First Lady Melania Trump has denied connections to Jeffrey Epstein, telling reporters at the White House that any claims linking the two "need to end today".

In a surprise announcement on Thursday, the first lady called for congressional hearings for survivors of Epstein's sex trafficking.

She also denied online rumours that Epstein introduced her to Donald Trump, calling them "mean-spirited attempts to defame my reputation".

It is unclear what prompted the announcement.

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[–] 63 points 7 months ago*

Imagine starting a war to distract from your pedophilia, and fucking it up so badly you have to wheel out your bimbo wife to remind everyone about your sex crimes, to distract them from the war.

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  • [–] 40 points 7 months ago

    Deflection and fake sympathy.

    Melania doesn't care about the survivors of her Husband' or his friend Jeffery Epstein's Rapes/Abuse/Murders.

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago*

    I've never met and been pictured a dozen times with someone not knowing them, unless they were my employer

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    theres nothing more supsicious about making a conference diddling kids, then making a CONFERENCE about "not diddling kids".

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    She wants to put a target on the victims and run PR campaigns to show they are all liars and not credible.

    The actual criminals are still hidden and safe.

    I also bet someone recently tried to blackmail her and she's just trying to get in front of it.

    Maybe a fellow victim says she has proof melania helped Epstein.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    none of the above? it's odd that she would randomly come out with this statement. they're trying to get ahead of something here.

    She's not doing anything useful or ethical or taking action. she's trying to protect her own ass for something that has yet to be revealed.

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    [–] 51 points 7 months ago

    More than a dozen Epstein survivors signed onto a joint letter on Thursday responding to First Lady Melania Trump’s remarks calling on Congress to let them testify.

    “Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein have already shown extraordinary courage by coming forward, filing reports, and giving testimony. Asking more of them now is a deflection of responsibility, not justice,” the letter says.

    It continued, accusing the first lady of “shifting the burden onto survivors under politicized conditions that protect those with power: the Department of Justice, law enforcement, prosecutors, and the Trump Administration, which has still not fully complied with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.”

    “It also diverts attention from Pam Bondi, who must answer for withheld files and the exposure of survivors’ identities. Those failures continue to put lives at risk while shielding enablers,” the letter continues. “Survivors have done their part. Now it’s time for those in power to do theirs.”

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  • [–] 34 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    It is unclear what prompted the announcement.

    Maybe something that is just about to be leaked/announced/shared? One can hope.

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    I would be shocked to learn that she was essentially a prostitute trafficked to Trump through Jeffrey Epstein.

    I wouldn't be at all shocked. But it could have been J-L Brunel who trafficked her, and not Epstein.

    My impression of her denial was that it was carefully crafted to be true in some pedantic way, while skirting around the more important points. Like it might come out that, though Epstein was standing right there, it was actually Ghislaine who introduced Melanoma to Trump, even if it was Epstein's idea. The "our eyes locked across a crowded room" is improbable, unless she'd been primed with some speculation about Trump's net worth.

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  • [–] 31 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    She also denied online rumours that Epstein introduced her to Donald Trump, calling them “mean-spirited attempts to defame my reputation”.

    It is unclear what reputation she's talking about.

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  • [–] 28 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    What a fascinatingly strange thing - she's trying to get ahead of something?

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  • [–] 18 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    She dated Epstein before he handed her to Trump. This has been known for many years now. With those idiots it's impossible to know what their game is.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Big if true. Do you have a source for that? Not arguing against it. Genuinely curious.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Micheal Wolff wrote about it and is now suing Trumps over those claims. He claims:

    Among the statements the lawsuit said were true were those saying Melania Trump was “very involved” in Epstein’s social circle, where she met her future husband, and that Donald Trump liked to have sex with his friend’s wives and first slept with Melania Trump on Epstein’s private jet.

    But is it really that big? We know Epstein and Trump traded women (remember the picture with big check saying that Trump bought some woman from Epstein?[1]), that both of them run model agencies working with underage girls [2] and that Trump met Melania while Trump and Epstein were friends[3]. So what's big here? Melania obviously got involved with them through some "modeling" job. She was one of them women either Trump or Epstein groomed and used. Is it really such a big difference which one used her first?

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Trump thought his "little" Iran stunt would burry the epstein business, only to be backstabbed by his own wife. Very nice.

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  • [–] 29 points 7 months ago*

    Nope, no ties whatsoever.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago

    This is called a prebuttal

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    [–] 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I'm guessing that the House Oversight Committee wants her to testify, so she's trying to head it off at the pass before they officially ask.

    Maybe Maxwell's slow trickle of claims in pro se filings had something that Bondi couldn't make go away.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    You might be right on that. I know a lot of people are saying, "Oh something big is about to drop!" I wish, but a more likely scenario is something boring by comparison, like being asked to testify before a committee. I also wonder if she's trying to draw a divide between herself and Trump. If she's going to throw him under the bus, all I can say is, it couldn't happen to a better person.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago

    any claims linking the two "need to end today".

    I agree. Ask your despicable human of a husband to release the remaining files and unredact his name from the rest.

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    She won’t back anything up with action.

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    "Urges public interrogation of victims".

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    Hours febefore a feiend of captured by ice her posted she was going to expose stuff.. the. This anouncement came .. allegedly.

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