court over an Epstein files

claim. You will recall that author

Michael Wolf sued Melania Trump claiming

that she was trying to threaten his

first amendment rights to discuss what

he's alleged about Melania and Jeffrey

Epstein, which she claims is false. She

threatened to sue Wolfe for defamation.

Wol said, "Your threats constitute a

violation of my first amendment rights

under a law in New York called the

antislap statute in New York." Wolf has

been trying to serve Melania with the

lawsuit that he filed against her in New

York state court, but Melania just

rushed to federal court to remove the

lawsuit filed by Wolf against her in New

York state court to federal court

because she alleges that she is a

resident and citizen of Florida and that

because she's from Florida and because

Wolf is from New York and because the

amount in controversy in this lawsuit is

over $75,000 that Wolf is seeking

against Melania. Melania argues that his

lawsuit needs to be heard in federal

court. Notably, for now, Melania has not

counters sued Michael Wolf for

defamation, although she says in her

removal request to federal court that

what he said is false. All she is saying

is that this case should not be heard in

state court. It should be held in

federal court and heard in federal court

only. Let me pull up her federal court

filing. Um, but first let me share with

you these photos right here. Melania

Trump, Prince Andrew, Epstein associate

Gwendelyn Beck and Epstein at a party in

Mara Lago, Palm Beach in the early

2000s. Here's another photo right here.

Donald Trump, Melania, Epstein, and

Guilain Maxwell. Now clearly um there

was some sort of relationship between

Melania Epstein and Gileain in that they

clearly knew each other, right? I mean

they seem to be very friendly in these

photos. Now what uh is being alleged by

Michael Wolf is something more than that

and Melania is denying that. Um, but

Wolf is saying, "You want to sue me for

defamation because you think my

accusations against you and talking

about your relationship with Epstein is

false? You think I'm lying? Then if

you're going to sue me, sue me, but

don't threaten and try to chill my First

Amendment speech and demand an apology

from me." Um, when he says what he's

saying is protected by the First

Amendment and he claims what he says is

true. So, let's just take a look at

Melania's filing. This is in New York

federal court for the Southern District

of New York. And it's notable, right,

because the Southern District of New

York is also where Gileain Maxwell was

ultimately uh prosecuted and convicted.

The Southern District of New York or

where charges were brought against

Epstein. And the Southern District of

New York has those 1.2 to 5 million

additional records um regarding the

Epstein files that the Justice

Department just claimed that they

identified. Remember though, we at the

Midas Touch Network um were the first to

break that story and say back in 2020,

the Southern District of New York claims

that it has uh 20 claims that it had 1.2

million records back then. So why is the

DOJ only talking about a few hundred,000

records right now? Let's take a look at

Melania's filing notice of removal. It's

called, please take notice that pursuant

to the removal statute, the first lady

of the United States, Melania Trump, as

defendant hereby removes the above

caption action from the Supreme Court of

the state of New York. That's their

lower level court. It's confusing. In

New York, the Supreme Court is basically

like their superior court. It's their

trial court. And she wants to move it to

the Southern District of New York, the

federal court. So again, just to remind

you of the uh uh the the posture, the

jurisdictional posture here, Michael

Wolf sues Melania alleging that his

First Amendment rights to report on her

have been violated because Melania was

sending letters to him threatening to

sue Wolf for defamation. And Wol says

what he was saying was protected speech.

Melania said that if you don't retract

your stories and issue an apology, she

said that she was going to sue him for

$1 billion. She gave him a deadline for

a retraction and an apology. And Wolfe

said, "I have nothing to apologize for.

