Melania SHUTS DOWN Presser over EPSTEIN FILES!!!

What this episode is about

Melania Trump faced intense scrutiny during a press conference where she controversially used the release of hostages to promote her struggling movie. When pressed by a reporter about the appropriateness of her actions and her past connections to Jeffrey Epstein, Melania deflected questions, insisting that the event was solely about celebrating the hostages, not promoting her film.

Key takeaways

• Melania's press tactics: using hostages as movie props—a real-life plot twist gone wrong.
• With $80M backing, Melania's film fizzles at $7M—proof that not all publicity is good publicity.
• In a world of flops, can Melania's movie be the only one that requires paid audiences?
• Melania dodges Epstein questions while promoting her film; irony served up colder than her demeanor.
• Tragic irony: Melania's movie claims success amid reports of empty theaters—it’s a cinematic ghost town.

Who speaks in this episode?

• Melania Trump (Guest) · 3 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 3:00: Melania, Blaine & Robert Trump, Chislaine Maxwell
2. 3:00 – 6:00: Melania, Jeff Bezos, Blaine & Robert Trump
3. 6:00 – 9:00: Melania, Soul
4. 9:00 – 12:00: Brett Ratner, Melania, Chislaine Maxwell
5. 12:00 – 13:55: Melania, Blaine & Robert Trump, Jeff Bezos

Notable quotes from "Melania SHUTS DOWN Presser over EPSTEIN FILES!!!"

• Melania Trump was just called out to her face during a disastrous press conference that she called. People are Why is she doing a press conference in the first place? Well,.

  about Melania · at 0:00

• And then Melania was asked about her dark past and her relationship with Gileain Maxwell. Let me show you. She goes, I don't want to talk about that anymore. We are not going to be talking.

  about Chislaine Maxwell · at 2:32

• Million domestically, $285 million internationally, and $463 million worldwide. Then Melania acts like this got an A. This was the worst movie ever.

  about Blaine & Robert Trump · at 4:32

• Vegan, gluten-free, low sugar, and federally legal. Give yourself the gift of a healthier unwind. Right now, Soul is offering my audience 30% off your entire order. Go to gets…

  about Soul · at 9:12

• Okay. So, so utterly embarrassing. And by the way, the director is Brett Ratner, who's all over the Epstein files, who has a lot of accusations against him, but he was the one who was picked. This is him right here. You see.

  about Brett Ratner · at 10:13

• Jeff Bezos shuttering the Washington Post, shutting it down. Basically firing almost half the staff today, firing people in war zones today while giving $70 million to the…

  about Jeff Bezos · at 13:01

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Blaine & Robert Trump — Person · Primary referenced subject · 6 mentions · first at 0:00
  Central figure of the segment: criticized for holding a White House press event that the host frames as promotion for her documentary/film and for avoiding questions about Epstein-related connections.
• Chislaine Maxwell — Person · Referenced associate in Epstein-related questioning · 2 mentions · first at 2:33
  Raised as part of a reporter's question to Melania about her 'past' and alleged connections; also referenced via an email described as being from Melania to Maxwell.
• Jeff Bezos — Person · Referenced financier / media owner · 3 mentions · first at 3:58
  Mentioned as allegedly providing major funding for the 'Melania' film and as the owner tied to layoffs/shuttering at The Washington Post, used to argue hypocrisy and financial manipulation around the film's performance.
• Brett Ratner — Person · Referenced director / Epstein-files figure · 2 mentions · first at 10:15
  Identified as the director of the 'Melania' film and criticized as appearing in Epstein-related materials; a clip is played of him responding to questions about a photo with Epstein.

Products & tech

• Melania — Product · Business focus · 17 mentions · first at 0:00
  The movie 'Melania' is being promoted by Melania Trump during a press conference, using freed hostages as a promotional tool, which is criticized in the podcast.

Sponsors

• Soul — Product · Sponsor · 1 mention · first at 8:25
  Soul is promoted as an alcohol alternative with CBD and THC products, with an explicit call to action for listeners to purchase using a promo code.

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 Melania Trump was just called out to her face during a disastrous press conference that she called. People are like, "Why is she doing a press conference in the first place?" Well, she was using hostages that were just freed as a way to promote her movie by saying, "Oh, and I spoke with these hostages on the Melania movie. Look at these hostages right here." So, she sickly and disgustingly used this to promote the Melania movie that's already an utter failure that the regime is trying to claim is really popular. Watch her plug her movie right here. And then I'm going to show you when a reporter actually calls Melania out to her face.

0:36 And then a reporter says, "You know what? You want to talk about your movie and your past, Melania? Well, then let's talk about Epstein. What do you think about Gileain Maxwell, Melania?" And Melania's like, "I'm not here to talk about my past at all. I'm not here to talk about these things at all." First, watch her plug her movie. This is disgusting. Here, play this clip. 7 2023 and Keith was captured for 484 days. After Aviva was freed, she called me, wanted to see me and we set up a meeting in New York in January 2025.

