First Lady Melania Trump sets the record straight on false claims about her and her husband’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. WATCH:
[Transcript Statement] – “Good afternoon.
The lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today.
The individuals lying about me are devoid of ethical standards, humility, and respect. I do not object to their ignorance, but rather, I reject their mean-spirited attempts to defame my reputation.
I have never been friends with Epstein. Donald and I were invited to the same parties as Epstein from time to time, since overlapping in social circles is common in New York City and Palm Beach.
To be clear, I never had a relationship with Epstein or his accomplice, Maxwell. My email reply to Maxwell cannot be categorized as anything more than casual correspondence. My polite reply to her email doesn’t amount to anything more than a trivial note.
I am not Epstein’s victim. Epstein did not introduce me to Donald Trump. I met my husband, by chance, at a New York City party in 1998. This initial encounter with my husband is documented in detail in my book, MELANIA.
The first time I crossed paths with Epstein was in the year 2000, at an event Donald and I attended together. At the time, I had never met Epstein and had no knowledge of his criminal undertakings.
Numerous fake images and statements about Epstein and me have been circulating on social media for years now. Be cautious about what you believe. These images and stories are completely false.
I am not a witness or a named witness in connection with any of Epstein’s crimes. My name has never appeared in court documents, depositions, victim statements, or FBI interviews surrounding the Epstein matter.
I have never had any knowledge of Epstein’s abuse of his victims. I was never involved in any capacity—I was not a participant, was never on Epstein’s plane, and never visited his private island.
I have never been legally accused or convicted of a crime in connection with Epstein’s sex trafficking, abuse of minors, and other repulsive behavior.
The false smears about me from mean-spirited and politically motivated individuals and entities looking to cause damage to my good name to gain financially and climb politically must stop.
My attorneys and I have fought these unfounded and baseless lies with success and will continue to maintain my sound reputation without hesitation. To date, several individuals and companies have been legally obligated to publicly apologize and retract their lies about me, such as The Daily Beast, James Carville, and Harper Collins UK.
Now is the time for Congress to act. Epstein was not alone. Several prominent male executives resigned from their powerful positions after this matter became widely politicized. Of course, this doesn’t amount to guilt, but we still must work openly and transparently to uncover the truth.
I call on Congress to provide the women who have been victimized by Epstein with a public hearing specifically centered around the survivors. Give these victims their opportunity to testify under oath in front of Congress, with the power of sworn testimony. Each and every woman should have her day to tell her story in public, if she wishes, and then her testimony should be permanently entered into the Congressional Record.
Then, and only then, will we have the truth.”
Pure class!
These people are sick in the soul.
Only testimonies naming the criminally liable, sick in the soul perpetrators, absent hearsay, or it will be a waste of time and bandwidth.
This was a shot across the bow. After today, if the media continues to go down this path, a defamation and malice lawsuit will be launched by FLOTUS’s attorneys
I am surprised she hasn’t sued anyone, especially that DEMENTED GUTTER SLIME Carville.
In Texas we call it septic scum. Carville is beyond expiration date. A guy like him will say anything to get attention. We know the type. Think Robert De Niro or Rob Reiner.
Mark Ruffalo
Yep. Looking for one more day of attention before he strokes out on a live stream.
He is starting to look more and more like Gollum. I keep waiting for him to say “my precious” in one of his rants. Seriously, just look at him.
Or a lizard
Our First Lady is a an excellent role model. She can hold her own and fights back with dignity & grace. I admire her very much.
just wait until AI really gets going. No one anywhere will know what’s real and fake. We are almost there now. People that live on social media and the internet will be easily misled by the AI lies and their minds will be twisted like pretzels.
The US media will be very eager to embrace the lies when it suits their leftist goals. I have no idea how these news outlets are even allowed to exist today as news outlets. They are 100% democrat supporting and give the left tens of billions of dollars every election cycle in free campaign support. Lots of talk from the right, but no action (as usual).
AI was not designed for good. Its purpose is 100% for evil and wickedness.
AI was not designed for good. Its purpose is 100% for evil and wickedness.
Would you consider a cure for cancer evil and wicked? AI is best at analyzing data and seeing patterns or things that no human could ever accomplish. Much of progress in medicine is trial and error. Same issue with finding formulas for new plastics, metals, or even new materials we have never thought of. There will be good that comes from AI but like all new and trendy crap, we’ll have to suffer first.
The key to AI is to have laws that require all results, content, words, sounds, etc to have identifiers that tell us where it came from. We also need laws that prevent anyone from using AI in a way that removes the identifiable notice that it comes from AI.
All tools used by humans expand the capacity of people beyond natural limits. Bicycles under human power can easily exceed what humans can do alone. But it wasn’t until the automobile that people stopped using their feet and legs to travel.
We use computers to speed up everything we do in business, in science and in media. But it wasn’t until computers were used for social media that people’s propensity to being stupid expanded to unimaginable scale.
But now we have AI, not to manage operations more efficiently in ways that simple programming or algorithms cannot, but to actually do things most people cannot. This is not a tool.
