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Melania's Absence Raises Questions as Trump's Past Resurfaces

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Melania Trump going missing as Donald Trump's dark past surfaces and as his term continues to unravel. Make laundry day the best day of the week! Get 20% off...

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Entdecke weitere Angebote, in deinem Aldi Nord. Aldi, gutes für alle. Melania Trump has effectively disappeared. She's nowhere to be found. She hasn't been seen anywhere near or around the White House.

This has Donald Trump continues to bring up his dark past and her dark past in ways that are deeply disturbing. I'll get to it in a moment. The last post from Melania Trump July 30th, where she tried to take credit for facilitating a fifth Ukraine Russia family reunification.

She doesn't say the names of the people she's reunifying, but she claims she's reunified

some Ukrainian and Russian families, which would look objectively, be good if she actually

did it. Who the heck knows? I don't know. But we do know that their mass of strikes by Russia and Ukraine killing lots of children. So I'm not sure this is a spike the football moment where you want to be giving yourself

awards. I'll show you her fixer Mark Beckman has been making his rounds saying she deserves awards, give her awards, give her awards, while she's MIA, while she's effectively disappeared from the White House. I mean, where the heck is she at this point?

Let me show you what Mark Beckman her fixer. He's been making his rounds and he was asked by Newsmax, which is a form of state regime media. Whereas Melania has she disappeared because of the threats against her life and against

Baron's life from Iran, is that why she's nowhere to be found?

And Mark Beckman kind of sheepishly goes, no, no, no, we've got big announcements, we're going to be making huge announcements, we're going to be making. Listen to what he says here, play this clip. This heart-stopping threat out of Iran, on the first lady in Baron Trump, a lot of people have speculated this is the reason we've seen a lower profile of the first lady in the

last couple of weeks. Any truth to that theory, Mark? No, not at all. The first lady is not deterred because of these threats. Unfortunately, she realizes it's part of the role these days.

It's sad.

She'd like to see peace in Iran, but the reality is that this is part of the role and

she keeps moving forward and the evidence is this reunion. And we have actually another big project that you'll see happening towards the end of August around August 20th or so, which is very exciting too. So she remains committed to her position, and it's not stopping or these threats are just, you know, every day work for her and unfortunately we'll look forward to seeing you

back in the August for that next evolution, Mark Beckman, always great to talk to you. Good to see you. Thank you so much. Now, this is at the same time, Donald Trump has effectively turned the Malani at part of the White House, the East Wing into a military target, Donald Trump's been posting

images of where the East Wing used to be, where he now wants his ballroom, which was blocked by the DC circuit court of appeals. He keeps on posting all throughout the night, drone port, drone port, and then he has these gigantic drones on top of the roof, turning the East Wing into a military target. I'm not sure it's the best idea to turn the White House into a military facility.

There are military facilities that do that. But anyway, that would be Malani's portion of the White House. I want to talk about what Donald Trump said, though, which brings up his dark past, and then I'm going to talk about what Malani is fixer is doing as well. But Donald Trump yesterday said something that reminded us a lot of something he previously

said. He said, when you're the president, they let you get away with it. You can remove things from any building. I like the chandelier. I grab the chandelier.

I like those columns. I grab those columns. I'm allowed to do it. When you're the president, they let you get away with it. I'm going to grab everything.

What does that remind you of? The Axis Hollywood tapes when Donald Trump says when you're rich, they let you get away with it. You can grab women by their generals. That's what Donald Trump said.

Donald Trump said when you're rich in famous, they let you do it.

Remember how sick and disturbing he was?

Let me show you a Donald Trump said here that I want to talk about some bad news, not just for Malani, but also for Baron, that I want to show you how her fixer is handling this. This is what Donald Trump said though at the White House, yesterday on a Friday, about when you're the president, you grab things. You can grab them however you want.

Here play this clip right here. What we are, people just didn't know that for a while. I want to thank a great secretary of state, Marco Rubio, for hosting us. It's beautiful building, but.

You know, I look at the president's allowed to remove things from any buildin...

liking the she and the liars. I really, I like those Corinthian columns, but I'm cutting them out would be not good. There's a beautiful columns, but I'm allowed to do it.