1:15 It was emotional meeting and uh it is it is captured on camera and available to see in my new film Melania. And then a reporter by the name of Betsy Klein asks a great question here and says why are you promoting your mo you're using these hostages to promote your movie right now on the taxpayer dime? What the hell are you doing Melania? Here watch this right here. Why do you feel is appropriate to use an official White House event to promote your documentary?

1:46 This is not promotion. We are here celebrating the release of the hostages of Aviva and Keith. They were in Washington DC. They called me. They said they would like to come over to thank me and to uh to give uh hugs. And that's why we are here. Has nothing to do with promotion. Just so we can all see again Melania do it. I'll give you a shorter clip of Melania plugging the movie right here. Play this clip.

2:18 It was emotional meeting and um it is it is captured on camera and available to see in my new film Melania. Um it was very emotional.

2:32 And then Melania was asked about her dark past and her relationship with Gileain Maxwell. Let me show you. She goes, "I don't want to talk about that anymore. We are not going to be talking about that. That's not uh appropriate." Here, play this clip right here.

2:47 Survivor move to a high. We are We are here celebrating the release and the life of those two incredible people. So, let's honor that. Well, then she's asked right here about her communications with Putin because she previously said that Putin agreed to release hostages these Ukrainian children who are being smuggled and sex trafficked um and going through atrocities in Russia right now. By the way, Putin's all over the Epste files also. So, Melania has asked, "Hey, Melania, you seem to say you have a good relationship with Putin. So, is he releasing those Ukrainian kids or did you just say that also to promote yourself?" Disgusting. Melania. here.

3:28 Play this clip. Has President Putin agreed to release any more Ukrainian? I'm working on it. I'm working on it and uh we are in the process. So, I hope we have success very soon. I will keep you posted.

3:43 And by the way, you go through all of Milani's social media. You see, this is just a coordinated effort to try to promote her movie and she acts like her movie was successful. It's lost like $75 million or something close to that, right? I mean, they put in what, like $80 million? Bezos put in $80 million to promote it, and it's made what, $7 million, $8 million despite it being in every theater, like across the country right now. And she's acting like, "Oh, this was the greatest success ever." She keeps posting, "Ah, it's going to be in 200 more theaters right now." And a record breaker. State regime media is like, "This is a record breaker." I saw somebody post the following. Um, not even close to the original, a flop. And they say that Pretty Woman, which is about a corporate raider who hires a hooker to act as a business escort in Beverly Hills, California, made 178 million domestically, $285 million

4:36 internationally, and $463 million worldwide. Then Melania acts like this got an A. This was the worst movie ever. It was as big as a flop as you can get despite it getting $80 million of cash infusion uh from Jeff Bezos. And by the way, the Midas Touch Network reported on how you had like Donald Trump's Christian groups and faith groups, right? Trump's Christian groups seems like a direct contradiction because it is, but anyway, you had supporters um saying, "Buy in bulk. Buy out the theaters. Um help support Melania by just buying tickets whether you actually see the thing or not." We broke an exclusive there. And by the way, we sent somebody to go to the various theaters to see if these theaters were actually being attended by anybody and they saw that there was zero attendance. Let me just show you over here. We got a guy named Secret Service Sam who's been working with the Midas Touch Network. We

5:29 sent him around to see what's going on at these Melania theat Melania movie screenings. Let's play this clip right here.

5:36 What did you just tell me you said? I mean, they're saying that people are paying for um they're paying people to watch the movie, so it's pretty empty.

5:44 Wow. That sounds like evidence of fraud. Secret Service Sam here for the Midas Touch Network and I am so excited cuz I am here outside the theater in Pasadena. This is the entertainment capital of the world and I am here to see the Melania movie. Is this fraud? I'm not sure. It's packed. Patriot Secret Service say I'm here outside the Regal in downtown LA to see my final showing of Melania the bomb. I mean, the movie that guy just told me they've actually paid people to come see this movie, but I got the limited popcorn. Let's go in the theater and check this one out. I'm sitting in row F8 F for fraud. Um, and I've been told I'm the only person in this showing. Now, this is laughable.

6:36 There is just they don't even have like a proper sign. Never seen anybody talk about their mom's death with such little emotion. He just told Melania that he won and she didn't give a at all. Dear G, how are you? Nice story about J and the New York Mag. You look great on the picture. I know you are very busy flying all over the world. I've never seen so many people in a movie.

7:01 How was Palm Beach? I cannot wait to go down. Give me a call when you are back in New York. Have a great time. Love, Melania. steadfast. Most emptiest theater I've ever been in. This is great. I've never been able to stand in the front row of a movie. Nobody's asking me to sit down. This is great. Have you ever watched a movie this close? Is anybody in here?

