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Judge Throws Out Michael Wolff’s Preemptive Lawsuit Against Melania Trump · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. Michael Wolfe and Malania Trump have been in
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  Speaker 1: a legal tug of war over comments made by Michael
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  Speaker 1: wolf about Milania Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. Well, now the
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  Speaker 1: judge has thrown the lawsuit out, stating that Michael Wolfe
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  Speaker 1: contwarted his attempt to prevent her from suing him for
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  Speaker 1: a billion dollars. However, at the same time, the judge
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  Speaker 1: agreed that Michael Wolfe and the First Lady do have
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  Speaker 1: a real dispute, but he said that they have to
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  Speaker 1: litigate it according to the same procedures as everyone else,
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  Speaker 1: And in my opinion, that seems fair. There should be
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  Speaker 1: no special privileges because it's the First Lady or somebody famous.
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  Speaker 1: The court should be blind and procedures should be procedure.
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  Speaker 1: So let's dive into this article from NBC News and
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  Speaker 1: let's see what they have for us. Headline. Judge throws
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  Speaker 1: out author Michael Wolfe's lawsuit against Malania Trump. This article
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  Speaker 1: was authored by the Associated Press, so it looks like
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  Speaker 1: NBC is just running an Associated Press article and there
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  Speaker 1: is no author to attribute it to. So we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: say staff A judge throwout Michael Wolfe's lawsuit against First
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  Speaker 1: Lady Milania Trump on Friday, ruling that is contorted attempt
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  Speaker 1: to prevent her from suing him for one billion dollars
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  Speaker 1: over his statements about her and Jeffrey Epstein is not
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  Speaker 1: how the federal courts work. And I know a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people like Michael Wolfe these days. I'm not one
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  Speaker 1: of them because I think he's been playing games for
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  Speaker 1: too long. Says he has all this information about Jeffrey Epstein,
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  Speaker 1: has all this video, all these you know, notes, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: and never releases any of it, but somehow puts himself
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  Speaker 1: directly into the mix on a regular basis. So I
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  Speaker 1: have my doubts about Michael Wolfe. But with that said,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that he should be sued by the
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  Speaker 1: First Lady or the President over a free speech issue. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if he's defaming her or has nothing to back up
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  Speaker 1: what he's saying, that's a different story. But I'm not
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  Speaker 1: too sure just how much evidence Michael Wolfe has. And
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  Speaker 1: for me, it's like having two terrorist groups come to
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  Speaker 1: the table. Right. You're happy they're negotiating, but you don't
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  Speaker 1: really believe what either side is saying. Judge Mary kay
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  Speaker 1: Vascasil in Federal Court in Manhattan chidedt Wolf for an
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  Speaker 1: inappropriate level of tactical gamesmanship and said she will not
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  Speaker 1: be conscripted to oversee an abusively presented spat and I
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  Speaker 1: don't blame her. I wouldn't want games being played in
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  Speaker 1: my courtroom either, And it's up to the judge to
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  Speaker 1: rain that shit in now. The judge has also filed
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  Speaker 1: a forty five page memorandum explaining why they denied the
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  Speaker 1: request and threw it out, And at some point we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna get to that too, or at the very least
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  Speaker 1: the part where she explains why she threw it out.
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  Speaker 1: The judge, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, greed
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  Speaker 1: that Wolf and the First Lady have a real dispute,
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  Speaker 1: but said they must litigate it according to the same
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  Speaker 1: procedures as everyone else. Well that's fair. You don't get
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  Speaker 1: any kind of special privilege because you're rich or you're famous,
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  Speaker 1: Well you shouldn't. It should be the same procedure for
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  Speaker 1: every single person. Wolf sued Milania Trump last October after
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  Speaker 1: her lawyer Alejandro Brito told him in a letter that
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  Speaker 1: she would be left with no alternative but to sue
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  Speaker 1: him if he didn't retract statements that the lawyer said
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  Speaker 1: had caused her overwhelming reputational and financial harm. YO, look,
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  Speaker 1: if Michael Wolfe is lying about Milania Trump and her
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  Speaker 1: ties to Jeffrey Epstein, he should face penalties for that.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody should be thrown around allegations and saying this one
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  Speaker 1: was introduced to that one without any kind of evidence,
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  Speaker 1: Especially in this case. I think we've reached a point
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  Speaker 1: where nobody who's serious about what's going on is listening
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  Speaker 1: to you. Trust us bro or my anonymous source, or
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  Speaker 1: I heard from, I heard from, I heard from. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: wants to hear it. Wolf wanted a judge to declare
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  Speaker 1: that he did not defame the first lady, and that
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  Speaker 1: were she to pursue a lawsuit against him, she would
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  Speaker 1: be liable for costs, fees, and unspecified monetary damages. So
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  Speaker 1: he was looking for a preemptive strike, and he was
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  Speaker 1: looking to give himself some armour in case he did
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  Speaker 1: get sued by Milania Trump. Wolf originally sued in state court,
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  Speaker 1: New York under a law barring lawsuits designed to silence critics.
