With the same attorney that successfully sued Gawker on behalf of Hulk Hogan, Melania Trump has now undertaken the same tactic that Donald Trump accuses Hillary Clinton of having taken during her spouse’s period of sexual infidelity allegations: Discredit the accuser.
As reported on Politico, the attorney demand letter specifies three, and exactly three, statements in the People magazine article last Friday that are “actionable”:
1. “That winter, I actually bumped into Melania on Fifth Avenue, in front of Trump Tower as she walked into the building, carrying baby Barron.”
2. “‘Natasha, why don’t we see you anymore?’ she asked, giving me a hug.”
3. “I was quiet and smiled, telling her I’d missed her, and I squeezed little Barron’s foot.”
The true facts are these: Mrs. Trump did not encounter Ms. Stoynoff on the street, nor have any conversation with her. The two are not friends and were never friends or even friendly.
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I find it very interesting that no part of the actual events of the sexual assault described by Natasha Stoynoff are disputed — not the occasion of Stoynoff coming to the estate to interview Trump, not Trump cornering Stoynoff in a bedroom behind a closed door, not the interview itself, and not anything else that would be inconsistent with Stoynoff’s version of what happened on the night that mattered.
If all Melania can do is provide a blanket denial of the chance encounter that Stoynoff described, then this has got to be one of the most pathetic attempts to discredit and shame a sexual assault accuser imaginable.
Better think of another plan, Ms. Trump. This one ain’t working.