An update on the piece I wrote last week on Amanda Ungaro, the former Brazilian model who caused quite a stir in the White House with a number of X posts directed toward the First Lady.
Ungaro told me she has a lot of compromising material, but she isn’t ready to tell, at least not yet, and maybe not ever.
But we thought it was worth looking at how she got to where she is — which is banished from her adopted country, and a long way from her teenage son, whom she has been trying to keep custody of.
This is another story about how Trump administration officials wield the power of their office to punish their enemies. There is a pattern of this behavior that has been documented by the media for months: how Trump continues to use the DOJ, the FBI and every government agency at his disposal, to go after people he doesn’t agree with, or whom he believes did him wrong.
There’s no evidence Trump was personally involved in Ungaro’s case, but there is reporting showing that Ungaro’s partner, Paolo Zampolli, was. Zampolli and Ungaro were a couple for 20 years, and they were friends with the President and Melania for just as long.
Zampolli and Ungaro were engaged in a bitter custody dispute over their son — and Ungaro claims — and the New Times found evidence — that he directed that Ungaro be deported so that he could get custody of their son.