Melania Trump’s team has aggressively knocked down Epstein-related ‘falsehoods’

Washington – First Lady Melania Trump ordered her lawyers to take rapid measures against any platform or person who publishes “lies” or “defamatory” information about him with regard to the sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein, two people familiar with the case at NBC News.

The campaign resulted in several recent retractions and apology. President Donald Trump said that his wife had been “very upset” about any complaint linked to Epstein which “pulled it” and was not eliminated.

While the West wing is mainly in a defensive posture when navigation in Epstein controversy, the wing is had a more direct approach to any material which mentions Melania Trump in the context of Epstein. The strategy stands out from what was a reserved posture of the First Lady and her team, which was more selective about what they are committed to their first mandate.

More recently, the First Lady published on Monday apologies and a updated retraction of the Daily beast on its X account, which was then amplified by the White House and its allies.

The Daily Beast has retracted a very involved “Melania Trump” titles in Epstein Scandal: author “, based on an interview with Michael Wolff, who said that Epstein was involved in the presentation of President Donald Trump.

The July article was put in place for a short period before the first lady’s lawyers reached the hand, “contesting the title and the framing of the article”, according to a note from the publisher. Last week, this note was updated to indicate that the Daily Beast had also deleted a section of a podcast entitled “Trump’s Epstein scandal cannot stop” which referred to Melania Trump and presented Wolff.

A spokesperson for the First Lady, Nick Clemens, told NBC News in a statement: “The lawyers for First Lady Melania Trump actively guarantee the retractions and immediate excuses of those who have spread malware and defamatory lies. The real story of how the first lady met President Trump is in her best -selling book. ‘

In the book, Melania Trump said that she had met her husband for the first time at a party at the Kit Kat Club in September 1998 in New York and that they were presented by someone else, not Epstein.

These are only the last of a series of retractions linked to the First Lady and the Epstein saga. The references to Melania Trump were also withdrawn from a new book on the British prince Andrew, published last month. It is not known whether the publisher has received a type of legal notice from the first lady’s lawyers or if he has decided to draw the equipment by himself.

A previous version of the book, which was examined by NBC News, also alleged that Epstein “facilitated” the introduction of Melania and Donald Trump, and included other mentions of the First Lady. The book did not say that it was aware of an illegal activity. These references no longer appear in the book.

“Several passages” were removed from the American publishing of the unauthorized biography of Prince Andrew, confirmed the author’s publicist. The publicist, Jesse Nash, did not provide reason for the removal of the passages.

A HarperCollins UK spokesperson said that the same has been done for the British version: “We can confirm that several passages from Title: the rise and fall of the house of York By Andrew Lownie was deleted in consultation with the author. »»

The Lownie’s book, a historian, was published in the United Kingdom on August 14 and includes, among other details of Prince Andrew’s life, the calendar of his links with Epstein, who died by suicide in prison in 2019. In the United States, Lownie was published in eBook and Audio formats.

Melania Trump has never been accused of any reprehensible act linked to the deceased financial. The president was friends with Epstein for years before they managed.

President Trump recently told journalists he had told Melania Trump to “go ahead” with legal threats against publications and people who falsely suggested that Epstein introduced the first couple. “Jeffrey Epstein had nothing to do with Melania and the introduction,” he said. “But they do that to lower themselves. They invent stories. … I told him, let’s go and do it. I let her use my lawyers. She is very upset about this.”

In recent weeks, the First Lady’s team has also asked for retractions and excuses of high -level democrats who have mentioned Epstein and Melania Trump on podcasts, notably the son of former president Joe Biden, Hunter.

Last month, the personal lawyer for the first lady, Alejandro Brito, sent a letter to Hunter Biden and his lawyer demanding a retraction and apologies for comments he made in a recent interview suggesting that Epstein had presented the first lady to Donald Trump. The letter indicates that the First Lady would otherwise ask for more than a billion dollars in damages.

“The fact of not complying will leave Ms. Trump without choice to continue all the legal rights and recourse at her disposal to recover the overwhelming financial and reputation damage that you have undergone,” wrote Brito.

Biden responded with an explanative in an online follow-up interview, saying “F — This will not happen.”

As of September 17, Melania Trump did not file a complaint against Hunter Biden.

A few days before Biden’s refusal, Democrat Stratège James Carville published apologies and a retraction for a podcast segment in which he made similar claims about Epstein and Melania Trump.

“After the episode, we received a letter from the lawyer from Melania Trump. He challenged our title of one of these YouTube videos of this episode and some comments that I made about the First Lady. We examined what they complained, and we removed the video and edited these comments from the episode. I take these statements and we have excluded ourselves.”

The two trumps posted on Carville’s apologies on social networks, with the writing president: “Melania is great !!!”