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A Ukrainian researcher has said Melania Trump may have walked straight into the Kremlin’s trap.

Petro Andrushchenko, head of the Center for the Study of the Occupation, was livid following a Russian drone strike at a train station in Dnipro, about 160 miles from Oleshky, on October 29. The attack killed 14 civilians and injured at least 14 more as they were waiting on the platform

“While screaming to the world how much he wants Melania Trump to mediate saving 1,500 people in Oleshky, Putin continues to kill civilians 10 minutes away from my house, continues to bomb Kyiv and Zaporizhzhia,” he told the Daily Beast.

“Now Putin will be a ‘humanitarian’ for moving people from Oleshky to Russia," he said. "The Oleshky operation is truly the greatest victory of Russian propaganda.”

The first lady hosted an event at the White House on Thursday with delegations from both Russia and Ukraine in attendance, where both sides praised her efforts to achieve peace.

She said she had “acted immediately” to secure a ceasefire in Oleshky and described herself as the “exclusive intermediary” between the hostile nations. The event lasted about 15 minutes, and the first lady did not take questions from the press.

Nearly 800 people were evacuated from Oleshky, according to the first lady. The frontline Russian-occupied city in the Kherson region has been trapped in a horrific war zone since 2022, with residents facing months of severe food shortages.

Andrushchenko was even more blunt about the propaganda surrounding the operation.

“Using Donald Trump and Melania as their façade, Russian propaganda is building a campaign in order to blame Ukraine, put the ‘genocide,’ hunger in Oleshky on our shoulders,” he said.

“They are allowing American journalists in; they have brought a bunch of dubious reporters from Moscow. Not sure how Ukraine is supposed to react.”

President Volodymyr Zelensky has awarded the first lady the Order of Princess Olha, 1st Class, for her humanitarian work supporting Ukraine, including efforts to bring Ukrainian children home.

The Daily Beast reports that Ukrainians have mixed feelings about Melania’s involvement in the Oleshky evacuation. It helped people escape Oleshky while Russian strikes continued elsewhere, including Dnipro. It may have set a precedent for more truces on the frontline, but critics said it also handed Russia a propaganda coup. The report also raised concerns that moving Ukrainians out of occupied territory contributed to ethnic cleansing.

“Melania Trump brokered a ceasefire without a single independent monitor in the room, and Russia used that gap to stage exactly the picture it wanted the world to see,” Lyudmyla Yankina of the Ukrainian human rights group Civil Fortis told the Daily Beast.

Special envoy Steve Witkoff came under fire from U.S. lawmakers and Ukraine for describing Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “humanitarian” following Russia’s release of U.S. citizen Stephen Hubbard on October 21.

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Trump’s war against ABC and Disney for platforming comedian Jimmy Kimmel has boomeranged on him, with the entertainment behemoth suing Trump’s FCC for violating their First Amendment rights. More recently, the FCC has challenged ABC’s broadcasting licenses.

Even a conservative newspaper is siding with ABC and Disney over the Trump administration.

“ABC sued the FCC on Tuesday for ‘coercing and retaliating’ because it ‘refuses to bow to the Administration’s demands,’” wrote The Wall Street Journal editorial board on Tuesday. “The lawsuit says the government has violated its First Amendment rights ‘by launching pretextual regulatory investigations and threatening the Stations’ valuable broadcast licenses.’”

Describing FCC Chairman Brendan Carr as a “mob-boss” and agreeing with the premise of the lawsuit, the Journal opined that Trump’s FCC is indeed violating “the First Amendment by letting the FCC interfere in editorial judgments and suppress disfavored content and viewpoints. ABC’s lawsuit says the FCC’s pressure has resulted in it ‘passing on further consideration of booking several political candidates,’ and none have appeared on the program since February.”

The Journal added that Carr once criticized Democratic administrations for violating free speech rights, and concluded that “in 2020 he lambasted a progressive media group for petitioning the FCC to censor broadcasts of Mr. Trump’s Covid press conferences, calling it a ‘dangerous and sweeping attempt by the left to weaponize the FCC.’

"It’s a shame Mr. Carr won’t defend ABC’s free-speech rights today," the board added.

Trump’s war against Kimmel began in September when he falsely claimed that the talk show host had disparaged the late right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk after he was assassinated. ABC initially took Kimmel’s show off the air but reversed course after a mass protest.

