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Subject: The Daily Beast falls flat on its face...again
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2025 13:58:48 -0400
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Thursday, The Daily Beast removed an article from its website that
highlighted claims that President Donald Trump met first lady Melania
Trump through Jeffrey Epstein. These claims came from Trump biographer
Michael Wolff.
This editors note was posted on The Daily Beasts site: Editors
Note. After this story was published, The Beast received a letter from
First Lady Melania Trumps attorney challenging the headline and
framing of the article. After reviewing the matter, the Beast has
taken down the article and apologizes for any confusion or
misunderstanding.
Wolffs original claims were made during an episode of The Daily
Beast Podcast, which aired six days ago.
TheWraps Benjamin Lindsay wrote, In the podcast interview with
Joanna Coles, published Saturday, Wolff alleges that Donald and
Melania met in 1998 through ID Models founder Paolo Zampolli, who
himself had ties to Epstein and his partner Ghislaine Maxwell. He said
that Melania was very involved in Epsteins social circle.
A spokesperson for The Daily Beast told media journalist Oliver Darcy,
The story was deleted because it did not reflect the comments made by
Michael Wolff and Joanna Coles on the Daily Beast podcast.
https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2025/the-daily-beast-retracts-melania-epstein-story/
Translation: They got caught flat out lying.