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Right, what the heck did Melania Trump just do? This morning, out of the blue, morning at our time, out of the blue, the First Lady called in. Baldwin then held a press conference in which she denied any and all claims put against her related to Jeffrey Epstein. She says she was not a victim of Jeffrey Epstein. She did not have a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell. She was not on Jeffrey Epstein's plane. She was not on Jeffrey Epstein's island. He did not introduce her to Donald Trump. They met at the Kit Kat Club in New York City in 1998. The lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein need to end today, except what lies? Literally no one knows what she's talking about. There has been no development that we can point to. There has been no new rumour that surfaced on social media, no article that's come out, which makes this possibly the most epic case of making a situation worse. Because yesterday, hands up who was thinking about Melania Trump and Jeffrey Epstein? Now, hands up who's all gone and Googled Melania Trump Epstein files. And denying something, by the way, doesn't make any conspiracy theories go away, if that's what she was hoping to do. People are now dropping podcasts already claiming that she confirmed things in that press conference that she never confirmed. And now, of course, the speculation has started. And when I talk about speculation, I mean everything from Reddit to The Guardian in the UK. Everyone is speculating on why she did this. The leading theories so far are. Number one, that she has wanted to get this off her chest for months. Number two, that she's getting ahead of a bad news story that is about to drop. Number three, that she's getting ahead of some revelation in the court case that the author Michael Wolfe is bringing against her for her attempts to stop him writing about herself and Jeffrey Epstein. And finally, four, that she's just messing with her husband because the Epstein files are politically toxic for him. And he had just managed to get them off the news agenda. over the last six weeks because he was doing all the bombing in the Iran war but the minute the war starts winding down what does Melania do she pops up and what she talking about right it's right Epstein files again and what makes it worse is she doesn't tell Donald that she's going to do it before she does it this has got to be one of the strangest press conferences as Donald Trump would say in the history of the world
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