The MeidasTouch Podcast - Melania’s Dark Past Surfaces as GOP Shuts Down Investigation?!!

Episode Date: April 23, 2026

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports Melania’s dark past surfacing and Meiselas shares his opinion of the connections regarding Trump and the GOP potentially pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell and the GOP trying to shut down congressional hearings, depositions, and subpoenas. Get up to 10% OFF @HEXCLAD when you visit https://Hexclad.com/MEIDAS Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show The Ken Harbaugh Show: https://meidasnews.com/tag/the-ken-harbaugh-show Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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to allegedly evade service, and where Michael Wolfe alleges that Melania Trump is pretending to be from Florida, so she can get the federal case transferred to a Florida federal court when he put forth a lot of evidence to suggest that she lives in New York. The federal judge has gone silent, very unusual for no activity on the docket since February 27th. What else is happening as Melania's dark past is surfacing? Gilaine Maxwell sent a mysterious USB hard drive to the Justice Department days after Melania Trump sought to distance herself from the pair's heinous sex crimes. And to be clear, the pair is Gielane Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. Melania Trump said that she has nothing to do with them.

And all of the emails and the text messages and the photos are fake and fabrications. Right. Melania held that press conference. Well, now a mysterious USB hard drive was sent by, Gilane Maxwell to the Department of Justice, and the Department of Justice disclosed it to the federal judge, but said, Judge, there's nothing to see here. It's likely just duplicative of other things that have been filed in this case. So don't even worry about it. We're not even really going to pay attention to it. What else is happening as Melania Trump's dark past is surfacing? Well,

we've learned that Maga Mike Johnson and James Comer and other MAGA Republicans in the House of representatives at Donald Trump's direction, they are trying to shut down all further hearings about anything to do with Epstein, anything to do with Geelaine, and try to shut down other house hearings as well. What they're trying to do now until the midterms is hold roundtables instead of hearings so that subpoena powers can't be used, under oath depositions can't be taken and there can be just round tables, which is fascinating because whose deposition is likely going to happen soon? Remember, it's the witness who Melania Trump fears the most. Amanda Ungaro. About three weeks ago, you probably didn't even know the name Amanda Ungaro, but she was in a relationship

with Paulo Zompoli, the guy who introduced Melania to Donald Trump, allegedly at the Kit Kat Club in the late 1990s. Zampoli ran a modeling agency where he would bring in young Eastern European girls and women for his modeling agency. And he would throw parties at the Kit Kat Club with the girls and the ladies who were the models from Europe. And he would introduce them the models to wealthy Manhattan businessmen. He would play matchmaker between wealthy businessmen and the models.

He introduced Melania to Donald Trump at one such party, and then he helped expedite Melania Trump's visa. He got her in Epstein visa, which is for like being a genius and being in the top of your field, which is odd because she, in my opinion, wasn't any of those things. But his girlfriend was Amanda Ungaro. She met him, she says, when she was only 15 years old, she was brought here by one of Epstein's trafficking. traffickers, Jean-Luc Brunel. Brunel died allegedly by suicide in a French prison under similar, curious, and unusual circumstances as Epstein. But that's how she was trafficked here or brought here by Jean-Luc Brunel, Epstein's guy.

And then she later met Apollo Zampoly. Zampoli was, he's in the Epstein files and he brags about being. He's like, you're cool if you're in the Epstein files or something. words to that effect. Only the only smart people are like famous people are in the Epstein file, something very strange. And he was thinking about starting a modeling agency with Epstein. But she was with this Paulo Zambole guy for like two decades. And Zompoly, because he introduced Melania to Donald, when Trump won the first term, he was invited to all the White House events. And now he's basically been made a United States ambassador. And so she has, she has,

had a fallout with him recently over a child custody issue over their son. It was reported that he helped get Angaro deported to Brazil. He denies that he contacted ICE to expedite the process. The New York Times wrote a story that he called ICE. He disputes that the call led to any expediting of her being deported, but she's in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil now. And she's like, you took my son, I have nothing to lose, so I'm going to expose everything. I'm going to expose you. I'm going to expose Melania. I'm going to bring everybody down. Words to that effect, of course. Apollo Zampoli's been freaking out. He's been making posts like this. Notice to all media outlets, my son and I are victims of an extortion attempt by a John Doe family. This was reported on April 6th to

