Overview
- Michael Wolff said on his podcast that Melania Trump’s lawyers have filed a motion seeking sanctions against the attorneys who represented him.
- A federal judge dismissed Wolff’s anti‑SLAPP suit against Melania Trump in May, a case he brought after she threatened a $1 billion defamation suit over his claims about the Trump family’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
- Wolff said he learned about the sanctions motion from Boris Epshteyn and described that contact as evidence the legal strategy was being coordinated by people close to the Trumps.
- Anti‑SLAPP filings are meant to protect speech by stopping lawsuits seen as intended to silence critics, while sanctions motions ask a court to punish lawyers for allegedly frivolous or bad‑faith filings.
- The sanctions claim is reported by Wolff and has not been independently confirmed in the available coverage, and the motion’s outcome could affect whether critics face greater legal risk for reporting on public figures.