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  Speaker 1: Such lawsuits are known as slaps or strategic lawsuits against
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  Speaker 1: public participation. Brito then had the case transferred to federal
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  Speaker 1: court and later sought to have it dismissed or moved
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  Speaker 1: to federal court in Florida. And they'll do that a lot.
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  Speaker 1: They'll look for a better jurisdiction, and it's called venue shopping.
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  Speaker 1: But it's something that's within the boundaries to a certain point.
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  Speaker 1: The judge, in her forty five page decision said that
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  Speaker 1: while the federal court does have jurisdiction, she was declining
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  Speaker 1: to exercise it and dismisses this case to be litigated
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  Speaker 1: like any other. So it wasn't with prejudice. That means
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  Speaker 1: that the case can be refiled, but it's going to
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  Speaker 1: have to be within the boundary set by the judge.
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  Speaker 1: Nick Clemens, a spokesperson from Milania, Trump, said she's proud
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  Speaker 1: to continue standing up to and fighting against those who
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  Speaker 1: spread malicious and defamatory falsehoods as they desperately try to
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  Speaker 1: get undeserved attention and money from their own lawful conduct. Boy,
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  Speaker 1: that's rich coming from somebody with the last name Trump. Huh.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about pilfering the American public handover fist and I
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  Speaker 1: also find it humorous that you have these people out
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  Speaker 1: here yelling about everyone's a communist, everyone's a socialist, but
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  Speaker 1: you have the Trump administration buying pieces of companies and shit,
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  Speaker 1: what are we China? In April, Milania Trump made a
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  Speaker 1: statement at the White House denying any affiliation with Epstein,
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  Speaker 1: the millionaire financier and convicted sex offender who killed himself
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  Speaker 1: allegedly in jail in August twenty nineteen, while awaiting trial
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  Speaker 1: on sex trafficking charges. Reading prepared remarks, the First Lady
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  Speaker 1: said that she and her lawyers were fighting back against
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  Speaker 1: unfound and baseless lies that suggested she had ties to Epstein.
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  Speaker 1: And look, I don't know one way or the other.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to sit here and make pretend I know.
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  Speaker 1: But there's certainly some smoke and there's a lot of connections.
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  Speaker 1: Does that mean that Milania Trump was introduced to her
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  Speaker 1: husband by Jeffrey Epstein. No, it doesn't. But it's certainly
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  Speaker 1: something that is worthy of investigating. And if Michael Wolfe
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  Speaker 1: has some information and some evidence, he should provide it.
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  Speaker 1: But I guess he couldn't tease the new book if
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  Speaker 1: he did that. Huh, got to hold something back right.
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  Speaker 1: Got to make those fazzules, got to get that bag.
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  Speaker 1: The lies linking me to the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need
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  Speaker 1: to end today. Milania Trump said, the individuals lying about
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  Speaker 1: me are devoid of ethical standards, humility, and respect. I
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  Speaker 1: do not object to their ignorance, but rather I reject
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  Speaker 1: their mean spirited attempts to defame my reputation. You mean,
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  Speaker 1: like your husband's doing to the survivors themselves. Maybe you
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  Speaker 1: should have a talk with Donnie Diddles and read him
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  Speaker 1: your speech, because that's the audience that needs to hear it.
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  Speaker 1: In his lawsuit, Wilf argue that the Trumps have made
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  Speaker 1: a practice of threatening those who speak against them with
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  Speaker 1: costly legal actions to silence their speech, to intimidate their
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  Speaker 1: critics generally, and to extract unjustified payments and North Korean
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  Speaker 1: style confessions and apologies. Well that all tracks. I've never
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  Speaker 1: seen a president sue people the way Donald Trump does.