A tool expands the capacity of humans. Without the human, a tool does nothing.
People used to create things and win congratulations for what they created. But now, with AI, people are asking for things to be created and people who don’t yet understand this think AI users are geniuses.
If I order something not on the menu at a restaurant, a skilled chef or cook can often translate my request into something I will enjoy. The credit goes to the chef.
Using AI as it is today is no different but idiots take the credit for what AI does… and the blame as lawyers and judges continue to get caught using AI responses in their filings age decisions.
People using AI will become just as lost without it as people on the road today when GPS fails.
There will be tremendous casualties due to reliance on AI.
I often ask what is the purpose for AI in our business right now? Why is it being pushed without a clear purpose or objective? The answer I got was “we don’t want to be left behind.” To that I asked “behind who?” AI hasn’t created success yet for anyone but the “AI boom” investors. I got no answer.
Long ago, teachers knew that if students used calculators when learning math, the students wouldn’t learn math.
Why have we forgotten the wisdom of those days?
I’m with you 1000% on that. It’s insane that AI was adopted so quickly by so many.
I have already seen pic of FLOTUS sitting on Epstein lap..him kissing her they are like
look she was involved in Epstien.. As I point out. The version in the pic has Melania 5o years
old face not her 20 or 30 year old face. so unless she has been getting it on with Epstein
in the last couple years the pic is clearly for anyone without TDS to see is a fake.
This was on the internet so it must be true…
Byron The Bimbo Noem has bigger boobs than Bill.
Watching the documentary ‘Melania’ I get the feeling they’re messing with the wrong woman.
I call on Congress to provide the women who have been victimized by Epstein with a public hearing specifically centered around the survivors. Give these victims their opportunity to testify under oath in front of Congress, with the power of sworn testimony. Each and every woman should have her day to tell her story in public, if she wishes, and then her testimony should be permanently entered into the Congressional Record.
Good luck with that. I’m pretty sure that between the palace intrigue, and the fundraisers and grand-standers, we’ll not see a single woman openly testify, let alone all or even a majority of the victims.
NDAs?
Maybe they all don’t have them. That would be the hope those that got squeezed out
Truth is a defense to defamation lawsuits.
Congress, D’s and Rs, voted to keep their list of names/payouts to victims of their sexual proclivities secret.
How many of these amoral, taxpayer paid reps and senators were recipients of Epstein’s”largess”, no matter in what form.
How many women who settled signed NDAs.
The theatre of the hypocritical absurd is what Congressional testimony would be in any case.
Our First Lady is pure grace and steel,. I admire her for the righteous fire she has brought today for those who do not have the bully pulpit which she does.
Testimony in front of and by House/Senate members of low repute? And in camera?
The mockery/ridicule would be epic and damning
It will not happen
Really, as trump said, if they exposed everyone at once he whole world would fall apart. He said hes not in it and doesn’t care, but a lot of people would be hurt by this. As a side bar.. You should see what im reading about Meghan Markle…and Andrew, Harry’s uncle Andrew…very interesting as Wolfgang Busch would say.
Meghan..a rank opportunist and ice cold. No lady she.
Money can buy silence or make you talk…depends on who’s side you’re on.
The victims told their story in the Massue/MTG presser.
They ave their reasons, but some don’t want to testify under oath.
This is the way.
Melania’s love for children always shines through, be it in her anti-bullying initiatives, her hospital visits, her reunification efforts with lost Ukranian and Russian children, and even in the simple acts of handing out Easter baskets or Halloween candy.
This isn’t a mask she slips on when cameras are rolling. This is who she is, a fierce protector of God’s most precious gifts, our children. Leftist smears and attempts to attach her to perv Epstein are pure projection. She rises above it, as always.
This is an excellent statement, exuding strength and justified righteousness.. God bless you, Melania.
I could never imagine the garbage Melania has to endure and I applaud her courage, but I must disagree that her love for children always shines through. She doesn’t stand for the most vulnerable children-the unborn-and that is a terrible stain. Thank goodness President Trump realizes the importance of every life from conception on.
Amen to that.
Oh, do you mean like the Vatican?
She’s pissed that she had to do this- and who wouldn’t be.
Good for her, enough is enough.
And don’t forget that there are plenty of scumbags in Congress that don’t want this all coming out and being fully revealed because so many are going to be implicated.
How many Congressmen have we got that are being blackmailed from all this?
Just imagine all we’ve endured that never should have happened.
I’m so glad and proud of Melania for doing this.
Can they testify if they signed NDAs?
NDAs are unenforceable in the case of illegal activities.
When accused of anything epstein, this is the proper response.
Why is it no one, not one, in congress can do this?
“overlapping in social circles is common in New York City and Palm Beach”
That is about it.
How many Beauty Pageants has PDJT been involved with over the decades without an accusation of impropriety?
Now imagine how many hundreds or thousands of “incidents” would have occurred if WJC was there instead!
The whole Epstein Op started with Robert Maxwell many years ago and was passed off to his daughter and Jeffrey boy with the same “Handler” Agencies and countries.
