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Melania Trump, the wife of the Republican presidential nominee, has placed The Daily Mail and other news organizations on notice for making false and defamatory statements about her supposedly having been an escort in the 1990s Charles Harder, a lawyer for Trump has announced.

 Politico confirmed that its reporters had been sent notices. The notices come just three days after The Daily Mail, a UK publication, published a report citing a story in a Slovenian magazine that claimed a New York modeling agency that once represented Trump also operated as an escort agency for wealthy clients. That report was then picked up or referenced by other news outlets.

The outlets that have been put on notice by Melania Trump include The Daily Mail, The Week, Politico, Inquisitr, Tarpley, Before It's News, Liberal America, LawNewz, Winning Democrats and Bipartisan Report,

Until lawsuits are filed, however, the notices function as warnings to the accused parties to issue a correction or retraction.

On Monday, both Inquisitr and Bipartisan Report published retractions and apologies for citing the Daily Mail report. Donald Trump tweeted links to both retractions.

The Daily Mail, The Week and Politico have not yet commented on the notices.

 

The Daily Mail is more to defamation charges because it is based in the United Kingdom, where libel laws tend to favor another person who brings the case against. In the U.S. the burden is on Trump to prove the statement false, while in the UK the burden would be on the Daily Mail to prove it was true