What's Melania up to?

[Westfacing]

I'm wonder why she felt the need to make this announcement, standing at a lectern no less, like it's an important State occasion!

Seems a bit over the top - maybe something is about to break? She's known to have him an Maxwell a few times over the years

Melania Trump denies ties to Jeffrey Epstein and urges hearing for survivors - BBC News

Yes same. It’s a very tame interview, something has changed

I assume Ungaro got some of what she wanted from the threat.

Meanwhile Melania's crisis-management statement is out there and she can't undo it. By the way she responded to the "Flee! All is discovered!" message, Melania has dramatically told us that there is, indeed, something to hide.

Melania's statement was distancing herself from her husband. That crisis-manager Molly McPherson (linked upthread) pointed out an interesting parallel with Ivanka having recently done a piece beginning to distance herself from Trump.

Watched the MMcP blog. Agree theyre all starting to put a bit of distance between djt and themselves ...now that they've grifted as much money as possible and know that they'll have to survive in this world after he is gone politically and when he snuffs it.

Stephen Bartletts Diary of a CEO interview is about as soft an interview as you can get...no hard questions ...like why did the saudis give your husband billions of dollars ?

Ivanka closely aligned herself to her fascist father , it grinds my gears that her simpering soft talk act is trying to cover up who she is in reality, a manipulative money grabbing witch. Now its all 'im just little ole me' 🤮 Stephen Bartlett should be ashamed ...its like giving a platform to Eva Braun. The bit I saw she was crying about her mother...who she allowed to be buried in a grave on the edge of trumps golf course...so trump could get a tax break ffs. Saw a picture of it online recently unkempt and barely recognisable as a place of rest.

Agreed, treating them as if they are just any old politician or politician's daughter is in complete denial of what they really are and what they have really done.

Yes it is all about money. I don't see any distance from daddy in reality. Ivanka's husband is the de facto Vice President. Vance was excluded from talks with Netanyahu but Kushner was there. He was also in Hungary and Pakistan. Oh, and making money:

Jared Kushner is seeking peace deals in the Middle East. He’s also raising money for his own firm | Mohamad Bazzi | The Guardian

There is always a personal financial benefit to everything they do, wars, collapsing the economy, death.

There's another interesting Reddit thread about Zampoli and editing his Wikipedia entry.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/s/ZXgwwHJ3Ht

Thanks for this 🙌

CNN interviewing Amanda Umgaro tomorrow apparently. Hopefully its more 'enlightening' than her El Pais interview.

My first question to her would be if you cared about the children you referenced why did you not report it earlier? I suspect she was also trafficked but didn’t have the insight, vocabulary or agency to understand what was happening to her in that world back then like Me Too and casting couches - fear, shame, trauma kept young girls silenced by this ogre powerful men.