The most plausible explanation for first lady Melania Trump’s out-of-the-blue address on the Jeffrey Epstein drama was that she was trying to make it go away.

But her stunning on-camera statement Thursday from the White House Cross Hall — the spot where her husband last week spoke to the nation about the Iran war — will almost certainly have the opposite effect.

“I am not Epstein’s victim. Epstein did not introduce me to Donald Trump,” she said, in a statement that was all the more remarkable since there had been no widespread public speculation about the matter in recent days.

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    A good way to not be swept up in the Epstein Scandal would have been to NOT participate in the trafficking and sexual assault of dozens and dozens of children.

    As far as I’m concerned, she can hang with the rest of the guilty.

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    “I’m not Epstein’s victim.”

    True, you are not a victim, you are a co-conspirator and deserve the same punishment as the rest of the pedophiles.

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    My headcanon is that she loathes Trump, was hoping he’d be indicted, and this is her attempt at reviving the newscycle now that Iran had had a ceasefire when she made her announcement.

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    When you start a war to distract from the Epstein files but the war goes so bad you go back to the Epstein files to distract from the war

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      Right? Husband doesn’t seem to achieve much but at least he successfully distracted from the files. Then she held a press conference talking about it. Unless she did it on purpose?

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        This part is just wrong. He accomplished a lot. He disabled our systems. He created chaos rather than order and everyone is scrambling to bring order when the money behind the chaos is doing whatever the fuck they want.

        Trump is a symptom of the system. The ruling class has us. They have for awhile. Now they are nickel and diming us until the bubble pops and they have to pay.

        This was orchestrated by his supporters. But he’s a fucking moron that just says shocking things.

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    That’s one thing that’s so frustrating, it’s like they’re mocking us. They make it so obvious and I’m like what is going on is 95% of congress just OK with organized serial rape of children???

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    Why are the words of one prostitute considered reliable and not of others? Is it the clothing?

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      It’s the wealth. In capitalist “democracy” your level of speech and political representation is directly proportional to your wealth.

      If Melania didn’t marry the trust fund pedo, she would just be another faceless victim of the CIA-Mossad pedophile sex trafficking blackmail “intelligence” operation.

      Every time you pledge allegiance, make sure to thank Jesus that your tax dollars are financing psychopathic pedophiles who rape children… because you’re the “goodies” of team christianity… and all those poor uneducated religiously-indoctrinated peasants of team islams are the “baddies”.

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    Yeah, this was very weird. I mean, there’s photographic evidence that she knew both epstein and maxwell. And what reputation does she actually have that she’s so worried about being sullied? Does she know that some hammer is about to come down on dumpfuck and she’s trying to distance herself (and failing)?

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      Knavs was one of Epstein’s pimps bringing girls over from Eastern Europe of promises of ‘modelling’. This was before she married Trump.

      Amanda Ungaro is telling the world, there is a line up of non-US media.

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    I dont understand this at all.

    There was no “speculation” she was involved because there are photos of them partying together.

    Aparently she’s given Hunter biden a cease and desist letter because he commented on it?

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      Melania’s former pimp had ICE deport his ex-wife so he could steal sole custody of their son.

      That woman, now back in Brazil, has been working with journalists to get her story out.

      Melania’s trying to get ahead of those stories being released in the coming weeks.

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    I think this was about reviving it. Trump actions are being punished.

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    I’d like to think this is her getting out ahead of something huge that’s about to drop regarding Epstein/Trump. But these people are also so utterly fucking stupid that I really don’t want to give them the benefit of the doubt that there was any real thought that went into this. I almost think this vapid shitstain stumbled onto a comment made about her on some YouTube video, got flustered about it, and then decided to hold a press conference to say how bothered she is.

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    Melania’s only skill is for services rendered. This is what happens when you expect her to do anything else.