Melania Trump isn’t playing when it comes to her reputation and has filed a motion for sanctions against a notorious “journalist” who is allegedly out to defame her.
The legal war between the first lady and Michael Wolff started when Michael Wolff tried to sue Melania Trump to keep her from suing him for $1 billion for alleged defamatory statements involving Jeffrey Epstein, Fox News Digital reported.
A federal judge tossed Wolff’s “contorted” legal attempt to stop Melania Trump earlier this year, but her legal team isn’t through and is seeking sanctions against him.
“Plaintiff and his counsel asserted a legally frivolous claim, propped it up with factual contentions that lacked any evidentiary support, and used them to run a political and commercial campaign. They should pay for Mrs. Trump’s fees and expenses incurred for the process they abused,” the first lady’s legal team claims.
Wolff reportedly ignored a pre-action notice from Melania Trump’s legal team accusing him of defamatory statements about ties to Epstein and demanding a retraction and an apology.
Instead, Wolff filed the failed lawsuit against Melania Trump and is now paying the price.
“Plaintiff filed a patently meritless lawsuit and used it to harass Mrs. Trump in public. The requested sanctions do not depend on a ruling that Plaintiff’s statements were defamatory. They rest on the unsupported and mischaracterized federal submissions, the use of those papers for improper purposes, counsel’s multiplication of the federal proceedings, and the Court’s findings that the action itself was abusively presented as textbook bad-faith forum-shopping. Those independent grounds support sanctions against Plaintiff and his counsel,” Melania Trump’s team argued, according to Fox.
The first lady’s X account posted Fox’s report, where she received a lot of support:
I hope you clean him out! Honestly! People don’t take defamation seriously, and it really is a serious issue.
— #Working4aLiving ⭐️⭐️⭐️Trump 2028! (@salis333) July 22, 2026
Good for you !
I find it both poetic and ironic that this man’s last name is ” Wolff.”
Seems fitting…what a jerk.— Kristy O’Brien (@Kristyinblueash) July 23, 2026
Get em Mrs President !!!
Go full east european on that dork, respectful request Mrs Potus !!— Ian Smith 🚁🛠️🇺🇸 (@Campgrace7) July 22, 2026
And on a lighter note:
Melania is the best and most beautiful First Lady in History. I named my daughter Melania.
— Patricia Jones🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲 (@PatPatriot98) July 22, 2026
Sweet.
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