7:26 Give me an E. Give me a P. Give me an S. Give me a T. Give me an E. Give me an I. Give me an N. What's that spell? Epstein files.

7:38 That is fraud. That is fraud. Nobody is in there. It was just me. Hey guys, how you doing?

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9:31 Then you had state regime media. You had people like Kaye Machinady saying when my mom went to see it there was it was standing room only here at play this clip.

9:40 It soared past expectations bringing in more than $7 million at the box office in its opening weekend. Now that is the most of any non-concert documentary in a decade. Now, Legacy Film reviewers were so certain that it wouldn't do well. Well, they would be wrong. Emily, my mom went to this this weekend in Florida. She said not only was the theater packed, it was, you know, standing room only if you could like try to sneak in the back of the theater. People were cheering through it. They were excited. It was interactive. People interplaying with the film. She said it was just electric.

10:12 Electric. Okay. So, so utterly embarrassing. And by the way, the director is Brett Ratner, who's all over the Epstein files, who has a lot of accusations against him, but he was the one who was picked. This is him right here. You see the photo of him, and he claims that that's his fiance, but doesn't know his fiance's name. Here's what Brett Ratner said when Piers Morgan asked him, "Who's that girl in the photo with you? And you're in the Epstein files. So, what do you make of it?" Watched Brett Ratner say, "I'm not going to say who she is, but she's my fiance." Here, play this clip. As you know, a picture came out of you with Jeffrey Epstein with two apparently young women in it. What is your response to that picture? And what is your response to the wider scandal of the Epstein files?

10:57 Oh, well that particular p that picture in particular happened I around 20 years ago. right out of 2019, 20 to 21 years ago because that is a photograph of my fiance who invited me to this event and that's where the picture was taken. I would never been in contact with Jeffrey Epson before that photo and I was never in contact with him after. So that's a picture of my me and my fiance at some event.

11:25 Wow. So who who was the fiance if you don't mind me asking? I you know she doesn't want me sharing her name in in in in the case but that's my fiance 100%.

11:36 Was my fiance still I'm not going to say you're not still with that? He's not engaged.

11:42 It's the the world's longest engagement 20 years. 20 years ago I was engaged to her when that photo was taken.

11:48 Right. Yes. And and and you your position is you never met Epstein before or after that picture that night?

11:55 No. Never. Never. And by the way, Melania's name is throughout the files as well. Um, like this email from Melania to Gileain Maxwell in 2002. Dear G, how are you? Nice story about J in New York magazine. You look great. Her nickname for Gileain was G. Jeffrey Epstein was great in New York Magazine. That was the article where Donald Trump said that Epstein likes girls on the younger side or women on the younger side. He's a great guy. J did great in the New York Magazine. Okay, that should be disqualifying right freaking there.

12:26 Did that make it in the movie, Melania? Then she goes, "You look great on the picture. I know you're very busy flying all over the world. How is Palm Beach? I cannot wait to go down. Give me a call when you're back in New York. Have a great time. Love, Melania." Right there. These are the files. I mean, just think about Melania is not on this email right here. I'll be clear about that. But you have emails like this in in these f these files are disgusting. I've done videos on the indictment that was never filed against Epste. Then you have unknown people sending Epstein messages like this. March 11, 2014. Thank you for the fun night. Your littlest girl was a little naughty. And by the way, you have Jeff Bezos shuttering the Washington Post, shutting it down. Basically firing almost half the staff today, firing people in war zones today while giving $70 million to the Melania movie. And by

13:14 the way, who the hell even knows the buyouts that they're doing in the way they got to seven or eight million. But the level of promotion that it got doing losing $60 million is not a W right there. But anyway, you saw this disastrous press conference of Melania promoting the movie. It's all of that. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million subscribers. Thanks everybody for watching. The truth is more important than ever. Check out our new Truth Over Lies collection at store.midestouch.com.

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Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "Melania SHUTS DOWN Presser over EPSTEIN FILES!!!"?

Melania Trump (Guest).

What is "Melania SHUTS DOWN Presser over EPSTEIN FILES!!!" about?

Melania Trump faced intense scrutiny during a press conference where she controversially used the release of hostages to promote her struggling movie. When pressed by a reporter about the appropriateness of her actions and her past connections to Jeffrey Epstein, Melania deflected questions, insisting that the event was solely about celebrating the hostages, not promoting her film.

What is mentioned in this MeidasTouch episode?

6 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Blaine & Robert Trump, Melania, Chislaine Maxwell, Jeff Bezos, Brett Ratner. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Melania SHUTS DOWN Presser over EPSTEIN FILES!!!"?

The episode runs 14 min; the transcript is about 2,485 words in 32 timestamped sections.

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