"But then, you know what happened?” Kimmel said at the time. “A Christmas miracle happened. Well, it was September, it was a September miracle. But the holiday does seem to come earlier and earlier every year, doesn’t it? Millions and millions of people stood up and said: ‘No, this is not acceptable’ ... Our show came back stronger than ever. We won, the president lost and now I’m back on the air every night giving the most powerful politician on earth a right and richly deserved bollocking.”

He added, “That’s a word, right? I used it properly?"

In April Kimmel again was in the spotlight when the administration falsely claimed that one of his jokes had inspired an assassination attempt against the president.

“Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country,” First Lady Melania Trump declared on social media at the time. “His monologue about my family isn’t comedy — his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America.”

She continued, “People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate. A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him. Enough is enough. It is time for ABC to take a stand. How many times will ABC’s leadership enable Kimmel’s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community.”

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Melania Trump demands ABC 'take a stand' against 'hateful' Jimmy Kimmel - Alternet.org

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President Donald Trump’s first lady, Melania Trump, issued an unexpected public statement on Thursday about her relationship with the late child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein — and one journalist has a theory to why.

“A new book was published yesterday in the US and UK, entitled ‘The Rise and Fall of The House of York,’” journalist Michael Wolff posted on the social media X on Thursday. “It's by a British journalist by the name of Andrew Loney, and it's about the life of Prince Andrew. But it is also about his connection to Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, and Melania Trump.”

Wolff added, “In fact, it contains a passage in which Epstein is quoted — apparently from a 2007 interview — where he says that he had sex with Melania a full year before Donald Trump commenced his relationship with her.”

New York Times writer Wajahat Ali offered a similar theory regarding Melania Trump’s surprise press conference.

“My speculation: Michael Wolff has said Epstein told him the first time Trump and Melania had sex was on Epstein's Lolita Express Jet,” Ali wrote on X. “He might release the audio of their interview or a similar story might confirm some of the sordid details. Melania is trying to get ahead of it.”

Trump, who was friends with Epstein from the 1980s until they had a falling out over a business transaction in the 2000s, is alleged to have sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl in the 1980s. In 2019, a woman who claimed to have been trafficked by Epstein as a teenager alleged that she was sexually assaulted by Trump on one of those trips. The White House denies the allegations, even though the Post and Courier later found additional details about the claim that did not make it into the formally-released files, including the names of four young teenage girls who were at a pool party attended by Epstein.

Even though they could verify the accuser’s claim through eyewitness accounts, one of them told the Post and Courier that the FBI never contacted her. They allege that Epstein “drove her and flew her” to New York and New Jersey to meet Trump, which is true would constitute sex trafficking as well as sexual assault.

Earlier this week, in his weekly Lincoln Project podcast, Rick Wilson mocked Trump’s failure to distract from the Epstein scandal, despite launching two wars since the start of 2026. He also alluded to a document that had been released pertaining to Epstein despite Trump’s increasingly-desperate efforts to keep the news out of the headlines.

"In it, Trump's attorney at the time, Alan Garten, I believe, is the name, revealed a few small things," Wilson said. "One of which is that Trump never threw Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago."

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President Donald Trump’s 19-year-old son Barron is reportedly close friends with Justin Waller, an influencer in the so-called “manosphere” who preaches mistreatment of women.

In the new Netflix documentary Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere, the 40-year-old Waller bragged that he had befriended Barron and in general joined Trump’s “inner circle.”

“I had dinner with Barron at Mar-a-Lago,” Waller said. “I met Donald that night. I’ve been to Mar-a-Lago four or five times.”

Manosphere influencers like Waller preach the belief that men are inherently superior to women and should be able to control women’s lives. They argue for patriarchal values in which women exist only to serve men domestically and sexually. Waller specifically advocates one-way monogamy wherein women are expected to be faithful to men but men are socially permitted to sleep with as many women as they desire.

Waller is not the only manosphere influencer to find his way into Barron Trump’s good graces. In December, The New York Times reported that Trump is close friends with Andrew Tate, another manosphere influencer who has been accused of multiple counts of sex trafficking and rape. Like Waller, Tate is an outspoken advocate of far right politics across the board, but focuses on teaching that men are superior to and should dominate women.

Thanks to Barron Trump’s instigation, Tate was allowed to leave Romania where he had been under house arrest since 2022 on allegations of coercing women into pornography, rape and pedophilia. Tate had previously been barred from leaving the country, but Barron Trump intervened to help him.

