This could get incredibly messy. From Martin Jay at strategic-culture.su:
The depravity of Epstein’s parties in the 90s are about to be examined in grotesque detail giving the world’s media a gift they could hardly dream of. But is Trump setting his wife up to be his scapegoat?
The depravity of Epstein’s parties in the 90s are about to be examined in grotesque detail giving the world’s media a gift they could hardly dream of. But is Trump setting his wife up to be his scapegoat?
It could be the most controversial libel case in U.S. history but if Melania Trump goes ahead with her case against Hunter Biden – who repeated the claim that it was the disgraced financier Jeffry Epstein who introduced her to the U.S. president – history could be written not by the victors as Churchill once espoused but by the swamp itself in Washington which is out for Trump’s blood.
In barely a matter of days after sensational new allegations are published in a book by a British author about Prince Andrew’s sexual deviancy and his almost Stockholm Syndrome attachment to Epstein – which alleged that the prince was also close to Trump and that it was Epstein who introduced Melania to him – the first lady has threatened to make U.S. libel history by suing for defamation in a USD 1bn case.
In fact, days after the book hit the shelves, Andrew Lownie’s bombshell expose’s publishers had a swift rethink about how libel laws on both sides of the Atlantic could play into Trump’s hands and have the book pulped. They removed the key section which made the link between Epstein and Melania.
Critically, there is one simple, yet unadorned difference between U.S. and UK libel laws which forced them to do this. The book, The Rise and Fall of the House of York, originally claimed that it was Epstein himself who introduced Melania to Donald which, under English defamation law, its publishers would be obliged to prove, if contested. The claim is impossible to stand up and the publishers wisely didn’t give the Trumps an easy victory in having the book pulped entirely and possibly bankrupting both Lownie and his publishers. Lownie must be kicking himself now that he didn’t allude to Epstein’s tawdry circle of friends whose degenerate parties provided the opportunity for Melania to be introduced to the U.S. president.
