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price Lloyd in Florida, Melania Trump's dark past continues to surface. The individual who introduced Melania to Donald Trump back in 1998 who's now been made an ambassador in The Trump regime has been posting enough with the vicious lies, conspiracies, and disparaging attacks. Amanda Ngaro. Against our marvelous first lady. The truth is in the records. Melania Trump is the most elegant, graceful, intelligent, and perfect first lady America has ever had. Now, Amanda Ungaro is Paolo Zampoli's former girlfriend. She's the mother of their child, and she's been deported to Brazil. And she says that her being deported was expedited by Paolo Zampoli working with ICE to do that to try to silence her. Zampoli denies that he was working with ICE to expedite her deportation. And he just said that just happened. Now, Amanda Ungaro talked about how Zompoli kept a black box of blackmail material on highly influential people. And I believe, in my opinion, she was implying that he also had the goods on Donald Trump in this black box. She just gave an interview with Zev Shalev on Substack. Here's what she had to say about this black box. Play this clip.
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We know as well that Paulo had a. Had a black box of. Of secrets, that he would record videos of some of these models with other famous people or diplomats.
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That found out was me, actually, by the way, I think Victoria told that.
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But who found about this black box was me.
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And this black box was blackmail material. Really? Is what you're saying that there is a. They're recording things in his house, in the residence?
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I cannot tell much about then Amanda Ungaro. She's known a lot about Melania. They knew each other for a very long period of time. Obviously. Ungaro being Paolo Zompoli's former girlfriend, she was always at the White House. She was around Melania. She considered herself good friends with Melania, and she views Melania as utterly betraying her. And Ungaro has said that the truth will come out about Melania's background. Amanda Ngaro also says that her phone was taken under very suspicious circumstances by Zompoli, implying that Zombie and the Trump regime worked together to snatch her phone. She said yesterday, how did Zompoli obtain my phone while it was in the custody of the Aventura Police Department, My phone was seized by law enforcement and should have remained secure as evidence. However, according to the location data from my find my phone iPhone account, the device later appeared at Paolo Zompoli's residence in New York. I want an explanation. And she calls out the Department of Homeland Security as well. And she's been saying that again, she knows all about Melania's dark past, and she's going to spill the beans about that. That's one of the main reasons why Melania held that press conference a few months back and saying that there are all these people out there who want to tarnish my name and my reputation. And I just want to let you all know that if you see messages between me and Epstein and Ghislaine and photographs, none of it's real. It's all fake news. None of it's real. And then Melania recently, have you this, she's been posting more and more photos of her and little children. I just think she's just trying to do reputation damage control. But she also does it in the weirdest way imaginable. She's posting, you know, these videos about her AI challenge for kids and an era where we're all very skeptical of the use of AI and how it's being used as a substitute for kind of other critical learning methodologies. She keeps just forcing this AI on kids. The Melania Trump AI Leadership initiative after the Presidential AI Challenge Awards at the Rose Garden just keeps on feeding all of these children. She's like, all the children need to use AI, Melania, just because you write, it seems, in my opinion, all of your speeches with AI when you're not plagiarizing Michelle Obama like kid used to do. Oh, and by the way, that surfacing as well as part of your dark past, Melania, I'll get that into a moment. You're telling kids to use AI and you seem to be using AI on your speeches now this week, Melania's dark past also surfacing as we finally saw Michelle Obama. It just reminded us in the presidential library one of the first times we've seen Michelle Obama give a speech in a long time. I missed Michelle Obama's speech. She gave such a powerful, incredible speech. That's what a former first lady was like to see Michelle Obama. But it reminded me of the time that Melania just plagiarized word for word, Michelle Obama's convention speech. Because these are who the Trumps are. They're liars, they're grifters, they're plagiarizers. You remember what I'm saying here? Let's play this clip.
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So many of the same values.
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You work hard, like for what you want.
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set out to build lives guided values and pass them on to the next generation because we want our children and all children in this nation to know that only limit to the height of your achievements, the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work hard for
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you and your willingness to work for them.
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Just a quick reminder for you here was Michelle Obama Just a short portion of Michelle Obama's speech opening the Obama Presidential Library. Let's play that you were doing the
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people's work, rescuing our economy, expanding health care, ending a war, ordering the Bin Laden raid, saving an auto industry, winning a peace prize, Keeping us safe from Ebola, regulating the banks, standing up for marriage equality, listening to science and comforting an entire nation in the face of uncertainty, unspeakable tragedies. And you did it all with such grace and class and cool that you made the hardest job in the world look like a walk in this beautiful park. Your mother
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You know, as Donald Trump keeps on saying two weeks this two weeks that I'm gonna do it in two weeks, two weeks this plan, two weeks, that plan, but he always lies about it. Also, Melania's surfacing in the sense that one of Donald Trump's original. I'm going to tell you in two weeks, we'll do a press conference about it in two weeks related to Melania's immigration status. Remember when Donald Trump was originally running for office in 2015 and lots of people were raising questions about how the hell did Melania really get here? The Palo Zon poly story raises so many red flags. She got an Einstein visa. For what? Why would she get the Einstein visa? She was no Einstein. She was no 1 in that category of talent, in my opinion. She was never close to being like a serious supermodel. And there were so many red flags about what she was actually doing here. I think you know what she was and just how she got here in the first place. And so remember, Donald Trump said, in two weeks, I'll hold the Melania press conference. Of course, we're now how many years later over that, Right? Over a decade later, 12 years later, and there hasn't been a press conference. And to me, this is not just a red flag in Melania's background. It just goes to tell you. And Donald Trump says we're two weeks away from the Strait of Hormuz open. We're two weeks away. Just remember, Donald Trump hasn't held the immigration press conference on Melania in 12 years. This is what he does. He griffs, he lies.