“I had word from The Trump admin that they’re on top of things,” Tate wrote at one point regarding the younger Trump’s assistance. “Ive been told I'll be free soon but Trump needs to see me in Miami.”

One month later, the Times reported, “an extraordinary order came down from the highest levels of the Romanian government” in which “the prosecutors were told to find a compromise with the Tates. Despite their misgivings, they lifted the travel restrictions, a move that Romania’s prime minister thought would appease the Trump administration.”

“We’re massively back,” Tate declared after the legal victory.

Although a legal adult, media outlets have traditionally been shy about covering the youngest Trump child in a critical way. First Lady Melania Trump has directly encouraged this, saying in January that Barron is “a child” and requires her constant supervision. Despite this kid gloves treatment, Trump is already worth $150 million according to the Nasdaq and is legally eligible to serve in the military, which he has refrained from doing despite his father provoking wars in Venezuela and Iran.

"America is strong because its leaders are strong. President Trump proves that every day,” declared the creators of a website called DraftBarronTrump.com. “Naturally, his son Barron is more than ready to defend the country his father so boldly commands. Service is honor. Strength is inherited. Dog (sic) Bless Barron.”

The site added, "This site is dedicated to honoring the strongest and bravest voices in war. When power is projected abroad, it is only right that strength exists at home. If you’re looking for proven genes, inherited courage, and unquestionable resolve, look no further than the Trump family. Leadership starts somewhere.”

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First Lady Melania Trump is leading the United Nations Security Council next week, and it's prompting some to wonder what the angle is for the Trumps to benefit.

Writing for The Guardian on Saturday, columnist Arwa Mahdawi explained, "It is my working hypothesis that there are only two reasons a Trump ever does anything: money or malice."

So, she speculated, what is behind the new decision to take Mrs. Trump away from her meme coin, coffee table books, and filmmaking?

"I’m not sure holding the gavel at Monday’s security council session is particularly lucrative, so file this one under 'malice,'" wrote Mahdawi. "Foisting Melania on the Security Council as the U.S. assumes the body’s rotating monthly presidency sends a clear message to the world about just how seriously the Trump administration takes the UN. It feels like an attempt to undermine the credibility of the UN and multilateralism more broadly."

She recalled Trump's overall hatred that manifested during the COVID-19 crisis toward the World Health Organization in 2020, along with his ongoing abandonment of 66 other international organizations.

Daniel Forti, head of UN affairs at the International Crisis Group, told NPR that the "symbolism is unequivocal."

"It’s that the US really wants to dictate its own terms to the rest of the multilateral system and wants to work with the UN in a way where it really sets the agenda," he said.

Several months ago, Trump announced he was forming his own group of the united nations called the "Board of Peace," where he, and only he, will be the leader, and joining will cost $1 billion. The president announced last week that he was handing over $10 billion in taxpayer dollars to run the organization, though those funds have not yet been approved by Congress. The current goal is to rebuild Gaza, he said, but during a speech before the meeting last week, Trump claimed they are "going to go far beyond Gaza."

Mahdawi sees it as nothing more than "a vehicle for rampant profiteering."

Behind the scenes, Mahdawi said that a number of diplomats are fearful that it will become a shadow version of the United Nations, that favors the Americans.

"All of which must be very exciting for our first lady, who is clearly keen to try her hand at international diplomacy," Mahdawi closed. "Perhaps, after her valuable work experience stint at the United Nations on Monday, Melania will also find herself a nice little role on the Board of Peace. And maybe Ivanka Trump, who the president once thought about installing as the head of the World Bank, will also return to public life. Whatever happens, I think we can all agree that we’re terribly lucky to have such a talented ruling family. FIFA, I hope you’re paying attention; time to give Melania her own peace prize, don’t you think?"

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Melania Trump will preside over the United Nations Security Council next week — a decision igniting backlash before it begins.

“First Lady Melania Trump is set to make history at the United Nations, taking the gavel as the United States assumes the Security Council Presidency to emphasize education’s role in advancing tolerance and world peace,” a press release from the Office of the First Lady reads.

“Mrs. Trump’s leadership will mark the first time a sitting U.S. First Lady presides over the Security Council as members consider education, technology, peace, and security.”

An opinion piece at The New Republic says, “While the first lady has shown an interest in children’s welfare, particularly in Russia’s war on Ukraine, it’s hard to imagine her address as any more than a symbolic gesture that will look good in a social media post.”

U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Mike Waltz, wrote: We are thrilled to have @Flotus gavel in the US Presidency of the Security Council.”

