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To think lots more people now wonder about Melania's relationship with Epstein?

75 replies

ListenToAlfDubs · 09/04/2026 21:43

I'd never heard the rumours until she denied them today. Was it very widely commented on? Or has she drawn attention to the possible friendship?

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remodelornot · 09/04/2026 22:39

The white house press center today: what can we do to distract from Iran?

SwatTheTwit · 09/04/2026 22:41

There’s probably more to it, as usual. Modelling is a vile industry.

NotDarkGothicMama · 09/04/2026 22:46

I was wondering whether I'd completely missed stories about the Melania-Epstein connection. Apparently not.

MoFadaCromulent · 09/04/2026 22:49

remodelornot · 09/04/2026 22:39

The white house press center today: what can we do to distract from Iran?

The white house press centre the day before starting a way with Iran: what can we do to distract from Trump's Epstein connections?

remodelornot · 09/04/2026 22:50

MoFadaCromulent · 09/04/2026 22:49

The white house press centre the day before starting a way with Iran: what can we do to distract from Trump's Epstein connections?

yep. twisted

853ax · 09/04/2026 22:51

It's all so bizarre
Anyhow I don't have X anymore so I'll just have to wait few days for news to catch up what going on

TooBigForMyBoots · 09/04/2026 22:52

I think some photos may come out. She spoke of people being able to manipulate images.

Wreckinball · 09/04/2026 23:00

the war didn’t take Trump down, so she’s throwing him under the bus when the survivors she’s asked to speak out- do?

Lemonfrost · 09/04/2026 23:10

Something highly unpleasant must be about to surface. I also don't believe for one second that Donald Trump 'didn't know' that she was about to make that statement. Absolute BS.

LydiaFunnyGums · 09/04/2026 23:11

corlan · 09/04/2026 21:49

It's also a nice distraction from Trump's fuck up in Iran.

Spot on. This is exactly what I thought. They think people are stupid and can’t see through the smokescreen.

BurntBroccoli · 09/04/2026 23:24

Classic dead cat. Trump should have done this instead of bombing Iran.

Ohhhwell · 09/04/2026 23:41

Maybe trump will use it to kick off something else, but says hes defending his wife.

Here we go again with trump wars, the man wont stop untill he bombs something else up.

Handeyethingyowl · 09/04/2026 23:46

Agree. I had never wondered about this but now I do.

Dweetfidilove · 09/04/2026 23:46

Lemonfrost · 09/04/2026 23:10

Something highly unpleasant must be about to surface. I also don't believe for one second that Donald Trump 'didn't know' that she was about to make that statement. Absolute BS.

I also highly doubt she's making a speech from that podium without him knowing.
He probably bomb the WH too of anyone tried that.

Every time I think I'm on the season finale of US madness, they extend the show 😳.

LiviaDrusillaAugusta · 09/04/2026 23:47

Well she effectively sold herself to Trump so who knows?

DuckyDolittle · 09/04/2026 23:53

KitchenColourandstyle · 09/04/2026 22:11

When you launch an illegal war to distract from your friendship with a paedo but then have to send your wife out to draw attention to the paedo to distract from your illegal war.

Oh come on, give them a break, we've all been there

Jaipurrrr · 09/04/2026 23:59

TooBigForMyBoots · 09/04/2026 22:52

I think some photos may come out. She spoke of people being able to manipulate images.

That worked well for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

I wonder if the accusation is that she was also a fixer like GM …..?

begonefoulclutter · 10/04/2026 00:05

Can you imagine what it must be like to be married to someone like him? Christ on a bike. She must have had enough of him by now, surely...?

IdentityCris · 10/04/2026 00:08

corlan · 09/04/2026 21:49

It's also a nice distraction from Trump's fuck up in Iran.

Yet there's a school of thought that the whole Iran initiative was intended to distract attention from Epstein.

There's clearly going to be something serious coming out about Melania and Epstein, or about Trump and Epstein - or possibly a worse scandal about Trump that she wants to distance herself from.

RafaistheKingofClay · 10/04/2026 00:10

corlan · 09/04/2026 21:49

It's also a nice distraction from Trump's fuck up in Iran.

We do seem to have reached the point that they are joe talking about the Epstein files to distract from the Iran fuck up they created to distract from the Epstein files.

Tipstery · 10/04/2026 00:24

I had no clue about any connection until she announced there wasn’t one. Weird move.

sleepwouldbenice · 10/04/2026 00:27

I thought it was inappropriate
Her husband has sent the world into turmoil and destroyed so much and she waffles on about her reputation being damaged
You have no reputation of value!!!

canklesmctacotits · 10/04/2026 04:32

Michael Wolff, the biographer who is being counter-sued by Melania for one BILLION 😂 dollars apparently has evidence that Melania was in a relationship with Epstein a year before she got with Trump and that she met Trump through Epstein. I haven’t seen the evidence and have no idea if this is true but I think this is what she was referring to today.

Creamyes · 10/04/2026 05:02

Oh she and epstein are well known to each other.
This is desperate damage limitation because of the book Entitled, or Michael Wolfe's NY court case.

Undoubtedly there is damaging stuff going to emerge and she is thinking she can get ahead of it.
Far too late.
She was with Epstein before Trump🤢🤮

Overtheatlantic · 10/04/2026 05:13

I would imagine she was trafficked just as loads of girls were from that part of the world at that time. She had a pretty face and figure, and that was her ticket out of poverty; Eastern European girls were also particularly vulnerable because they were unlikely to run to the police about what happened to them. Most of all, they were pragmatic to an extent that western girls weren’t. Melania is still pragmatic, weighing her “suffering”
against the untold riches she’s made.