Everyone said well, I'll come in here and grab a painting and put it at the oval office, right?

But not too much, but I want to thank Marco. So now with all of that going on, Melania's fixer, Mark Beckman, he's been making the rounds. He went on state regime media, real America's voice on the Eric bowling show, and he talked about how one of the big initiatives that they're pushing for is Melania to receive awards.

They want her to get an award because her work is so incredible, and he wants Eric

bowling's help that because she's reunified family, she deserves an award here play this clip. And I believe that she is evolving, not just the office of the first lady, but the entire East Wing. That's happening now.

You see her as I argue the most consequential first lady in history, and you see that work ethic, that high level, that standard of being impactful in the movie and in the docu series, now if you take a second and think about what she's done so far, since the 47th administration started, it's remarkable, Eric. I mean, starting with this fifth reunification between Ukrainian and Russian children and

their families, I'm sure you would agree. No first lady in history of the United States has done this level of humanitarian work.

In fact, I think that we should, or somebody should be acknowledging there should be some

level of recognition for the humanitarian work that she's done today. And then he goes on Newsmax, another form of state regime media malanius fix, or again, she's MIA. I mean, she's disappeared. Where the heck is she?

And then Mark Beckman is like, she reunited Israeli families from Gaza. How about all of the Palestinians who were killed in Gaza as well? How about that? I mean, you know, you're getting, you're spiking the football and saying, look at all these great things she did.

There's a catastrophic war going on right now, uh, with Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Okay. There's a genocide going on in Gaza and you're focused on giving her a Gaza award. What's up with all you people needing awards? Why, why, you need awards everywhere here play this clip.

Jason, she's also worked in, uh, leading to the freedom of Israeli hostages in Gaza. And the rest of the remarkable level of humanitarian work here for the First Lady. Because they said, uh, she should be recognized family for the humanitarian work. It would be nice and up and talk to it. And then Beckman announces that Malania and Bezos will be doing a new docu-series together

where you'll get new insight into Malania for all the Malania fans out there, which is apparently

probably just Mark Beckman, uh, you're going to get to see a side of her you've never

seen before. I know everybody's really excited about this doc, it's a new docu-series. Because the documentary, which lost all of that money, which grows 16.6 million after costing $75 million was so successful, losing nearly $60 million that it was like, let's do it again.

Let's do it again. Let's give her awards. The hell, here play this clip. Well, here's the thing. So this fall, we are following the film with a, uh, docu-series surrounding the First

Ladies surrounding Malania Trump, it's a completely different, uh, look at her world. It's a completely, it's shot entirely different, and it gives the viewers a little bit of a peek as to what happens right at the beginning of the new 47th presidential administration.

You might remember, if you saw the film, we only captured 20 days of the first lady's life.

We opened the window a little bit into her private life, her marriage, her family. We opened a little deeper into her career as well as her philanthropy, but with the docu-series, it's a little bit different, it's shot different, it's a different story, it's a full new experience for the viewers, and that's going to be coming this fall.

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Democratic Congresswoman Ansari said some of her first subpoenas are going to go to Barron.

And Eric and Don Jr. and Ivanka and Jared Kushner, but she wants to see Barron be deposed because where's Barron? Remember where's Hunter? I know we're Hunter as we see him all the time, but the big focus is going to be on taking Barron's deposition, subpoenaing Barron, putting him under oath and asking him about potential crypto ventures, about his relationship with the tape brothers because they've said that their friends with

him, or they said that, you know, he was, you know, that day it's spoken to him during

the 2024 election. And the tape brothers had a message, I think, for Trump and for Barron.

