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Melania Trump conscionable gave an seemingly unprompted connection denying immoderate ties to the convicted enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein.
"The lies linking maine with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein request to extremity today," she said successful a telecast, the publication of which was further published connected the White House website. "I person ne'er been friends with Epstein. Donald and I were invited to the aforesaid parties arsenic Epstein from clip to time, since overlapping successful societal circles is communal successful New York City and Palm Beach."
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"To beryllium clear, I ne'er had a narration with Epstein oregon his accomplice, Maxwell. My email reply to Maxwell cannot beryllium categorized arsenic thing much than casual correspondence. My polite reply to her email doesn’t magnitude to thing much than a trivial note," she continued. "I americium not Epstein’s victim. Epstein did not present maine to Donald Trump. I met my husband, by chance, astatine a New York City enactment successful 1998. This archetypal brushwood with my hubby is documented successful item successful my book, MELANIA."
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Calling retired "fake images and statements" that person circulated, she said, "I person ne'er had immoderate cognition of Epstein’s maltreatment of his victims. I was ne'er progressive successful immoderate capacity—I was not a participant, was ne'er connected Epstein’s plane, and ne'er visited his backstage island. I person ne'er been legally accused oregon convicted of a transgression successful transportation with Epstein’s enactment trafficking, maltreatment of minors, and different repulsive behavior."
Rather than calling for the afloat merchandise of the Epstein files oregon for radical to cooperate with the DOJ investigation, she said, "Now is the clip for Congress to act. Epstein was not alone. Several salient antheral executives resigned from their almighty positions aft this substance became wide politicized. Of course, this doesn’t magnitude to guilt, but we inactive indispensable enactment openly and transparently to uncover the truth. I telephone connected Congress to supply the women who person been victimized by Epstein with a nationalist proceeding specifically centered astir the survivors."
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the relationship that used to belong to Kamala Harris' run had immoderate responses:
Some besides questioned *why* Melania had made the connection astatine all:
With immoderate speculating that a communicative could beryllium incoming:
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