A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by journalist Michael Wolff against First Lady Melania Trump, calling it a \u201ccontorted\u201d attempt and \u201cnot how federal courts work.\u201d Wolff filed suit against Trump seeking to block her from suing him for $1 billion for alleged defamatory claims he made regarding her association with Jeffrey Epstein. \u201cIt\u2019s an inappropriate level of tactical gamesmanship,\u201d said Manhattan Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil, an appointee of President Donald Trump. Vyskocil said she would not be \u201cdrafted to oversee an abusively presented spat,\u201d yet she recognized that both sides have a \u201creal dispute.\u201d Last year, the first lady\u2019s lawyer issued Wolff a letter demanding he delete the statements he made about Trump and threatening that she would have \u201cno alternative\u201d but to sue him if he didn\u2019t. That spurred him to sue her in state court in October. Trump\u2019s lawyer, Alejandro Brito, had the complaint moved to federal court, where Vyskocil declared that while federal court does have jurisdiction, she was declining to exercise it and \u201cdismisses this case to be litigated like any other.\u201d<\/p>\n
A Melania Trump spokesperson said that the first lady \u201cis proud to continue standing up to, and fighting against, those who spread malicious and defamatory falsehoods as they desperately try to get undeserved attention and money from their unlawful conduct.\u201d The 56-year-old\u2019s lawyer previously claimed that Wolff\u2019s statements caused her \u201coverwhelming reputational and financial harm.\u201d The first lady has denied any association with Epstein, who died in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges of child sex trafficking. \u201cThe lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today,\u201d the first lady said in an April press conference. \u201cThe individuals lying about me are devoid of ethical standards, humility, and respect. I do not object to their ignorance, but rather I reject their mean-spirited attempts to defame my reputation,\u201d she added at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by journalist Michael Wolff against First Lady Melania Trump, calling it a \u201ccontorted\u201d attempt and \u201cnot how federal courts work.\u201d Wolff filed suit against Trump seeking to block her from suing him for $1 billion for alleged defamatory claims he made regarding her association with Jeffrey Epstein. \u201cIt\u2019s an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12104,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12102\/revisions\/12104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}