Federal Court Just EXPOSED Melania’s $100 Million Crypto Scheme – Lawsuit Moves Forward 

The Melania Trump grift machine, $175 million and counting. Okay, I need you to stay with me here because what I’m about to walk you through tonight is going to fundamentally change how you understand what’s happening at the highest levels of American government. This isn’t about politics. This isn’t about left versus right.

 This is about something that quite frankly I’ve never seen in my years of covering American political life. The first lady of the United States is currently the subject of a federal fraud lawsuit. She’s been engaged in secret back channel communications with Vladimir Putin. Her cryptocurrency venture has been called one of the most brazen pump and dump schemes in modern financial history.

 And right now, as I’m speaking to you tonight, Amazon is about to lose $75 million promoting a vanity documentary about her life that nobody wants to see. Let me say that again so it lands properly. The sitting first lady is named in court documents alleging a coordinated scheme that extracted $100 million from everyday American investors.

 She’s been communicating directly with a man wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes. And one of the world’s largest corporations just spent $75 million on what industry insiders are calling corporate bribery disguised as entertainment. Think about what that means. If you care about the integrity of the office, if you care about what the White House represents, you need to understand the full scope of what’s happening here.

 Because this isn’t one scandal, this is a machine, a grift machine operating in plain sight. And tonight, I’m going to show you exactly how it works. Subscribe to this channel right now and turn on notifications because we are going to be following every development in this story as it unfolds. Hit that subscribe button. Here’s what you need to understand about Melania Trump.

 In January 2026, on the eve of her husband’s second inauguration last year, January 19th, 2025, Melania Trump launched a cryptocurrency token called Melania. Now, for those unfamiliar with how these things work, a memecoin is essentially a speculative digital asset with no underlying value. Its price is determined entirely by hype and demand.

 Within minutes of that token launching, something extraordinary happened. The Financial Times conducted a blockchain analysis and found that 24 separate digital wallets purchased $2.6 million worth of Melania tokens. Stay with me here because the timing is everything. Those purchases occurred 2 and a half minutes before Melania Trump publicly announced the coin on Truth Social. 2 and a half minutes.

 One wallet alone purchased $681,000 worth of tokens precisely 64 seconds before the announcement. Within 24 hours, that single wallet had sold most of its holdings for $39 million in profit. They made another $4 million over the next three days, liquidating the rest. In total, those 24 wallets that bought before the public announcement walked away with $99.

6 million, nearly $100 million. And the people who bought in after Melania’s announcement, the regular Americans who trusted that this was a legitimate investment opportunity, they watched the value of their holdings collapse by 98% from a peak of nearly $13 per token down to less than 50.

 But that’s not even the most damaging part. In April 2025, blockchain analytics firm Bubble Maps flagged suspicious activity. $30 million worth of Melania tokens had been moved from community funds and sold across multiple wallets without any public explanation. By June, an additional $35 million had been liquidated. Onchain analysis revealed that over 92% of the total token supply was controlled by team wallets. 92%.

 Think about what that means. The people who created this thing held almost all of it. And as everyday investors watched their money evaporate, those insiders continued dumping millions of dollars worth of tokens onto the market. Now, in October 2025, a proposed class action lawsuit was filed in federal court.

 The plaintiffs don’t accuse Melania Trump of direct wrongdoing. She’s not named as a defendant, but here’s what they do allege. They say she was used as, and I’m quoting the court documents here, window dressing for a crime engineered by the actual defendants. The lawsuit names Benjamin Chow, co-founder of cryptocurrency platform Meteora, and Hayden Davis, who co-founded Kelsier Labs.

 According to the amended complaint, these individuals launched at least 15 different cryptocurrencies as part of what the plaintiffs describe as a pre-engineered pumpand dump operation designed to extract money from investors. The Millennia Coin reached a market cap of over$ 1.6 billion on January 20th, 2025. Today, it sits around 86 million.

 That’s a 95% collapse in value. And Melania Trump, she’s still promoting it. In October 2025, she posted an AI generated video on social media describing the Melania token as, and I quote, a path into the future. Letthat sink in. If you’re finding this valuable, hit that like button right now because this story is about to get significantly more complicated.

 Now, let me connect some dots here because the cryptocurrency scandal doesn’t exist in isolation. In January 2025, Amazon announced it would pay $40 million to license a documentary about Melania Trump’s life. $40 million. For context, that’s the largest known licensing deal for a documentary in history. The film is directed by Brett Ratner, who you might know from the Rush Hour franchise.

What you might not know is that Ratner hasn’t made a major Hollywood production since 2017 when multiple women accused him of sexual assault and harassment. He denied all allegations, but his career in Hollywood was essentially over until now. Amazon didn’t just pay 40 million for the license.

 According to Puck News, they’ve spent an additional $35 million on marketing and promotion. That’s $75 million total for a documentary that industry tracking suggests might open below $1 million at the box office. One source told Hollywood insider Rob Shooter, and I quote, “In New York, only a handful of seats have been booked. Palm Beach is no better.

 Even in Trump country, theaters are practically empty. Box Office Pro is forecasting a domestic opening weekend between one and two million dollars. To break even, the film would need to earn at least 80 million. It’s projected to make a fraction of that. So, why would Amazon do this? Here’s where it gets genuinely troubling.

 This deal was announced weeks after Amazon founder Jeff Bezos dined with Donald Trump at Mara Lago. It came after Bezos pulled the Washington Post’s endorsement of Camela Harris before the 2024 election. It followed Amazon’s $1 million donation to Trump’s inaugural fund. Writer Heidi Moore put it this way.