the FBI and Miami-Dade Police. We have an ongoing investigation, all disinformation and defamatory statements about me and my son will be, he says he's going to hold people accountable. Then he does a second notice three days ago. Second notice to all media outlets, we confirm that legal actions are currently underway across multiple jurisdictions, including the United States, Italy, and Brazil. Our legal team is actively identifying and pursuing all individuals, entities, and accounts involved in the dissemination of false misleading and defamatory content. Any media outlet or individual that publishes, supports, or amplify such content will be

included in a class action lawsuit and held accountable to the fullest extent of law. Just to also give you a sense of what Paulo Zumpoli's done in the past 24 hours, he's been appointed by Donald Trump to ban the Iranian football team, or if you're in the U.S. soccer team, from playing in the World Cup. Now, Iran qualified for the World Cup. Italy did not qualify for the World Cup. And now Donald Trump wants to ban the Iranian soccer team. as punishment for Trump's unlawful invasion of Iran.

So a top envoy, Paulo Zampoli, is now trying to work with Gianni Infantino, the head of FIFA, the really corrupt guy who's always with Donald Trump and like gave Trump the FIFA gold cup, in order to replace Iran with Italy and to bring Italy in the World Cup. And Infantino is Swiss and Italian, and he wants to bring the Italian team in. That's what he's doing right now. There's a lot going on, of course. All right, listen up. It's spring cleaning season, and before you tell yourself, your kitchen is fine, go take a hard look at that pan you've been using since college.

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Do you fully understand the extent of the information I possess regarding you and the individuals associated with you? I strongly advise you to consider the seriousness of these matters. Any actions taken against me or attempts to escalate this situation could have significant legal consequences. I expect to be handled with the appropriate level of responsibility and professionalism moving forward. And then she gave an interview with Courier, which was translated from Portuguese into English, where she said, the first time I had contact with Zampoli was when I was 15 years old. I can state that starting from the first meetings, Zampoli began harassing me in an attempt to pursue an intimate relationship.

That's her allegations, not Zampoli, that's what she says. When and under what circumstance did you meet Melania? I was introduced to Melania by Paolo Zampoli at the time. We were already dating, and that is when I was introduced to her. When you testify before the House Oversight Committee? Absolutely. Did Melania personally threaten you? If so, in what way and when?

Melania felt threatened. And while she did not threaten me directly, She knows that I witnessed highly compromising interactions over the course of 20 years. She does not know the full extent of what I know, for I lived with Paulo for 20 years. She does not know the full extent of what I know, and she did not threaten me directly, but she knows I witnessed highly compromising interactions over the past 20 years. So now you piece this together. The Trump-loving federal judge in New York has basically

frozen the docket. You have Congress freezing the hearings and saying informal roundtables, no more subpoenas. You have a mysterious hard drive being sent by Gilein Maxwell. At the same time, Melania said she has no contact with Glein and they never really knew each other. Sure, they were in the same circles, but any of the photos are fake. Everything's fake, according to Melania. And then you have the fact that Republicans in the House of Representatives, though, at the same time, Gilein Maxwell, by the way, we know Gilein Maxwell, those with the email from Glein calling Melania Sweet P and them wanting to hang out. And Melania saying to Glein, you were great, you were great or you look great in the New York Magazine article and Jeffrey Epstein was great. And they seem to know each other, you know, at least at some level of familiarity, in my opinion, based on the those emails. Gilei knows a lot. Angaro knows a lot. Zampoli knows a lot. And remember, Zampoli said that he would testify before a congressional hearing. I think he was pressured, in my opinion, to do that by Melania because there were rumors that Epstein introduced Melania

to Trump. And Melani said that never happened. Those rumors are false and defamatory. It was Zompoly who made the introduction. Well, Zompoli and Epstein, one of the first. wanted to buy modeling agencies together. And Zampoli, okay, Zampoli introduced you. I'm not really sure that that really makes that much of a difference, but she's like, it's Zompoli. And Zampoli is like, I'm happy to testify. But then now Congress is like, no more testimony from anybody at all.

