Michael Wolff Launches Bombshell Lawsuit Against Melania Trump Over Epstein

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5. snip: Wolff argues

that the statements Melania Trump claims to be defamatory were taken out of context, and in proper context are protected opinion and hypothesis based on disclosed facts and broader context. He also asserts that Melania Trump cannot prove the required burden of actual malice with clear and convincing evidence that Wolff did not believe his statements to be true.

Wolff filed the 15-page civil defamation suit in New York Supreme Court under the state’s anti-SLAPP law, short for strategic lawsuits against public participation, which is designed to block lawsuits intended to chill speech. He says the libel threat letter is part of a pattern of abusive litigation deployed by the Trumps, “designed to create a climate of fear in the nation so that people cannot freely or confidently exercise their First Amendment rights.”

“Mrs. Trump and her ‘unitary executive’ husband along with their MAGA myrmidons have made a practice of threatening those who speak against them with costly SLAPP actions in order to silence their speech, to intimidate their critics generally, and to extract unjustified payments and North Korean style confessions and apologies,” Wolff wrote.

https://www.courthousenews.com/michael-wolff-sues-melania-trump-to-stave-off-billion-dollar-libel-threat-over-epstein-claims/