The Daily Beast
Photo Illustration by Victoria Sunday/The Daily Beast/Getty Images First Lady Melania Trump’s sudden on-camera statement denying any relationship with Jeffrey Epstein was about controlling the image of her personal life, says the author Michael Wolff. Melania shocked many when she took the extraordinary step of summoning reporters to hear her read a prepared statement in which she declared she was never a friend of Epstein or his top associate, Ghislaine Maxwell. “I was never involved in any capacity—I was not a participant, was never on Epstein’s plane, and never visited his private island," she said from the White House on Thursday. Read more at The Daily Beast.
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