WASHINGTON—First woman Melania Trump on Thursday condemned “lies” linking her to the disgraced late intercourse offender, Jeffrey Epstein.
The primary woman unexpectedly issued a press release within the afternoon that was not on the official White Home schedule shared with reporters.
‘The lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein want to finish at the moment. The people mendacity about me are devoid of moral requirements, humility, and respect,” she started.
“I don’t object to their ignorance, however quite, I reject their mean-spirited makes an attempt to defame my status. I’ve by no means been mates with Epstein,” she added.
The primary woman mentioned she and President Donald Trump have been often invited to the identical events that Epstein attended due to widespread “overlapping” in social circles in New York Metropolis and Palm Seashore, Florida.
“To be clear, I by no means had a relationship with Epstein or his confederate, [Ghislaine] Maxwell,” she mentioned. “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 trivial notice.”
The primary woman added that she shouldn’t be a sufferer of Epstein’s and that she met her husband years earlier than she ever crossed paths with Epstein.
“I’m not Epstein’s sufferer. Epstein didn’t introduce me to Donald Trump,” she mentioned. “I met my husband by likelihood at a New York Metropolis Celebration in 1998. This preliminary encounter with my husband is documented intimately in my e book Melania.”
“The primary time I crossed paths with Epstein was within the 12 months 2000 at an occasion Donald and I attended collectively. On the time, I had by no means met Epstein and had no data of his legal undertakings,” she added.
She additionally blasted “pretend photographs and statements” circulating on-line that allege a hyperlink between her and Epstein.
“Be cautious about what you consider. These photographs and tales are fully false,” she mentioned.
She added:
I’m not a witness or a named witness in reference to any of Epstein’s crimes. My title has by no means appeared in court docket paperwork, depositions, sufferer statements or FBI interviews surrounding the Epstein matter. I’ve by no means had any data of Epstein abuse of his victims. I used to be by no means concerned in any capability. I used to be not a participant, was by no means on Epstein’s airplane, and by no means visited his personal island. I’ve by no means been legally accused or convicted of against the law in reference to Epstein, intercourse trafficking, abuse of minors, and different repulsive conduct.
She mentioned these attacking her with “smears” are “politically motivated.” The primary woman famous that, by the authorized system, the likes of the Day by day Beast, James Carville, and HarperCollins UK have been required to publicly apologize to her. She additionally known as on Congress to carry a public listening to for Epstein’s victims.
“I name on Congress to offer the ladies who’ve been victimized by Epstein with a public listening to, particularly centered across the survivors. Give these victims their alternative to testify below oath in entrance of Congress with the ability of sworn testimony,” she mentioned.
“Each girl ought to have her day to inform her story in public, if she needs, after which her testimony must be completely entered into the Congressional Report. Then and solely then, we may have the reality,” the primary woman concluded.
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