I am reporting, including my opinion

speech, including on facts, including um

and you're mischaracterizing

what these articles are saying." So he

sued her under anti-slap in state court

and now he claimed that she lived in New

York at the Trump Tower in New York and

that's why the case should be venued and

have its jurisdiction in New York. Two

people are both from New York and so it

should be in a state court not federal

court. If you have a resident of

different states um that's called

diversity of citizenship and there's

something called diversity of

jurisdiction. If someone's from New York

and Florida or say New York and

California or New York or or any other

state and the amount in dispute is above

$75,000,

that case can be removed uh at the

election of the defendant to federal

court. So that's what she's doing right

here. So here's what she says. She goes,

"Plaintiff Michael Wolf filed a

frivolous complaint in this action in

the Supreme Court of the State of New

York on October 21st, 2025." Pause

there, Melania. If you think it's

frivolous, why didn't you sue him? If

you think that he's defaming you, why on

October 21st, 2025, when you threaten

that you would sue him in Florida, why

didn't you sue him for defamation? Are

you worried about discovery? Are you

afraid that he's going to take your

deposition? Were you just bluffing? Why

threaten to sue someone for a billion

dollars and not follow through with it?

It looks weak. It looks pathetic. It

looks like you've got something to hide.

and then he ended up suing you. And it

says, "A true and correct copy of that

summon and complaint is attached here.

Mrs. Trump reserves all of her defenses

and all other rights with respect to the

claims asserted in the complaint and all

of her rights generally um in discussing

blah blah blah blah." Then it goes on to

say, "As of the date of this notice of

removal, Miss Trump has not been validly

served with a summon of a copy of the

complaint. As plaintiff conceds, there

are no other pleadings or orders filed

in New York court in this action.

Plaintiff's false allegations in the

complaint are incorporated here and by

reference." So, she admits that she had

not been uh served and Michael Wolf has

been stating that she's been avoiding

service. Wol said that he tried to serve

her uh at Mara Lago. He tried to serve

her at Trump Tower. He tried to serve

her in Washington DC, but she was

running from him is what he claimed that

she was avoiding service of process

since he filed the lawsuit back in

October. And I guess, you know, she

didn't want to beounded by a process

server, so she just said, "I'm going to

enter an appearance in federal court to

try to keep this case in federal court

as opposed to state court." Um,

paragraph three, plaintiffs alleges that

he's an experienced journalist and a

resident of of New York. Then she goes

on to say in paragraph 4, the complaint

falsely alleges on information and

belief that while Mrs. Trump spends some

time in Washington DC and has ties to

Florida. Mrs. Trump currently is a

citizen of New York State. As explained

below, Mrs. Trump is not currently a

citizen of New York, nor was she a New

York citizen at the time the complaint

was filed on October 21st, 2025. Mrs.

Trump has been a Florida domiciliary and

thus a Florida citizen at all times

relevant to this action. The complaint

asserts two false claims for declaratory

relief arising out of a letter sent by

Mrs. Trump's council to plaintiff on

October 15, 2025 in which Mrs. Trump's

council demanded that plaintiff retract

and apologize for his numerous false,

defamatory, disparaging, misleading, and

inflammatory statements about Mrs. Trump

made in an article published by the

Daily Beast. In those statements,

plaintiff falsely and maliciously

asserts that Mrs. Trump was somehow

involved in the scandal relating to

Jeffrey Epstein. Given the obviously

defamatory nature of those statements

under applicable law, Mrs. Trump's

council demanded that plaintiff

immediately issue a full and fair

retraction of the statement, immediately

issue an apology for the statements, and

immediately make a monetary proposal to

Mrs. Trump to amilarate the harm that

you have caused. Mrs. Trump reserved the

right to initiate legal action for over

$1 billion in damages if plaintiff

refused to promptly comply with the

foregoing demands. Plaintiff refused to

retract and apologize and instead

initiated this action in an improper

effort to preempt a potential defamation

lawsuit against him by Mrs. Trump. Just

pause there. He didn't do it, my

opinion. He didn't do it to preempt. He

just did it because you threatened to

sue him. And he said, "Okay, if you're

threatening to sue me, I have a first

amendment right to be speaking this

way." And also, you never filed a

lawsuit against him. So, why not file

the I mean, if you think he's defamed

you, why not bring the lawsuit? He's

going to take discovery. He's going to

go through your emails. He's going to

take your deposition. The billiondoll

number is ridiculous. But why don't you

bring if if you think that there's an

actionable case, why didn't you bring

that case? Why don't you bring the case

against Hunter Biden when you threatened

to sue Hunter Biden and gave him a

deadline and said you were going to sue

him for a billion dollars and then how

do you explain those photos right there?

