Rachel Hurley
The only reason why I still have a Twitter account is that that's where you find the real tea
As you all know, Melania Trump held a press conference yesterday to tell the country she has nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. Nobody asked her to. Her husband says he didn't know she was gonna do it. Her own staff didn't know the topic until she started talking. The Epstein story had basically died down, 'cause everyone's been focused on Iran. And she just walked out there and revived it.
So why now?
Her adviser said "enough is enough" and "the lies must stop."
Sure. But she did something weird.
She acknowledged the 2002 email she sent Ghislaine Maxwell, the one where she complimented a New York magazine profile of Epstein and signed off "Love, Melania." She called it a reply. Twice. Except the subject line was "HI!" and there's no prior email from Maxwell in the files. It wasn't a reply. She reached out. Maxwell wrote back and called her "sweet pea."
And then Melania pivoted to calling on Congress to hold public hearings for Epstein's victims - under oath. Her husband's administration has been doing everything possible to make this go away. Pam Bondi just refused a subpoena the day before to testify. The whole White House message has been "time to move on." And the First Lady is out here asking for sworn testimony. most of the reporting says that everyone in the White House was "stunned."
None of this makes sense - until you know who Amanda Ungaro is.
Ungaro is a Brazilian former model. She came to the US in 2002 at 17, on Jeffrey Epstein's Lolita Express. She's on the flight logs. Her agent was Jean-Luc Brunel, one of Epstein's procurers, who was found hanged in a Paris prison cell in 2022 while awaiting trial for raping minors and trafficking girls.
Ungaro told a Brazilian newspaper she saw about 30 girls on that flight, most of them between 14 and 16. She watched some of them disappear to the back of the plane with Epstein and Maxwell and never saw them again. Brunel tried to get her to carry a suspicious package. She refused.
After she landed in New York, she ended up at Paolo Zampolli's modeling agency. And this is where it all connects.
Zampolli is the guy who brought Melania to America from Slovenia in 1996. Got her the visa. Introduced her to Trump at a party in 1998. Trump has confirmed this himself. Zampolli is in the Epstein files dozens of times. He and Epstein tried to buy Elite Model Management together in 2004. Epstein visited his agency.
In one email from the files, Epstein warned a businessman that "Zampoli is trouble." Zampolli currently works in the Trump administration as special envoy for global partnerships and sits on the Kennedy Center board.
Ungaro and Zampolli were together for almost 20 years. They have a teenage son. They sat at Melania's table at the first inauguration dinner. Ungaro even held a UN ambassadorship to Grenada through Zampolli's connections. They split around 2018 and Zampolli later claimed they were never actually married, which was news to basically everyone.
Then last June, Ungaro got arrested in Miami on fraud charges at a medical spa. Her new husband made bail. She didn't. 'Cause according to the New York Times, Zampolli called a senior ICE official named David Venturella, told him Ungaro was on an expired visa, and asked about getting her transferred to federal custody. Venturella called the Miami field office. He mentioned the case was important to someone close to the White House.
Zampolli says he just asked what was going on. DHS says it wasn't political. But Ungaro got picked up by ICE before she could post bail and was deported to Brazil. She eventually agreed to leave because she thought staying in detention would cost her custody of her kid. Her son went to Brazil with her, then went back to Zampolli.
The man who introduced the President to the First Lady got the mother of his child deported. And this woman knew the Trumps for 20 years. She was at their events. She was close to Melania's parents. She rode on Epstein's plane as a teenager.
Now she's in Brazil posting on X, tagging Melania directly. Saying she'll expose everything she knows. Threatening legal action. Saying she has nothing left to lose.
But wait! There's more!
The Epstein files from January include a redacted FBI proffer from 2019, three days after Epstein's arrest. An immunity witness told federal agents that Epstein introduced Melania to Donald Trump. Not Zampolli. Epstein. Lying under a proffer agreement is a federal crime. The White House says the files may contain unverified claims. Melania has been threatening to sue anyone who repeats it. Wolff. Hunter Biden. The Daily Beast already caved and retracted. Hunter's response was "F**k that. That's not gonna happen." He refused to retract and basically dared them to depose both Trumps. Wolff sued her back.
And then Zampolli popped up after Melania's speech to tell the Daily Mail he's ready to testify under oath that he made the introduction. Melania just asked Congress to set up hearings.
So - to sum up - a woman who was on Epstein's plane, who spent 20 years in the Trump inner circle, gets deported by the man who introduced Donald and Melania. She starts threatening to talk. The Epstein files contain sworn testimony that contradicts the official story of how the Trumps met. And then Melania holds a surprise press conference to deny everything, while her key witness volunteers to back her up and her husband pretends he didn't know it was happening.
Melania doesn't do press conferences. She doesn't blindside the West Wing. She doesn't voluntarily bring up the one scandal her husband's team has been trying to bury. Whatever Amanda Ungaro knows, it was enough to make all of that happen on a Thursday afternoon. And good lawd - now everyone is talking about the Epstein Files again.
Ungaro was 17 on that plane. Her lawyers say Zampolli started pursuing her at 15, though some accounts say 17. Either way, he was 32. She spent two decades inside Trump world. And when she became a problem, they shipped her out of the country.
So - now we wait, I guess. To see if she follows through on her threats - or if this is all just another nothingburger.
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