First woman Melania Trump held a shock information convention on the White Home on Thursday to lastly deal with the rumor mill about her.
The previous mannequin from Slovenia appears to be making an attempt to get forward of a giant fallout practically a 12 months after the preliminary launch of Division of Justice recordsdata tying her and President Donald Trump to late billionaire Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump has claimed that he has by no means been pleasant with Epstein; nonetheless, dozens of public photos of the 2 collectively inform a a lot completely different story, and Melania is leaping forward.
Trump has additionally publicly acknowledged many occasions that he was as soon as mates with Epstein earlier than that they had a falling-out. Epstein was awaiting trial in New York for federal expenses of intercourse trafficking underage ladies when he was discovered useless in his jail cell again in 2019.
Photos of the chums collectively are publicly obtainable, in addition to documentation of their correspondence with Maxwell referring to Melania as “candy pea.” Nevertheless, Mrs. Trump held a shock information convention within the Cross Corridor of the White Home to assert she had “by no means been mates with Epstein.”
The 55-year-old marched towards the rostrum in a fury earlier than she proceeded to disclaim having a friendship with Epstein or Maxwell. She wasted no time distancing herself from her scandalous mates.
“The lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein want to finish at this time,” Melania mentioned in her signature accent. “The people mendacity about me are devoid of moral requirements, humility, and respect. I don’t object to their ignorance, however somewhat I reject their mean-spirited makes an attempt to defame my fame.”
She then lined up every denial, claiming “I by no means been mates with Epstein,” earlier than noting, “Donald and I had been invited to the identical events as Epstein every now and then since overlapping in social circles is widespread in New York Metropolis and Palm Seaside.”
“I’m not Epstein’s sufferer,” Melania declared. “Epstein didn’t introduce me to Donald Trump. I met my husband by likelihood at a New York Metropolis get together in 1998.”
OMG – #Melania giving an announcement from the White Home on how she does NOT actually know Epstein?? Woman, there are tons of PHOTOS of you and Trump partying with him and hugging him. Nobody believes you. Nobody. Like cease. The actual fact she even feels the necessity to give an announcement… The… pic.twitter.com/kXC5FqflOh
— Moral American (@AmericanEthical) April 9, 2026
Transferring on to Epstein’s confederate, Ghislaine Maxwell, who was sentenced to twenty years in jail, Melania claimed she by no means had a relationship with Maxwell, though she had a pleasant e-mail trade with the felon that she ended by telling her to name her when she bought again to New York.
She ended the e-mail with “Love, Melania.” She additionally famous that Epstein had a pleasant interview in New York Journal and complimented Maxwell’s image within the piece.
“My e-mail reply to Maxwell can’t be categorized as something greater than informal correspondence. My well mannered reply to her e-mail doesn’t quantity to something greater than a tribal notice,” she alleged.
Melania insisted she was not certainly one of Epstein’s victims, however “Hearth and Fury: Contained in the Trump White Home” writer Michael Wolff claims that the billionaire advised him he had been seeing Melania for a 12 months earlier than Trump.
She concluded her assertion demanding that Congress communicate with the Epstein victims in a public listening to, whom the fired Lawyer Common Pam Bondi refused to, earlier than storming off.
“Give these victims their alternative to testify underneath oath in entrance of Congress with the ability of sworn testimony,” Melania declared. “Every lady ought to have her day to inform her story in public if she needs after which her testimony ought to be completely entered into the congressional report.”
Melania Trump: The lies linking me with Jeffrey Epstein want to finish at this time. I’ve by no means been mates with Epstein. I by no means had a relationship with Epstein or his confederate, Maxwell. My e-mail reply to Maxwell can’t be categorized as something greater than informal correspondence. pic.twitter.com/dczhHZUBxm
— Acyn (@Acyn) April 9, 2026
Reactions to the video on social media had a number of customers speculating that her denial out of nowhere was a sign that one thing was about to be revealed, and that Melania was making an attempt to get forward of the scandal.
“One thing is about to drop,” wrote one social media consumer. “That is her getting forward of it.”
“I don’t belief this. She’s bought an angle of some variety,” agreed one other. One consumer replied that she was throwing Donald underneath the bus, stating, “She desires him gone simply as a lot as we do.”
“I don’t imagine her for a mili second. I’ve no pity for her. She knew him. They weren’t lies. She has plenty of nerve,” famous one.
After a video of Wolff was shared on Threads with the declare that Melania slept with Epstein, one other consumer wrote, “That explains the bizarre press convention at this time.”
Why the primary woman determined to have the impromptu press meet is unclear, however she additionally claimed that she had no information, nor did she take part in any of Epstein’s abuse.