So, how do you explain how do you

explain that? And you clearly must have

known at some time I'm giving again I'm

giving you my first amendment speech

protected by the first amendment. Like

you married Donald and you didn't know

that he had a friendship with Jeffrey

Epstein at the time. Like you didn't

know about that. Did you didn't know

Epstein was going to Mara Lago while

he's photographed with you in Mara Lago

in those photos that I just showed?

Okay. Then she just goes on to say that

her she goes on to say that um this is

what it says. With respect to the state

of citizenship of Mrs. Trump, the

complaint acknowledges that Trump spent

some time in DC and has ties to Florida,

but nevertheless makes the conclusory

unsupported and false assertion that she

is a citizen of New York State. Under

settled second circuit precedent, the

following facts show that Mrs. Trump is

doiciled in and is therefore a citizen

of the state of Florida. Doiciled means

like where your legal residence is. So

if she is indeed a resident of Florida

and Wolf is a resident of New York, it

should go to federal court. I want to be

clear, but Wolf is alleging she lives in

New York at Trump Tower in New York and

she's alleging she lives at Mara Lago is

the address that she gives. Because if

you look at the um filing page, she

lists Mara Lago's address as her home

address. She lists the Mara Lago Club as

her personal residence versus a personal

residence in Trump Tower. Okay. But

here's what she says about uh the facts

that she claims shows that she's

doiciled in Florida. Since October 30th,

2019, Mrs. Trump has designated her

primary residence as Mara Lago, which is

located at 1100 South Ocean Boulevard,

Palm Beach. Since October 30th, 2019,

Mrs. Trump has been registered to vote

in the state of Florida and cast her

votes in federal elections in 2020,

2022, and 2024. Since September 2021,

Mrs. Trump has maintained a valid

driver's license issued by the state of

Florida. When not in Washington DC

carrying out her official duties as

first lady, Mrs. Trump spends the

majority of her time at her primary

residence in Palm Beach, Florida. Based

on these established and indisputable

facts, Mrs. Trump is a citizen of

Florida. Now, pause there. If indeed she

does spend the majority of time in

Florida, let's say she spends more than

6 months in Florida, in my opinion, that

would make her a Florida resident. But

it's not undisputed.

Michael Wolf is disputing it. He claims

you live in Trump Tower in New York as

your primary residence. When you're not

in DC, you're not in Mara Lago. He

alleges. He alleges that maybe you're at

Mara Lago for New Year's and Christmas

and events like that. And you go there,

but he's saying you're mostly Washington

DC and you're mostly New York. So, what

do I think Michael Wolf is going to do

here? This is what I would do if I was

in a situation like this. I would

conduct what's called jurisdictional

discovery. Request from the federal

judge that you take limited discovery on

the issue of doicile where somebody

resides. You'll do some requests,

document requests, maybe requests for

admissions, and then you take Melania's

deposition limited to two hours, maybe

90 minutes on the limited issue of where

you reside and what your doicile is. And

then you would ask the questions to her

under oath. Where were you last week?

Where were you the week before that?

Since Donald Trump has come into office,

how many days have you spent in Mara

Lago? Produce your flight records. How

do you get to Mara Lago? Do you have Do

you take the jet? Produce the flight

manifest showing that you've been

traveling to Florida. You request that

type of stuff specifically. And then

you'll make the argument, oh, she

actually lives in New York. She actually

lives in DC or she's a resident of

Florida. Now, if she's a resident of

Florida, the case will stay in federal

court and then it will get litigated,

right? Then she'll file a motion to

dismiss and claim that there's no claim

against her. Michael Wolf will argue

that he has a cause of action against

her and then the case gets fought. But

what I find interesting here too though

is that her action was to remove it to

federal court and she hasn't sued him.

