What I REALLY want to know about the news-behind-the-news is, why is Melania suddenly holding press conferences to say that she didn't know nothin' about Jeffrey Epstein and *especially* wasn't having a relationship with him?
I mean, with the right it's ALWAYS projection, right? So if she runs true to form for a conservative this probably means she had an affair with Ghislaine Maxwell.
I have an alternative hypothesis.
I suspect she wants all of DT's money.
If he dies -- and he will, soon, obviously -- the money gets split up according to his will, which probably doesn't do much for her.
If she divorces him, the prenup controls. Again, not so much.
But if he goes to prison, she can almost certainly have the pre-nup broken, and in New York and Florida, business interests are generally considered part of an equitable settlement.
So it is to her advantage, I think, to get him imprisoned and divorced, in that order, ASAP.
I wonder if she has a clever lawyer who doesn't report to DT?
@dashdsrdash @cstross No chance of getting him imprisoned, sadly. The Supreme Court have pretty much said in so many words that he's above the law.
Maybe the will isn't too mean to her?
@statsguy @dashdsrdash @cstross Or she found a way to get him to rewrite it favorably? He is a couple of bits short of a byte, after all.
Or maybe she's in cahoots with the lawyer that drafted the agreements. Who knows.
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