Critics online are blasting the decision.

“Just when you thought they couldn’t disrespect professional, career U.S. diplomats, American diplomacy or international organizations more- they produce this grotesque theatre of the absurd,” wrote former U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica, Luis Moreno.

Associate professor of History Thomas Småberg commented, “I’m a social network scholar with a focus on the Middle Ages and Trump’s uses of family, friends and followers is straight out of medieval aristocracy. It’s so interesting to [see] his abuse of presidential power and his disregard for Republicans.”

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A former Trump White House official claimed in a Monday Fox News appearance that a family member's screening of First Lady Melania Trump's documentary was packed enough to be "standing room only," a claim that was swiftly questioned and mocked by critics.

The film, simply titled, Melania, arrived in theaters under a shadow of controversy, with many observers accusing Amazon of buying the project for $40 million, an outlandishly high amount for any documentary, in an effort to bribe and curry favor with Donald Trump. Others lambasted the glossy and celebratory film as an attempt to distract from the ugliness of Trump's political agenda.

The film ultimately opened ahead of expectations with $7 million in its opening weekend, the highest opening for a documentary in a decade, after opening in 1,400 theaters and costing $40 million to produce and an extra $35 million to market. And when discussing the movie, Kayleigh McEnany, a former Trump White House press secretary turned Fox News contributor, made a big claim about how packed her mother's screening of the documentary had been.

"My mom went to see Melania. She said the theater was packed, it was standing room only," McEnany said. "People were cheering through it, they were excited. It was interactive — people interplaying with the film. She said it was just electric."

The claim came under heavy scrutiny, with various users pointing out that movie theaters never sell "standing room" access to screenings, for a variety of reasons. For one, having people standing in the theater is a violation of fire codes in most buildings, as it would impede the ability of attendees to evacuate. For another, "standing room only" policies generally exist for events that will only happen once at a venue, whereas movie theaters show most titles multiple times and encourage people to buy tickets for other showings when one sells out.

For all these reasons and more, various critics accused McEnany's story of being fake.

"What movie theaters allow standing room..." Semafor media editor Max Tani asked in a post to X.

"Uh-huh," journalist John Harwood wrote in his own post to X, a simple phrase he often deploys to cast doubt on claims from Trump officials and allies.

"I am now prepared to bet money on my earlier prediction that Trump is going to sue the Academy Awards when Melania isn’t nominated for Best Documentary," Meidas Touch editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski posted.

"I actually wish this happened and that video existed. (Though obviously it didn’t happen.)," Franklin Leonard, a film producer and founder of The Black List, posted.

"'People interplaying with the film' is actually hilarious," Justin Kanew, a journalist and founder of The Tennessee Holler, posted. "The sick part of all this is they aren’t even good liars."

"This is the biggest bag of b—— I’ve ever heard," Brian Ortega, a podcaster and entertainment industry commentator, posted. “'Standing room only.' Seriously? I witnessed Barbenheimer on opening day. Probably the biggest movie day in the past 5 years and the theaters were packed. Nobody was standing. This is such idiotic b——. $7 million against $40 million that’s a failure in this industry folks."

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Amazon reportedly put its staff in a tough position over its expensive documentary about First Lady Melania Trump,with the New York Times reporting workers were threatened with termination if they refused to work on the film for political reasons.

Sources within Amazon MGM Studios spoke with the Times about the contentious project, claiming that there were major concerns among studio staff and crew members over the political implications of the company's acquisition and release of the film. These concerns were met with a firm response from the company's top brass.

"Some employees in Amazon’s entertainment division had similar concerns, according to three sources with knowledge of discussions inside Amazon," the report explained. "They were told that the project was mandated by the company’s leadership and that employees could not opt out of working on the film for political reasons."

The circumstances surrounding Amazon's release of the documentary have led to persistent accusations that it is trying to curry favor with President Donald Trump's administration. The company acquired the rights to release the film after the president won reelection in 2024, and did so for $40 million, an outlandishly high amount compared to other successful documentaries. That winning bid from Amazon was more than double the second-place bid of $14 million from Disney.

The expenditure from Jeff Bezos's e-commerce giant only grew from there, as $35 million was spent to promote the project for a worldwide theatrical release. For comparison, the Times' report highlighted the "robust" production and release for CNN Films' RBG, a documentary about the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. That film cost only $1 million to produce and went on to make $14 million.

