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Michael Mocks “MAGA Myrmidons” In Melania Lawsuit
By Michael Cader

The full filing of journalist and author Michael Wolff’s lawsuit again first lady Melania Trump is now available. He seeks declaratory judgement that statements Mrs. Trump threatened to sue him over — seeking $1 billion — “are not actionable libel claims,” and asks for compensatory and punitive damages if she continues to threaten him “for the purpose of harassing, intimidating, punishing, or otherwise maliciously inhibiting Mr. Wolff’s free exercise of speech.” In Wolff’s full complaint, it alleges: “Mrs. Trump and her ‘unitary executive’ husband along with their MAGA myrmidons have made a practice of threatening those who speak against them …

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German novelist Verena Kessler's GYM, pitched as MY SISTER, THE SERIAL KILLER meets EILEEN and the film Love Lies Bleeding, in which a woman begins her job at a gym with a lie that she has a baby, only to grow increasingly obsessed with pushing her body to the limits even as suspicions mount about her mysterious past and her imaginary baby, to Anna deVries at St. Martin's, in a pre-empt (NA). Rights also to Orla King at Picador, in a pre-empt (world English). Rights: Friederike … read more
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