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The Daily Beast Podcast

My Melania Legal Battle Has Only Just Begun: Wolff

The Daily Beast Podcast

The Daily Beast

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4.6 • 8.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Michael Wolff and Joanna Coles unpack a week of chaos inside Trumpworld, beginning with Wolff’s explosive courtroom setback in his legal fight with Melania Trump and delving into what they describe as a justice system warped by Trump’s influence. From a mysterious $1.8 billion “slush fund” settlement and the ongoing culture of intimidation around the media, to Don Jr.’s lavish Bahamas wedding conspicuously missing one major guest—his own father—the episode peels back the dysfunction, rivalries, and raw narcissism driving the Trump family. Wolff and Coles also dissect Tulsi Gabbard’s abrupt exit, Pete Hegseth’s latest foreign policy blunder, Jeff Bezos publicly praising Trump while cashing in on the new political order, and the surreal possibility that former Brexit architect Steve Hilton could become governor of California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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There are two main points of the decision.

0:46.3

So the judge, Mary Kay Viscosal, accepted the contention of Melania's lawyers that she is a citizen of Florida.

0:58.5

She basically had two choices, to remand the case to state court or rule on the case.

1:05.7

Functionally, she did neither.

1:08.0

She may have actually effectively ruled against the Trumps without saying so.

1:15.6

Because effectively kicking the case out of federal court by default puts it back into state court,

1:22.6

which is what we wanted in the first place. Make no mistake, we are going forward with this.

1:29.7

We will get in front of a non-Trump judge

1:33.3

and then get a much different kind of ruling.

1:40.4

Michael.

1:42.4

Joanna.

1:43.7

We have a result in your legal case.

1:49.7

We have what we call, or what lawyers call an adverse result.

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