 Imagine how much financial benefit Amazon hopes to get from the Trump administration if they think $40 million is an easy investment in Melania’s documentary. Public Citizen called it what it is, corporate pandering to Trump. Matt Staler, research director at the American Economic Liberties Project, was more direct. I see we’re back to openly bribing the Trump family, he said, and the documentary itself.

According to multiple reports, Melania Trump personally removed all references to Ivanka Trump from the final cut. Her stepdaughter wasn’t even invited to the Kennedy Center premiere. The premiere, by the way, is happening at what’s now called the Trump Kennedy Center. House Republicans voted to rename the opera house there after the first lady.

 The same first lady named in a federal fraud lawsuit. The same first lady whose cryptocurrency wiped out the savings of Americans who trusted her endorsement. Now, stay with me here because this distinction matters enormously. In October 2025, Melania Trump stepped to a podium in the Grand Foyer of the White House and made an announcement that stunned foreign policy observers around the world.

 She revealed that for the previous three months, she had been engaged in direct back channel communications with Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, the man the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for on charges of war crimes related to the systematic abduction of Ukrainian children. Let me read you exactly what she said.

President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication regarding the welfare of these children. For the past three months, both sides have participated in several back channel meetings and calls, all in good faith. She announced that eight Ukrainian children had been reunited with their families as a result of these negotiations.

 Now, on its face, reuniting children with their families is a good thing. But experts immediately raised concerns about the framing. Ukraine estimates that more than 200,000 children have been forcibly deported to Russia since the war began. The Ukrainian government’s bringing kids back program puts the number of confirmed abductions at over 19,500.

Eight children is not nothing, but it represents a fraction of a fraction of those taken. More importantly, advocates noted that Melania Trump’s language was careful, almost deliberately so. She did not describe the children as abducted. She referred to them as separated from their families as a result of the conflict.

 She expressed appreciation for Russia’s willingness to participate in good faith. She made no mention of the ICC arrest warrant, no mention that what Russia has done meets the legal definition of a war crime. Instead, she stood in the White House and praised Vladimir Putin’s cooperation. Stay with me here. The day after the announcement, Donald Trump was asked about the number of children abducted.

His response was revealing. Some people say it’s 20,000 and some people say it’s 300, he said. So, nobody really knows. That’s not true. We do know Ukraine has documented the abductions extensively. Yale’s humanitarian research lab trackedover 30,000 children to more than 200 facilities across Russia where they were subjected to re-education programs focused on Russian patriotism.

 But the president of the United States standing next to the president of Ukraine in the White House cabinet room suggested the numbers might be inflated by a factor of 60. and his wife, the first lady, is communicating directly with the man responsible for taking them. Drop a comment right now.

 Tell me where you’re watching from. I want to know how far this is reaching because this story needs to be heard. Here’s where I want to connect all of this back to something I’ve been thinking about for months. I’m a fan of The Sopranos. And there’s an arc in that show where Carmela, the wife of Tony Soprano, finally reaches a breaking point.

 She has to look in the mirror and acknowledge that everything she has, her house, her jewelry, her country club membership, all of it comes from blood money. It comes from organized crime and she has to make peace with that recognition. Where is Melania Trump’s come to Jesus moment? Where is her recognition that the wealth she enjoys is built on a financial house of cards? That her cryptocurrency venture extracted $100 million from ordinary Americans while insiders cashed out? that a $75 million vanity project exists only because corporations want

favors from her husband, that she’s providing diplomatic cover to a man wanted for war crimes. The Trump family is not doing well financially. I’ve talked about this before. Ever since Judge Arthur Angaron placed a financial monitor on Trump’s business operations, they haven’t closed a single new major deal in the United States.

 They’re living on old money, and the old money is running out. That’s why Donald Trump sells trading cards and NFTTS and sneakers and Bibles. That’s why he sold pieces of the suit he wore when he was arraigned. That’s why Melania has to do a $40 million documentary deal and launch a cryptocurrency that most people recognize as a scam.

 They have to grift because it’s the only business model they know. And right now, the grift is operating at scale. The cryptocurrency scandal involves at least $100 million in documented insider profits. The documentary represents 75 million in corporate tribute. The total monetary value of favors and deals flowing to the first lady alone in the past year exceeds $175 million.

175 million. For a woman who during her first tenure as first lady was largely invisible, who abdicated virtually every traditional responsibility of the office, who wore a jacket that said, “I really don’t care, do you?” on her way to visit migrant children in detention. That woman is now operating as a profit center for the Trump Organization while simultaneously conducting shadow diplomacy with America’s primary geopolitical adversary.

 And nobody in power seems willing to say it out loud. Let me leave you with three things tonight. First, the Melania cryptocurrency lawsuit is proceeding through federal court. As more information emerges about the coordination between insiders and the first lady’s announcement, the pressure on this story will only intensify.

 Watch for depositions and discovery in the coming months. Second, the documentary releases January 30th. When the box office numbers come in, and they will be catastrophic, the question of why Amazon paid $75 million for this project will become unavoidable. Congressional Democrats have already raised corruption concerns about the Trump family’s cryptocurrency ventures.

 The documentary deal may attract similar scrutiny. Third, Melania Trump’s back channel communications with Putin are ongoing. She announced that additional reunification efforts are planned. That means the first lady of the United States will continue conducting diplomacy with a wanted war criminal outside normal channels with minimal oversight.

 Think about what that means for the office she holds. Think about what it means for the country. We’re in one of those moments where history pivots. When the rules that are supposed to apply to everyone get tested by people who believe they’re above them. What happens next depends on whether enough people decide those rules still matter.

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