Given that films need to make roughly double their costs to break even theatrically, Amazon's Melania needs to make $150 million worldwide, a feat matched by only three documentaries in history. One of those films, Grand Canyon: The Hidden Secrets, has only grossed so much because it is an IMAX nature documentary that has played at a National Geographic visitor center since 1984.

The film's opening weekend projections currently sit at just $1-5 million.

“This has to be the most expensive documentary ever made that didn’t involve music licensing,” Ted Hope, an Amazon Studios employee from 2015 to 2020 credited as "instrumental" in building up the film division, told the Times. “How can it not be equated with currying favor or an outright bribe? How can that not be the case?”

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The New York Post reportsHunter Biden does not appear intimidated by lawsuit threats from first lady Melania Trump.

“F—— that. That’s not going to happen,” Biden said during a Thursday interview on the YouTube show ."

“I don’t believe in guilt by association alone, but the connections are … so glaringly obvious that I think they’re trying to use other things to distract,” Biden continued. “And I also think they’re bullies, and they think that a billion dollars if gonna scare me.”

Melania Trump threatened to sue Biden for $1 billion if he doesn’t retract statements linking her to accused sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. She took issue with comments Biden referenced claiming Epstein introduced the first lady to now-President Donald Trump. Melania Trump’s lawyer, Alejandro Brito claimed Biden’s statements are false, defamatory and “extremely salacious,” which are causing the first lady “to suffer overwhelming financial and reputational harm.”

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But Biden says he’s repeating information from other sources.

“What I said was what I have heard and seen, reported and written, primarily from Michael Wolff, but also dating back all the way to 2019 when the New York Times, I think … reported that sources said that Jeffrey Epstein claimed to be the person to introduce Donald Trump to Melania at that time,” Biden said in the interview that attracted Trump’s attention.

Trump’s lawyers have had recent success in pushing for retractions, reports The New York Post. Her team issued similar threats to the Daily Beast, which retracted an article, and it pressed Democratic strategist James Carville to apologize and retract a podcast episode in which he speculated there was an “Epstein connection” involving the first lady.

But Biden said in his video that he is eager to get to the deposition phase of the Trumps’ suit.

“If they want to sit down for a deposition and clarify the nature of their relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and the first lady and the president — if they want to do that, and all the known associates around them at the time they met — I’m more than happy to provide them the platform to do it,” Biden said.

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'Unethical' and 'corrupt': Melania Trump slammed over 6-figure fee for political event - Alternet.org

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Handful of investors make $100M off Melania memecoin dump

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'Melania grift': Incoming first lady hawks her Christmas 'collectibles' in Fox interview

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'Unethical' and 'corrupt': Melania Trump slammed over 6-figure fee for political event

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While Mr. Clark oversaw environmental cases, sometimes working late into the night and personally reviewing briefs, the department’s civil division was in turmoil. Its leader, Jody Hunt, sometimes clashed with the White House Counsel’s Office and, later on, with Attorney General William P. Barr, over how best to defend the administration.

Mr. Hunt resigned with no warning in July, leaving his deputy to run the division while Mr. Barr and Mr. Rosen searched for an acting leader among the department’s thinned-out ranks. Mr. Clark wanted the job, which was a considerable step up in stature, and Mr. Rosen supported the idea even though he was already a division head, according to three people with knowledge of the situation.

After he took the helm of the civil division in September, colleagues began seeing flashes of unusual behavior. Mr. Clark’s name appeared on eyebrow-raising briefs, including what would turn out to be anunsuccessful effort to inject the government into a defamation lawsuit against Mr. Trump by a woman who has said he raped her more than two decades ago. He also signed onto an attempt to use the Justice Department to sue a former friend of the first lady at the time, Melania Trump, for writing a tell-all memoir.

He made clear to lawyers who produced draft briefs that they must spell out his name in full, Jeffrey Bossert Clark, according to a former official.

Others said he mounted an idiosyncratic push to remove the word “acting” from his official title — acting assistant attorney general of the civil division — citing an old department legal opinion from the 1980s. Officials denied his request.

ken starr his ticket back into pension plan? aha-let, everyone has their niche/function eg renta-X; eg kellyanne defends 1st lady melania on fake outrage on barron

https://www.alternet.org/2019/02/emails-reveal-melania-friend-who-planned-trump-inauguration-ripped-officials-over-sketchy-money-practices/

friend of Melania Trump’**s who planned the president’s inauguration flagged multiple financial and conflict of interest issues when working on the events — and was ignored.