This is what their longtime advisor said. So, you know, the tapes, they were partying with Polo Zampoli and Florida over the past several weeks before being arrested in DC. Remember, Polo Zampoli introduced Melania to Trump at the Kidcat Club in the late 90s. Zampoli ran a modeling agency for Eastern European women, young Eastern European women and girls. He'd bring them over to the United States. He'd throw parties where the girls

and young women would meet the rich men at the Kidcat Club. Balania worked for Polo Zampoli. And he introduced them at the Kidcat Club. Melania described the Kidcat Club. It's just one of the most glamorous things there ever was. Anyway, the tape brothers were parting with Zampoli Zampoli's an ambassador right now. He's got a top level position. And that's how's a poli felt. Some poli's parting with the tape brothers. Then the tape brothers

got arrested for, was at 38 additional sex crime related charges from the UK. And they got arrested in Florida. The tape brothers got arrested in Florida. They were partying in DC. Then they went to Florida. They were arrested in Florida, I should say. And so what they're saying right now is the following. Andrew Tate was a material participant in ensuring

Trump's victory. And they said basically that it would be unwise for them to be thrown

under the bus by Trump and barren and others right now. Because they said, we were material to the victory. Just to remind you what Trump said on the axis. Hollywood compared the clip I showed you before of Trump saying the president is allowed to remove things and do whatever he wants. This was leaked audio from the set of the Axis Hollywood back in 2015-2016. Let's play it. I'm moving on her actually. You know, she was on a Palm Beach. I moved on her and

I fell all in. I did try and she was married. She was there. No, Nancy. And I moved on her very heavily. In fact, I took her out furniture shopping. She wanted to get some furniture. And I'll say you would have some nice furniture. I took out furniture. I moved on her like

a ****. I couldn't get there. And she was married. In all of a sudden, I see you should

now get the big money. She's totally changed her look. You simply took that just in case I started kissing her. You know, I'm automatically attracted to you. I just started kissing them. It's like a magnet. I don't even know what. And when you start, they let you do it. You can do anything. Whatever you want. Grab them by the ****. Just so you remember what Donald Trump said when he was deposed about that Axis Hollywood

here's when he said let's play it. And you say it again, this has become very famous in this video. I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy. You could do anything. That's what you said, girl. Well, historically, that's true with stars. It's true with stars that they can grab women by the pussy. Well, that's what

it's, if you look over the last million years, I guess it's been largely true, not always,

but largely true, unfortunately, unfortunately, unfortunately. And you consider yourself

to be a star. I think you can say that. Yeah. And while we're at it, here's how

Melania. When Melania was asked about Donald Trump saying that he grabs women by their

Generals because he's rich.

back then as well. Let's play it. I was surprised because that is not the man that I know.

And as you can see from the tape, the cameras were not on. It was only a mic. And I wonder if they even knew that the mic was on because they were kind of a boy talk. And he was lead on like egg on from the host to say, dirty and bad stuff. You feel the host Billy Bosch was kind of egging him on? Yes. Yes. Is that language you had heard

him use before? No. No. That's why I was surprised because I said, like, I don't know

that person, that would talk that way. And that he would say that kind of a stuff in private. I heard many different stuff. Boys talk. I, the boys that the way they talk when they grow up and they want to, sometimes show each other or the, and finally, should be noted that

Donald Trump had always said during the 2015 campaign, he was going to hold the press conference

about Melania's immigration status back in 2015. He said, just in two weeks, I'll do the press conference in two weeks. And he never did the press conference. And a lot of people have a lot of questions about Melania's arrival into the United States, what she was doing in the United States and how she got a visa and what did she represent and whether she was here appropriately or not appropriately and what she was really doing here and why she

lied at least publicly about graduating from a university that she didn't graduate from. Those are all questions that still need to be answered. And those are questions we all still need to answer. She doesn't need more awards over to receive awards, especially just sick

that that's what they want awards right now. There are people dying right now, every day in

Gaza, every day in Lebanon, every day in Ukraine, every day in the region in general, getting killed and you want awards, you want awards. And who are these people being where you're going to find? Do we get to know who they are? Do we see their names? Do we see photos? Are they Russians? Are they Ukrainians? Who are they? And don't you think that it provides a little bit of cover to Putin right now? While he reigns down 30 ballistic missiles a day on Ukraine,

while your husband Donald Trump or whatever you want to call him, have to tap Zelensky along and didn't give interceptors or interceptor licenses? Don't you think you may be giving cover to Putin? I'm giving you my opinion. Remember this video is my, if you don't like my

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