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  Speaker 1: It is absurd. Talk about a man who's soft as
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  Speaker 1: fucking baby shit, all that bravado, all that tough talk,
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  Speaker 1: only to be soft as hell. He said that the
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  Speaker 1: threat we're designed to create a climate of fear in
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  Speaker 1: the nation so that people cannot freely or confidently exercise
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  Speaker 1: their First Amendment rights. Wolf has published a dozen books,
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  Speaker 1: including four best sellers, about the president. Well, that kind
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  Speaker 1: of goes right in the face of it, right, buddy,
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  Speaker 1: You have how many books about Donald Trump talking about him?
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  Speaker 1: So what do you mean that you can't express your
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  Speaker 1: First Amendment rights? Seems to me that you've been doing that.
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  Speaker 1: Now the question is are you telling the truth about
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  Speaker 1: Milania Trump? That's really what it comes down to. And
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  Speaker 1: if you are, let's see the evidence. But if you're not,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be a problem for Michael wolf And
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  Speaker 1: that problem comes to the tune of about a billion dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Wolfe said in the lawsuit that Milania Trump's threat to
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  Speaker 1: sue him was related to statements he made to The
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  Speaker 1: Daily Beast and in three social media videos. Some statements
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  Speaker 1: were in complete phrases and we're taken out of context.
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  Speaker 1: He said, Well, I don't know about that. Michael Wolfe
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  Speaker 1: has had a lot to say about the Trumps, and
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  Speaker 1: whether it's true or not, there's no doubt he's been
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  Speaker 1: able to say it. Now has he gone too far?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. It all comes down to the evidence,
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  Speaker 1: and if he has evidence backing up what he's saying,
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  Speaker 1: then he's going to be fine. But if not, well,
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  Speaker 1: I guess we'll see that too. Others the lawsuit said
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  Speaker 1: were protected speech. For instance, the statement that the Trumps
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  Speaker 1: were in a sham marriage trophy marriage was a fair,
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  Speaker 1: justified statement of opinion. It said, Okay, opinion, not fact,
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  Speaker 1: nothing to back it up, just saying his opinion, and
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  Speaker 1: that's cool. He's allowed to have an opinion, but you
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  Speaker 1: can't pass it off as fact. You have to say, look,
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  Speaker 1: as far as I know, or this is my opinion.
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  Speaker 1: You can't be out here saying one hundred percent this
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  Speaker 1: happened if you don't have evidence of it. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of people have forgotten that it's not what you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's what you can prove. And with all of the
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  Speaker 1: big statements made by Michael Wolf I'm very interested to
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  Speaker 1: see what he can prove. The lawsuit noted that Wolf
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  Speaker 1: ever said Malania Trump was involved in any of Epstein's crimes.
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  Speaker 1: In July twenty twenty five, after receiving a letter from Brito,
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  Speaker 1: the Daily Beast retracted an article titled Milania Trump very
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  Speaker 1: involved in Epstein's scandal author that was based on an
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  Speaker 1: interview with Wolf. So not looking good for mister wolf
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  Speaker 1: When you have something get pulled by the publisher, not
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  Speaker 1: a good look. Wolf in his lawsuit said his comments
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  Speaker 1: pertained to the First Lady's involvement last year managing the
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  Speaker 1: matter behind the scenes at the White House, not that
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  Speaker 1: she was involved in any of Epstein's crimes. So he's
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  Speaker 1: walking it back. This is what I told you about,
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  Speaker 1: Michael Wolfe, be very very cautious. All these people that
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  Speaker 1: you see on the circuit going on all these shows,
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  Speaker 1: they're doing it to get a bag, to increase their profile.
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  Speaker 1: It's not because they care about the case. So I'd
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  Speaker 1: be very very cautious of all those kinds of people.
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  Speaker 1: Among other statements Wolf said were true were those his
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  Speaker 1: comments about Milania Trump meeting Donald Trump in Epstein's social
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  Speaker 1: circle and that Donald Trump liked to have sex with
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  Speaker 1: his friend's wives and first slept with Malanya Trump on
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's private jet. Again, Bombshell claims, let's see some proof,
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  Speaker 1: so we'll see what Michael Wolfe has to say moving
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  Speaker 1: forward here and if he provides the proof that he
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  Speaker 1: says he has. But as of now, I have my
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  Speaker 1: doubts about Michael Wolfe and just exactly what he knows.
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  Speaker 1: All the information that goes with this episode can be
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