Any legal team advising the Trumps that a defamation case is a winner is either monstrously incompetent or taking them for a ride. 

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The Epstein case continues to unravel at an alarming pace following the publication of Virginia Giuffre’s scandalous expose ‘Nobody’s Girl’. In the UK, the royal, formerly known as Prince Andrew has had to give up his titles as more sordid details emerge of just how close he and his wife Sarah Fergusson were to the disgraced financier. Yet it is in the U.S. where Donald Trump is having real problems with this lurid saga as social media timelines fill up, it would seem, with photos of him and young girls in their teens. And then there are the cases where hush money was alleged to have been paid out by the U.S. president to families to keep quiet about the nature of such relations.

The real problem Trump has though is the tactic chosen by his wife.

Melania Trump has reacted quite strongly and without caution about claims made these days quite broadly by a number of pundits, that she was not only close to Epstein, but it was the former disgraced financier who introduced her to Trump, who, together helped her with her failed modelling career while fixing her immigration status in the U.S. at that time.

While being billionaires is useful in legal cases as it allows you to hire the best lawyers in the country, what it doesn’t do is give you perspective or valuable prescience about any outcomes which might hit you in the face, what Americans call ‘blowback’ (the recoil of a firearm held in the hand). Amazingly, what Melania’s lawyers have not warned her of is the pain of a defamation case when it reaches court and just how far that blowback can harm the accuser, or ‘claimant’. The point about the case arriving at a court date and being heard is important as most defamation lawyers work on the basis that early threats presented to the ‘defendants’ are usually enough to get a suitable settlement.

When Melania Trump’s lawyers threatened Hunter Biden via the press that they would sue him it made good headlines. But it didn’t make good sense. I argued in an earlier piece that it would make no sense whatsoever to sue Hunter Biden over his own allegations that it was Epstein who introduced Melania to Trump as the kind of money that the Bidens have would manufacture a case in that same courtroom which would allow two key things to happen. One, that Melania would have to answer questions in front of a jury which would probe into her personal life at that specific time, perhaps even about her husband and the validity of their marriage. And secondly, that all of these tawdry details could be reported by journalists who would be able to skirt normal defamation laws through a legal loophole called ‘Absolute Privilege’.

Any legal team advising the Trumps that a defamation case is a winner is either monstrously incompetent or taking them for a ride.

The very area which they are both trying to avoid – events surrounding their introduction and the details of those ‘parties’, not to mention how close both of them were to Epstein – is where their own red in tooth and claw determination to hit out at the accusers, is leading them to. Like moths committing suicide on the flame, it is as though the Trumps cannot help themselves.

Melania’s public image as first lady will be destroyed if any more meat can be put on the bone of this idea that Melania was a struggling model from a poor family, with very low morals and high ambitions who was attracted to Epstein who could find her a millionaire to marry just to pull her out of the gutter and give her the bling life she craved. She of course wants to avoid this altogether and probably her husband has thought about the political implications of Wolff’s lawyers establishing that she was working in the U.S. illegally.

But just how close was she to Epstein? What did their relationship entail?

All of this could have been kept buried if it were not for the stunning foibles and insecurities of the Trumps, assisted by Melania’s lawyers who have led her down a dark alley.

With Hunter Biden, it would seem she dodged a bullet as her threats made via the press were quietly retracted. And while it is true that Melania’s lawyers have had some success in gagging some individuals and even one media outlet when they originally presented the idea that Epstein’s relationship with Melania was how she was introduced to Trump, there are some, who you don’t – can’t – pick fights with.

It is with a Jewish New York writer where she will fall on her sword. Michael Wolff was surprised recently to receive a threat from her lawyers that he would face a 1bn dollar lawsuit if he didn’t retract his claims about the relationship between Melania and Epstein. An interview with the Daily Beast, where he made such claims has since been retracted but similar claims were made in his most recent book about the Trumps (he has written four to date).

Melania’s lawyers could not have guessed what Wolff would do next, but will surely regret it for the rest of their professional lives. Wolff, pushed into a corner, calculated he had much more to gain by launching an expensive counter case, which allows him to call both the Trumps as witness on oath, questioned about their relationship with Epstein. He claims in his defence that the Trumps have been destroying free speech in the U.S. and Americans’ first amendment rights. The case is unprecedented and will eclipse all other scandals in recent U.S. history if it gets to court and the author doesn’t suffer the fate of an extraordinary road accident or an untimely suicide which just so happens to have a botched autopsy.