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I'll show you this presser. This when he made this comment. Let's play this clip right here.
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Maybe she came in illegally. Maybe. Let me tell you one thing. She has got it so documented. So she's going to have a little news conference over the next couple of weeks. That's good. That's good. I love it. I love it. They said Melania Trump may have come into our country illegally. And how would that be for Donald Trump to be talked? Here's the only problem. She came in totally legally. I mean, you know, so that's what they'll say. All right, but you'll see it in a little while. I said to her, no, no, let it simmer for a little while. Let them go wild. Let it simmer.
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And then finally, we got some additional data as well about the living arrangements in the White House. Well, we learned that Melania is barely ever in the White House. She hates being there with Donald Trump. But from the book Regime Change, that's written by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, that's about to come out they said that the master bedroom in the White House was claimed by Melania. I mean, look, Melania's dark past. I think we all know what I'm talking about, right? Form your own opinions. But she also knows about Donald Trump's dark past. She knows about Donald Trump's dark past. Dark, dark, dark, dark connection. She knows about it.
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And so she wields that. In my opinion, it's not my opinion that she has the master bedroom. And so Donald Trump is forced to now live in the White House in the second floor living room, not the master bedroom. And so Donald Trump lives in the second floor living room. Melania does not let him in the master bedroom. We know they were in separate rooms, but we have more details about how. Then Donald Trump just, like, brings all of this food and candy and throws the wrappers all over the place. And in the second floor living room, Donald Trump insists on having carpet in the bathroom there. So it has all of this mold and it gets all wet and it has all these, like, random stains on it. And Trump throws the silverware in the garbage in the bathroom. And it's like a gig. It's like a. It's like a version of the reflecting pool, but basically in the bedroom. How grotesque it is. And we've learned also that Donald Trump, in order to get back at Melania, he takes the furnishings that she puts in the White House and he hoards them in the bedroom when Melania's gone, so that it's stolen when she arrives. And that there are staff that feel like they're getting in between them. It's so utterly bizarre. But you think also about other things that are happening when they're there together. Donald Trump continues to. Like when Howard Lutnick's in the White House, Trump continues to refer to him as a pussy. But then Lutnick says, call me your $25 billion a month pussy. That's what Lutnick wants to be called. Because Trump said that you're the P word because you think that tariffs are bad. And then Lutnick said, no, I'm your $25 billion pussy, because I believe in tariffs. I mean, there's some weird stuff over there. We know that the White House is now one of the main sites where they constantly talk about covering up the Epstein files, Trump and Vance and the whole kind of Trump cabinet. We know about that. Trump continues to talk about. The only thing he like Ukraine is Ukrainian women. And he keeps on saying how he loves Ukrainian women. Oh, and then Donald Trump and Hegseth love watching the death videos, apparently, of the war crimes that are being committed off the coast of Venezuela when the United States military blows up all of those fishing boats. Apparently Trump and Hegseth like, get off on the death and the charred bodies and the murders that they commit. So that's going on in the White House as well. Again, just I showed you the Michelle Obama speech. Let me just contrast that over here with Melania. Like when Melania just gave a speech this week and she's like, you can applaud now. It's just so utterly horrible. Here, let's play.
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Episode: Black Box Discovery Renews Questions About Melania Trump's Past
Date: June 20, 2026
Hosts: Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas
This episode dives into explosive new revelations related to Melania Trump’s past, prompted by an interview with Amanda Ungaro, a former close friend and confidant of Melania and ex-girlfriend to influential Trump associate Paolo Zampolli. The discussion centers around allegations of a “black box” filled with blackmail material, Melania’s questionable immigration history, her ongoing reputation management, and fresh details about life inside the Trump White House. Through their signature blend of sharp political analysis and irreverent sibling banter, the Meiselas brothers shine a light on patterns of secrecy, grifting, and image control within the Trump orbit.
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The episode blends investigative commentary with the sharp-witted, casual sibling banter that makes the MeidasTouch Podcast accessible and entertaining. The hosts balance serious allegations (potential blackmail, high-level corruption, and mishandling of evidence) with recurring humorous asides, making even the most bizarre recounted stories both engrossing and relatable.
This episode excavates the layers of secrecy and manipulation surrounding Melania Trump, Paolo Zampolli, and Donald Trump, connecting current controversies (alleged blackmail, suspicious policing, government complicity) to longtime Trump patterns: image management, deflection, and the blurring of truth. While the emerging details raise new questions about how much more could surface, the hosts’ tone remains both incredulous and darkly amused, leaving listeners with the feeling that the full truth has yet to be revealed, but the cracks are widening.