Tough as the competition may be, the Democrats’ most vile smear has got to be the ongoing insinuations that Melania Trump met her future husband thanks to notorious predator-procurer Jeffrey Epstein.
The first lady has been aggressively squashing the crass smear for weeks, ever since chronically wrong scandal-hawker Michael Wolff claimed on a Daily Beast podcast that Donald and Melania met through a modeling agent with ties to Epstein, and suggestively asked: “Where does she fit into the Epstein story? Where does she fit into . . . this whole culture of models of indeterminate age?”
Wolff knows this market for sleaze-mongering: The usual Trump-haters were soon foaming at the mouth over the supposed Epstein match-making.
But truth still matters: The Daily Beast had to retract and apologize for a story reporting on Wolff’s claim.
Next, veteran Clinton councilor James Carville repeated the charge on his “Politics War Room” podcast — but soon had to apologize and take it down.
Then Hunter Biden pushed the lie in a profanity-ridden interview with Channel 5 — and answered demands he retract his remarks with a true-to-character “F—k that.”
Then again, Hunter probably has no assets left to lose in any lawsuit.
It’s sexist filth, and downright creepy.
The obvious suggestion is that Melania couldn’t have succeeded on her own, nor formed a genuine bond with her husband: These men insist on crediting the infamous trafficker instead; dragging a woman’s reputation through the mud is, we guess, just an added benefit.
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It means nothing to them that the first lady is plainly distressed by the smear campaign — as evidenced by her repeatedly sending her lawyers to kibosh these lies.
Lefties shout “Believe women!” until a woman on the wrong side of the aisle tells them she’s not, in fact, a victim of some heinous scheme, a sick fiction these supposedly enlightened Democrats are perpetuating a bit too gleefully.
This doesn’t even come off as just more mud thrown at the president, with his wife as collateral damage: It’s a head-on assault on her integrity, her honor.
Frankly, it’s hard not to conclude that these men are enjoying the pain they’re causing this beautiful woman — which is sick even by the abysmal standards of modern American politics.