James Carville apologizes to Melania Trump, edits Epstein podcast after warning letter from her attorney
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA: Veteran Democratic political consultant James Carville has formally apologized to first lady Melania Trump and removed part of a recent podcast episode after receiving a letter from her legal team.
Carville revealed on Thursday’s episode of his 'Politics War Room' podcast that his team had removed a video linking Jeffrey Epstein to President Donald Trump and Melania following a formal letter from the first lady’s lawyer.
James Carville issues public apology to Melania Trump
The clip, originally part of a July 31 conversation with journalist Judd Legum, included a YouTube video titled “James Carville: The EPSTEIN Connection – TRUMP & MELANIA.” Carville said both the title and his remarks were challenged, prompting his team to delete the YouTube video, edit the podcast episode, and issue a public apology.
“After the episode, we received a letter from Melania Trump’s lawyer. He took issue with our title of one of those YouTube videos from that episode and a couple of comments I made about the first lady,” Carville explained.
He confirmed that the video was taken down and the comments were edited out of the episode. “We took a look at what they complained about, and we took down the video and edited out those comments from the episode. I also take back these statements and apologize,” he said.
It’s unclear what specific claims made by Carville peeved the first lady’s legal team since the offending comments have been scrubbed, previously screen-recorded snippets of it were found on X.
As per them, Carville called Melania a “key figure” in the whole Trump-Epstein backlash. In a bid to dissect why the Trump administration is allegedly covering up the Epstein Files, he says, “I think that is at the bottom of what they don’t want to get out because it was all modelling agencies.”
“Remember, Trump had a modelling agency, then Epstein got into the modelling agency, and then Jean-Luc Brunel, the guy in Paris, had a modelling agency, and he hung himself," Carville says in the video.
Meanwhile, the FBI and Justice Department, under the Trump government, continue to assert that Epstein also killed himself in his prison cell in 2019. Carville concluded, “Two out of the three people ended up hanging themselves. There is really a deep dark secret somewhere underneath all this.”
James Carville: To me, a key figure in this is Melania. I think that is at the bottom of what they don't want to get out cause it was all modeling agencies.
— Unfiltered☢Boss (@Unfilteredboss1) July 30, 2025
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“First Lady Melania Trump’s attorneys are actively ensuring immediate retractions and apologies by those who spread malicious, defamatory falsehoods,” a spokesperson for her office said in a statement to The Hill. “The true account of how the First Lady met President Trump is in her best-selling book, Melania.”
In response to the incident, Melania posted an image on X featuring a transcript of Carville’s apology alongside a screenshot of the original episode crossed out in red.
The controversy didn’t stop with Carville’s podcast.
Melania Trump’s lawyers prompt Daily Beast to withdraw Epstein story and issue apology
The Daily Beast also retracted a July story that claimed the first lady was “very involved” with Epstein.
That piece cited biographer Michael Wolff, who alleged during a July 26 episode of 'The Daily Beast Podcast' that Melania moved in Epstein’s social circle and first met Donald Trump in 1998 through Paolo Zampolli, an ID Models founder connected to Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Following a legal letter from the first lady’s attorney challenging the article’s “headline and framing,” The Daily Beast removed the story and issued an apology for any “confusion or misunderstanding.”
The dispute comes amid broader legal pushback from the Trump family over media coverage related to Epstein. In July, Donald Trump sued The Wall Street Journal, two of its reporters, and Rupert Murdoch over an article claiming he sent Epstein a drawing of a naked woman for his fiftieth birthday in 2003.
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