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The Don Lemon Show

LEMON DROP | Could Michael Wolff Get the Epstein Files?!

The Don Lemon Show

18Hundred LLC.

News, Society & Culture

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Don sits down with journalist and author Michael Wolff to talk about his lawsuit against Melania Trump and the surprising way he’s funding it. After Melania threatened to sue Wolff over his Epstein-related reporting, the bestselling author is now hitting back, and he’s already raised hundreds of thousands of dollars through crowdfunding to build his legal war chest. In this conversation, Wolff breaks down what’s behind the lawsuit, what’s really at stake, and why he believes freedom of the press is worth fighting for, even when it means taking on a Trump. 🍋 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Michael Wolf is here to talk about Michael.

0:16.0

I saw some interesting news about you.

0:19.0

Melania Trump threatened you, threatened to sue you, you sued her, and now what has happened?

0:26.8

Well, yeah, so we went into court.

0:29.2

They threatened to sue us and we, you know, jiu-jitsued this and, and sued them, sued them in New York.

0:37.2

I mean, she threatened to sue me for defamation over things I had said about her relationship.

0:41.9

I mean, basically all I said was that she knew Jeffrey Epstein, which we have seen in pictures.

0:48.2

And she sued me for that because she and her husband do not, as we know, want this conversation about Jeffrey Epstein to go on.

0:57.5

So what they do is they sue you and everybody, you know, a whole string of people have been intimidated by this and have shut up.

1:07.1

But in New York State, there are what are called anti-SLAPP laws, because that would be a

1:13.7

slap lawsuit. They slap the lawsuit at you. You're forced to shut up. In New York State,

1:20.5

there, that's illegal. And if you use defamation suits, which you know you can't win because there's no basis in

1:29.3

them just to intimidate people, well, you can't do that.

1:34.8

Then you can be sued.

1:36.0

We have sued them on that basis.

1:39.8

And preparing for this what will be an expensive endeavor i was going to say michael lawsuits

1:48.8

are really expensive to litigate yes but and i was been nervous about this and and like three days

1:56.6

ago i got the first legal bill and you know the thing about legal bills is that is that you

2:00.7

expect the worst and it's ten times worse than that

2:04.6

But as of on Tuesday Election Day as that as that good election was unfolding

2:12.6

We started a go fund me page. And in 24 hours, we raised, you know how much?

2:23.3

$500,000 to finance this suit.

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