She hasn't sued him in Florida. She

hasn't filed a counter suit. But what

she wants to do is remove it to federal

court and then she'll probably seek a

motion to dismiss. Now, there's been a

lot of other issues with Bologania

recently as well that we should be

reporting on. The Daily News talks about

how models who have been in Mara Lago

taking photos of Baron have been

threatened allegedly by Melania with

harsh punishment after snapping covert

photos of Baron during Christmas at Mara

Lago. And you see photos of Baron here

on Christmas at Mara Lago. insiders told

a gossip columnist Rob Shooter who wrote

on Substack that these models who were

taking the photos were basically uh told

by Melani and other people in Mara Lago

if you ever take photos of Baron that

could result in you getting kicked out

of Mara Lago as a member and banned for

Mara Lago. It's also notable as well and

I think this would be interesting uh to

explore. You know how close Melania is

with Baron. Now Baron lives in

Washington DC. Baron was living in New

York where he went to NYU, but

apparently he either didn't like living

in New York or whatever the reason was,

he wanted to move back to DC, but I

think he wanted to be with his family

there. He's taking NYU courses in

Washington DC. But is Melania there with

him in DC? Was she living with him

during the first semester? I mean, lots

of people believe they were living

together at Trump Tower. He would be

there and she they'd be living together.

So, those are all questions that will be

asked, I think, at a jurisdictional

discovery deposition involving uh

Melania. There were also photos though

of Baron taken recently at the New

Year's uh event. Here's Baron with uh

Donald Trump and Melania um at New

Year's. Here, play this clip right here.

Now, here is what Michael Wolf said,

what is it last week when he was uh

talking about how Melania was avoiding

service in connection with the lawsuit

he filed against her. Here's what

Michael Wolf said. Play this clip. This

is an update about my lawsuit against

the first lady of the United States. I

think she's running from us. By suing

her, we have the right to subpoena her

and her husband and their friends and to

ask all concerned about their

relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

We have tried to serve her lawyer in

Florida. Uh he has absolutely refused to

take service um of our lawsuit. We've

sent a process server to Trump Tower

where we understand she lives, not in

the White House, but in Trump Tower. And

that process server, who seemed

perfectly familiar with uh with serving

uh people in Trump Tower, a lot of

dubious people there. When the server

found out that it was the first lady,

they panicked. They refused to do it. We

got another server to go and this was

just yesterday. Uh they arrived at Trump

Tower. They prevented from getting in by

security. Security told them that they

would that they would uh take any papers

and throw them in the garbage. But they

did confirm that Melania Trump lives in

Trump Tower. So this is a kind of

historical point. The first lady of the

United States does not live in the White

House. She lives in Trump Tower. We will

now go into court as early as tomorrow.

And a reminder when Melania was asked

about Donald Trump's statement where

Donald Trump said that he grabs women

non-consensually by their vaginas and

because Trump says he's wealthy and when

you're wealthy, you get away with it.

You can grab women by their vaginas. He

used a different language. Um he called

it locker room talk and remember she was

asked what she thought about it and she

said uh that she believed it was locker

room talk as well. Here play this clip.

>> He described it as as locker room talk.

>> Mhm.

>> To you. I mean you sort of alluded to

that as well. Is that what it is to you?

Just locker room talk.

>> Yeah. It's it's kind of a two teenage

boys actually. They should behave

better. Right.

>> He was 59.

>> Correct. uh and sometimes I said I have

a two boys at home. I have my young son

and I have my husband.

So, but uh I I I know how some men talk.

And uh

that's that's how I saw it. Yes.

>> Well, there you have it, folks. Um we'll

keep you posted. A reminder, Melania

denies and says what Wolf says is false.

She alleges what Wolf says is

defamatory. Wolf alleges that he has a

First Amendment right to say it. And

that's the, you know, and that's the

dispute. He alleges that his reporting

is accurate and he says that she's

mischaracterizing even the way he's

reported on things. And so that's the

status of it. We'll keep you posted

every step of the way on this case. But

interesting, Milani is now in federal

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