C (3:58)
This week has been an utter nightmare for Melania. She wanted it to be the big week of her movie release and she tried to and say, look, it exceeded expectations in terms of the money it's brought in. No it didn't. It was a complete and utter failure. You had a right wing oligarch, Jeff Bezos, fund this thing to the tune of $75 million. You claim it made $7 million. It is a complete farce that you say it's successful, but we've dug deeper Melania and we've learned that it's possible. The United States military has been forcing individuals who are in the military to see this movie as part of mandatory bonding exercises and that it's not just isolated to a few military commanders. We're also learning that faith leaders, MAGA faith leaders have instructed people who support them to buy Melania tickets in bulk. And we've also learned that people who want Donald Trump's endorsement, like candidates for Senate in Kentucky, have been buying bulk. Melania tickets to the movie in order to try to get an endorsement from Donald Trump. How utterly pathetic can you get? And then, of course, there's the fact that Melania's name appears multiple times in the Epstein files, in my view, in quite grotesque ways. And again, I'm going to give you my view, I'm going to give you my opinion, but I'm going to share with you what the emails say. You had Melania had a nickname for Ghislaine and called Ghislaine G. And you had Ghislaine had a nickname for Melania and called her Sweet pea. And in 2002, Melania sent an email to Ghislaine and said, hey, gee, the New York magazine article was great. You look great in the photo. Epstein comes out looking great in the article, and can we meet up soon or let's hang out in Palm Beach? What words to that effect. You can read the exact email for yourself, but that's essentially what the email says. And then Ghislaine Maxwell responds and says, hey, Sweet Pea, I'm actually too busy right now to meet with you, but we should probably meet up soon and thank you and I appreciate it, and calls her Sweet Pea. I mean, the nickname was Sweet Pea. How grotesque can you be? But let's start off, though, by talking about these military leaders, basically forcing people under its command, the soldiers under its command, to see the Melania movie. Our editor in chief, Ron Philip Koski wrote the following. MAGA aligned military commanders are pressuring enlisted service members to go to the Melania movie and to bring their families. Troops at eight different bases have complained. Schooley says, we're war fighters. We're not woke. Now get your asses in those theater seats and learn how to pick dresses for formal balls, okay? And as our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski, so far it has been revealed that the White House Faith Director Advisor is pushing group sales of Melania tickets to her email list. A GOP congressmember seeking Trump's endorsement for the Senate is buying Melania tickets in bulk and giving them to primary voters. And military commanders are pressuring troops to buy tickets. I got to give a hat tip to Jonathan Larson because he's the one who really broke this story right here. And his article is, Military commanders pressured troops to watch Melania Service members at eight U.S. military facilities report being encouraged to attend screening the first lady documentary. Larson's a great reporter. Here's what he writes. Members of the US Military at eight facilities around the world say they were encouraged or pressured to attend a screening of the new movie Melania, according to the Military Religious Freedom foundation mrff. The MRFF typically doesn't identify its clients as it refers to service members who seek MRFF help for fear of reprisals. But in an email shared with me, one MRFF client wrote that their combat unit was advised by the commander to join him and his wife at an off base theater for showing them Melania. Nobody that I know wanted to go except for those that did not want to get jacked up by our unit commander for not attending, the service member wrote to mrff. I am writing on behalf of a dozen of our unit members and families of whom nine are Christians in White MRFF President and founder Mikey Weinstein told me Saturday that he received similar complaints from seven other military facilities around the country regarding commanders pushing Melania viewings. Weinstein said that complaints came from a variety of branches and locations. The Pentagon did not address some specific questions about the movie, such as whether viewings are being encouraged by commanders, but said in a statement there is no Department of War directive requiring service members to see this film. Though the film is fantastic, the MRFF represents thousands of military members force pressure to coerce into unconstitutional religious observances. The combat unit commander in this case holds Bible studies, rewards attendance and according to the MRFF client has even worn MAGA red hats that he owns at many of these unit activity events. And according to the MRFF clients email, the commander requires attendance at three out of four such events to create a bond within our combat unit and its families every month. Such events were said to include softball, flag football and the Melania movie. Failure to attend a minimum of 3 UAE per month will be negatively reflected in our fitness reports. So people felt that they had to see the Melania movie as ordered by their commanders or else you have that data point right there. The White House advisor pushed bulk sales for Melania movie Paula White Kane, who's the senior advisor to the White House Faith Office who is part of the National Faith Advisory Board. She's the president of this Trump backed or Trump supporting faith group of Lots of people says to basically buy these buy group tickets Melania movie in theaters this Friday. Why supporting this film is important? For years our first Lady's story was talked about but never told judge without being understood and reduced when it deserved depth. Supporting this film is about standing up for grace over the noise, dignity over distortion and for the truth. Let's take this film all the way to number one and it says book with your group. So all of the various faith groups they want to book bulk tickets for so that it inflates Melania's numbers.