Vanity Fair‘s Emily Jane Fox reported Thursday thatStephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former Vogue staffer and New York City event planner, was brought on to plan Donald Trump’s inauguration just days after he was elected president. She had no idea what was in store for her.

According to people familiar with recordings made by former Trump “fixer” Michael Cohen, Wolkoff can be heard telling the president’s longtime attorney during conversations last summer that she had many concerns with the process that unfolded.

Those recordings, Cohen told the event planner, were later seized by the FBI — and led in part to the SDNY’s investigation into the inauguration that Wolkoff is now involved in.

Wolkoff, the report noted, eventually raised concerns about potential conflicts of interest that could stem from the Trump family businesses’ involvement in the planning — as well as those surrounding deputy inauguration chairman Rick Gates and Tom Barrack, the longtime Trump friend who served as the inaugural chair.

Gates, Fox wrote, “approached a couple individuals working on the inauguration and asked if they would be willing to be paid directly for their work by a donor, rather than by the inaugural committee.”

“They had received more donations than they’d initially anticipated, Gates told these people,” the report noted. “Skirting the usual payment route could allow the inaugural committee to avoid reporting the full amount raised from donors.”

Wolkoff reportedly raised concerns about the deputy chair with the First Lady, expressing her view that “he exacerbated a situation already fraught with potential conflicts of interest.”

She also questioned Gates and Barrack directly about budget issues, people familiar with the conversations told Vanity Fair — and found she was being left out of meetings soon after.

“Because part of her responsibilities included reviewing all budgets from her vendors and presenting them to other members of the inaugural committee, she studied the line items in order to be able to explain them,” Fox wrote. “At points, she could not justify the numbers coming in. After circulation of a quote from one of their largest event-production vendors, Hargrove LLC, Wolkoff was shocked that no one in the organization appeared willing to question the figures.”

In an email to Barrack and her staff on December 31, 2016, Wolkoff made her displeasure known.

“I am DISGUSTED by [Hargrove’s] lack of transparency and entitlement to [the Presidential Inaugural Committee’s] funding,” she wrote. “I can not approve any budget line items because I do not have a clue what these numbers represent!!”

She was particularly concerned about Barrack’s “chairman’s dinner,” which took up ample attention and money, the report noted. Along with Cohen, former RNC finance chairman Elliott Broidy and disgraced Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, invitees included seven “foreign ministers” for Saudi Arabia, one from Qatar and one from the United Arab Emirates.

djt promised presser to prove she worked legally, never happned

https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/melania-trump-urging-president-oust-national-security-official-after-clashing

Trump's long-expected post-midterms White House shakeup is underway, with Attorney General Jeff Sessions being the first to get the boot. But a much larger White House exodus is being planned, reportedly including Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen and Chief of Staff John Kelly.

But there are others expected to get pink slips.

A Trump administration top national security official is reportedly also on the firing list, for reasons that appear to have nothing to do with national security.

"The president has also decided to remove Mira Ricardel, the top deputy for national security adviser John Bolton, officials said," The Wall Street Journal reports.

"The president became involved in that decision at the urging of first lady Melania Trump, whose staff battled with Ms. Ricardel during the first lady’s trip to Africa last month over seating on the plane and requests to use National Security Council resources, according to people familiar with the matter." the Journal notes.

The conflict with Ricardel may be among the reasons Trump wants to give Kelly the boot.

NBC News adds questions about Kelly's "future in the White House recently became more serious after his repeated clashes with national security adviser John Bolton and his deputy, Mira Ricardel."

Kelly has been battling with the First Lady's staff, denying them promotions.

One White House official told NBC News there "have been instances where the East Wing staff were not treated as equals to the male-dominated decision makers in Chief Kelly’s office."

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Every living first lady — including Melania — has condemned the policy of separating immigrant families caught illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. It is a rare moment of bipartisan unity from the women who make up the small sorority of presidential spouses.

In the past few days, Laura Bush, Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama and Rosalynn Carter all spoke out against the Trump administration's border policy.

The issue, which is dominating national headlines, first drew a statement from the current occupant of the White House's East Wing on Sunday afternoon, with Mrs. Trump saying to CNN that she "hates to see children separated from their families and hopes both sides of the aisle can finally come together to achieve successful immigration reform."

Hours later, Mrs. Bush published a full-throated op-ed for The Washington Post calling camps set up to house the children taken from their parents "eerily reminiscent of the Japanese American internment camps of World War II."