We're canceling hearings. We're doing roundtables. And then we learned that Congress, Republicans in Congress, are trying to pardon Geylane. James Comer told Politico, that there are lots of Republicans who would like to see her pardoned because they think that'll help her testify truthfully, even though she's a known liar, a perjurer, an age sex trafficker. But like, we should pardon her.

And he said there are Republicans working with Donald Trump to pardon Gilein Maxwell. So, Democratic Congress member, Raja Krishnamorthy, sent this letter to Todd Blanche after Gielaine's lawyer has been bragging that he believes Gleyn's going to get a pardon. Are you piecing all of these things together, starting with Melania's dark past surfacing? Take all of this information and assess it collectively. Here's the letter from Raja Christnemorty, Democratic Congress member. He goes, I'm writing to express my discuss at the DOJ reported willingness to pardon Gleine Maxwell.

Last week, David Oscar Marcus, Gielane Maxwell's attorney, said, there's a good chance and for good reason that Maxwell would get a pardon. It's unacceptable that the DOJ would be engaging at all with such an outrageous request. Then he talks about how Gilein was moved from the minimum secure, from a maximum security facility in Tallahassee to Club Fed in Camp Ryan, Texas. And then he goes on to talk about how the Epstein files have made. covered up by the Trump regime. Then it goes on to say the following. Following the dismissal of Attorney General Bondi in connection with the department's handling of the Epstein files, you're the acting attorney general, you must immediately reopen and fully resource the department's investigation into the sex trafficking operation. You must also publicly and repeatedly refuse to engage with

Ghislaine Maxwell on any presidential pardons that would excuse her from serving out her full sentence. survivors deserve answers and those responsible must be held accountable this is not a question of politics it is a matter of justice and so you know who's taunting milania though now a lot about all the stuff the iranians the iranians are taunting milania a lot they did a new lego video roasting milania yesterday did you see this one play this clip good afternoon good afternoon she reached from her page the rumors have been building up it is time to turn the piece She says the lives must end of day. She wants the record straight.

She cleared her schedule just for this. She could not wait. The stories on the internet have gotten out of hand. Fake pictures, fake connections, none of them were planned. She said she never knew this man the way the tabloids say. She is here at the podium to clear it all away. And then they did one on her called Epstein Queen, which I shared with you about two weeks ago.

Play this clip. Epstein Queen. Kirsteen Queen. Kissing on the lips. Living that scene. She says, Never friends with a straight face lie, but the files got Trump by the balls. Now finally, with all of this happening, the American people hate Melania.

She's the most hated First Lady by far. Usually First Ladies aren't even hated. Like they usually, even if their husbands are hated as presidents, first ladies, not like hated. Melania is hated. And I think this really gets to her because I think deep down she thinks that she's like this. What did she say? Visionetti. I'm a vision. I'm a visionary. If you are visionary like me, I won't do the accent. Anyway, did I, did I put, I play the Epstein Queen video. Play the polling on Melania. Let's play it. And you also, I'm saying you have new numbers

or another look at the impact or the appeal that she, her appeal after her documentary. Yeah, okay. So you ask in question number one, you say, why? What is one of the reasons why? And I think one of the reasons why was this documentary. I think a lot of of people saw it as political, even if she didn't want it to be. And you could just see it here. This is real world data. This is not just the polling data that shows the lack of appeal, historic lack of appeal that she has for her first lady. Look at the sum of Melania's budget sheet. Look at this. The budget rights in marketing, $75 million. That was what is estimated to have been spent by Amazon. Compare that to the box office, both domestic and international combined.

We're talking about $17 million. That makes this a bomb. There was a lot of talk when the film came out, hey, you know, it had a good opening weekend, but then basically it stopped making money. So unless Amazon is able to make this up through streaming, this is going to be a historic bomb. Amazon spent a ton of money on it. And look at that. Simply put, the money was not made back. That coalesces, that combines with the polling data to say that Melania Trump is historically unpopular for a first lady. So folks, I'm sharing with you my opinion as protected by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, opinion speech on a newsworthy matter, right? That's what this video is.

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