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In the aftermath of First Lady Melania Trump’s shocking statement denying any ties Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s criminal sex trafficking ring, the media bubble has been working overtime to answer…
What caused the notoriously private First Lady to hastily deliver that Epstein missive?
I think I’ve learned why (watch my video report above).
Throughout my journalistic career—whether it be a decade of reporting on the Flint water crisis and cover-up or day to day political reporting—I've always focused on following the timeline of events.
So let’s take a look at the timeline revolving around Melania’s shocking statement.
April 7: Former Brazilian model Amanda Ungaro, who was deported after her ex—Trump administration ambassador Paolo Zampolli asked ICE for a favor—sits down for an interview with Spain’s El País newspaper (to be published later). The interview focuses on her ICE detention but makes no mention of Melania Trump.
April 8-9: Ungaro, who was friends with Melania for decades and claims Melania declined her request for help after she was detained by ICE, pens several tweets threatening Melania. She suggests she has dirt on both Melania and her “pedophile” husband the president. “Maybe you should be afraid of what I know…of who you are, and who your husband is,” Ungaro tweeted.
April 9: Melania issues surprise statement denying any ties to Epstein/Maxwell.
April 10: Paolo Zampolli, Amanda’s ex who she’s been embroiled in custody battle with over their son, tells Sky News he would testify to Congress that he, not Epstein, introduced Melania and Donald Trump.
April 12: Amanda Ungaro’s interview with El País comes out with no mention of Melania Trump.
We made a graphic to make the timeline clearer (see below)
So, let me get this straight: an understandably angry Ungaro, who was basically deported thanks to her ex calling in a favor with Trump’s ICE, threatened Melania on social media with spilling serious tea on potential wrongdoing linked to the First Lady—but she said nothing about Melania to the major Spanish newspaper she spoke to two days before the First Lady’s shocking statement?
Apparently, Ungaro did tell El País something about Melania—which the paper edited it out.
“I do know that in the interview Amanda spoke with El País and spoke about Melania specifically and they omitted that part of the interview,” Anthony Andrews, an independent journalist who has been in direct communications with Ungaro, told Billy Bush.
Andrews said he and other independent journalists who’ve spoken with Ungro believe Melania’s shocking statement was triggered by El País reaching out for comment to the First Lady.
As I said in a weekend video (watch below), this is what I suspected. It didn’t make sense that Ungaro would go nuclear on Melania Trump on social media days after her El País interview but say nothing about Melania in that same interview (meaning the Spanish newspaper edited out parts about Melania).
Journalistically, if Ungaro made comments about Melania to El País, the newspaper would have the responsibility to reach out to the First Lady for comment—meaning, the First Lady would have been tipped off after Ungaro’s April 7th El País interview that a potentially damaging story was about to drop…
Likely explaining why she felt the urgent need to come out on April 9th.
But there is more…
In a recent interview following Melania’s surprise Epstein denial, investigative journalist Tara Palmeri—who’s been doggedly investigating the Epstein scandal for years and has spoken with many of Epstein’s victims—and V Spehar alluded to specifically knowing what Ungaro is accusing the First Lady—and her ex Paolo Zampolli—of.
“It’s true at the Inauguration Melania gets to bring one of her guests and it was always Paolo,” Palmeri began. “He remained very close to Melania and, you know, Amanda would say, you know, that Paolo would…[long pause, refraining from finishing the sentence]…ugh…she’s saying a lot of stuff.”
Spehar noted her and Palmeri need to be careful legally, but that “there are some allegations that Melania was doing a little bit more than modeling for these folks.”
Clearly, both Palmeri and Spehar are aware of the seemingly salacious accusations Ungaro is making related to her ex Zampolli and the First Lady—but are being responsible to not air them out publicly before Ungaro does (or they do their own reporting to confirm).
**As a journalist, I’m going to stick with facts and not spell out accusations that I have not done reporting on myself ; with that said, you’re a smart audience so I’m trusting that you understand what Palmeri, a super plugged in reporter on the Epstein scandal, and Spehar, are alluding to.**
Ungaro is reportedly set to do other interviews; Status Coup will continue to report on what Ungaro says publicly and also dig privately on what she knows related to Melania, President Trump, and Jeffrey Epstein.
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