'Uh-oh': Manhattan DA's Office seeks Melania Trump emails in hush money case

[demmiblue]

Between special counsel Jack Smith's 37-count federal prosecution for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Jr.'s 34-count prosecution for New York State, former President Donald Trump is facing 71 felony counts. And his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results are the focus of two separate criminal investigations: one by Smith and DOJ, the other by Fulton County, Georgia DA Fani Willis.

According to Associated Press reporter Michael R. Sisak, the Manhattan DA's Office is seeking "e-mails exchanged among Trump Organization employees and the White House" as well as "e-mails between Trump's wife, Melania, and Rhona Graff, a longtime company executive."

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, former senior adviser to Melania Trump and author of the 2020 book "Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship With the First Lady," responded to AP's reporting on Twitter.

Wolkoff tweeted, "Melania Trump used several email addresses, texts, and Signal to communicate with me and others while working in the White House and prosecutors want to see them."

https://www.alternet.org/trump-hush-money-2661927816/

Link to tweet

[spooky3]

1. Note to self: don't piss off your senior advisers. Nt

[CentralMass]

2. That should be interesting

[pirsquared]

9. Melania can be forced to testify about Nauta

It is amusing to speculate/fantasize about Melania being a witness and testifying.
She cannot be forced to testify against her husband.

She can be forced to testify about Nauta. She cannot use the 5th Amendment to avoid this.

[Liberty Belle]

16. She could be offered immunity, if she committed any crime and will testify against Trump.

They can't force her to testify against him, but she might do so willingly if she helped him committed tax fraud or other crimes, or covered up crimes.

I'm pretty sure she'd give him up if it mean getting a get out of jail free card.

[Artcatt]

20. Be Best! FTW!!

[lindysalsagal]

23. If you pitched this stuff to a tv comedy, they'd say it's not believable.

[pirsquared]

26. Is daddy Trump paying for her lawyers?

She might well use her enormous wealth to get her own lawyers. And an education coach---she probably does not know enough English to grasp immunity and such.

Let alone any other language. She seems never to have studied even her mother tongue Slovenian.

[FSogol]

3. Fucking Christmas!

I don't care do you?

[Quakerfriend]

7. That recording really showed exactly who

she was!

[Rebl2]

11. I care

but not about her

[czarjak]

4. Lock her up?

[brush]

5. Melania trump or Ivanka trump?

Melania never worked in the WH.

[quaint]

6. The alternet link is more accurate.

[eggplant]

8. FLOTUS gets an office and a budget.

[thenelm1]

19. And killed a rose garden. n/t

[brush]

24. Ivanka was a senior adviser to the president.

A few notches up from a Rose Garden mangler...but IMO none of the three did well at their jobs.

[cab67]

14. maybe not officially

But I'm willing to bet she was involved in some things. Unless the election was overturned, she wouldn't be first lady anymore, so she would have some incentive to do so.

[brush]

22. She couldn't wait to get away from the WH.

[thenelm1]

18. Interchangeable? n/t

[Grasswire2]

21. Melania communicated with Nauta about moving boxes.

At least that's what the language of evidence seems to indicate. The word choice is what an Eastern European might say, in the note.

[70sEraVet]

10. So, if a wife can't be forced to testify against her husband (what I've always heard)....

can her text messages about her husband's actions be used as evidence?

[NBachers]

12. She should be indicted for the damage she did to the White House Rose Garden.

[republianmushroom]

13. Get them. Now.

Appeals court dismisses claims against Ivanka Trump in N.Y. AG's $250 million fraud case

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/appeals-court-dismisses-claims-ivanka-trump-ny-ags-250-million-fraud-c-rcna91447


https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143094157

[lindysalsagal]

25. So she can testify against him, then.

and visit him in prison.

[spanone]

15. May his lawyers bankrupt the gop

[kentuck]

17. The handler?

Someone inquired?