The proof of who was all involved is sitting somewhere and who is controlling those who are involved will never be revealed.
Congressional testimony never produces any but lies always and the liars walk without any accountability for lying.
Evil doesn’t care about truth.
The left, which is crazy already, screams bloody murder over Melania, the model, posing naked.
Melania was a model. Models often pose nude.
Besides that, Melania grew up in Europe where nudity does not have the same negativity towards it as we have in the U.S.
My sister-in-law married a man from Sweden. She quickly learned that women going bare breasted was an absolute nothingburger there. I saw that personally when visiting them, and the grandma next door worked topless in her garden.
Melania greatest first lady ever
And yes agree 1000 percent been saying it all along get these women who are victims to testify under oath
Epstein files? Glad I don’t pay attention!
She has real backbone. Always has. People made the mistake of thinking she was just a pretty face. She’s just getting wound up. Go Melania!
Love Melania
She opened the door
Maybe, finally, some accountability
There’s obviously photoshopped pictures of Trump Melania and Epstein all over the internet. Trump is 6 years older than Epstein. Yet the pictures show Trump with light brown hair not a wrinkle on his face and deeply wrinkled gray hair going white Epstein. The generic White woman with long brown hair is obviously not Melania . She’s between the two men. But Melania wasn’t even born when Donald was 25 with not a wrinkle on his face. So obvious a clumsy photoshop.
Put up or shut up, she said. We hear there are thousands of victims but only a handful have come forward due to MONEY. They either were paid and have NDA’s or are trying to get paid by holding out for the right offer or blackmailed.
If these victims were so unwillingly abused, wouldn’t one of them come forward and name names? Can’t the democrats get one victim to tell us truth about some evil republican? Something isn’t right about all the hoopla.
Excellent
Fire all the boats
Empty all the tables. Flip em over
Sunlight
Half of congress will squirm
Get a few of them to name their accusers (congress critters). Set it all ablaze
I’m more interested in a serious investigation into who murdered him because if he killed himself than the 2020 election was the “most secure in American history” (per the Election Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council) and I am a giraffe.
Truth, something, unfortunately, many folk do not want to hear. After they do, they do not acknowledge it as such. Those who speak truthfully are hated. We live in a sad state of mentality today, for quite sometime now. Small mindedness, lack of self confidence following emptiness.
Love the way the First Lady, after finishing her statement,
turned her back and walked away from the nattering presstitutes.
G-d bless you, Mrs. Trump for your charm, stamina, persistence, and class in representing us. Many, many, many people feel your warmth.
Sometimes I switch on that horrible harpy Nicolle Wallace’s MS NOW show for laughs. Today’s episode was a hilarious exercise in performative ignorance. Wallace started off her show wondering “gosh whatever is Melania Trump doing calling a press conference and why on earth is she so upset?” using words like “mysterious” and “coming out of left field.” As if Wallace and her producers don’t follow the news especially news relating to Epstein which they’re always so obsessed about.
Then came the kicker. The Daily Beast’s humiliating public apology and retraction of their article smearing the First Lady with false allegations about Epstein is all over the news. But Wallace claimed she Googled and the first article she saw was — get this — some CNN piece talking about a Daily Beast article talking about Melania’s low approval rating. Nothing about that retraction and apology. You can’t make this stuff up.
Anyway, here’s hoping for indictments of both Nicolle Wallace and her equally horrible husband Mike Schmidt, in the Florida grand conspiracy case.
Melania is as classy as they come. God has placed His king and just as much rightly,, a queen to go with His king.
Amazing to be alive during these times and seeing Gods hands at work bringing wrath to the evil works and stench of satans minions. Spit
Melania is surely made of “the Right Stuff” and good for her making the decision to air this to the public. These dems, their fellow travelers, accomplices, their criminal mindset, etc. re Epstein and host of other subjects need to be revealed, Charged, Prosecuted, and Sentenced to long prison “vacations”. It is interesting, and somewhat an oddity, that the First Lady was compelled to do what she did today. However, in addition to being a sweet woman & lady, Melania is tough as nails; she was raised under a Communist regime! Although the First lady certainly is different in appearance than the late, great, Lady Margaret Thatcher, P.M. of the U.K., those two are identical in spirit and toughness.
Good for Melania to speak out!
“Benefit financially.” We know what that means: attempted extortion.
Neither he nor she tolerated Epstein, but instead worked on exposing him for what he was. So, there was no basis for extortion, but no doubt they tried anyway.
They could describe their abuse and name names NOW, but they don’t and won’t, because the still living perps have lots o’ money & power to hurt their families
TheLastRefuge
@TheLastRefuge2
Melania Trump called their bluff, they folded.
The “survivors” are grifters. She knew they would never testify in public.
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Jim Acosta
@Acosta
BREAKING: Epstein survivors are not buying Melania’s comments. In a statement they say survivors “have already shown extraordinary courage by coming forward, filing reports, and giving testimony. Asking more of them now is a deflection of responsibility, not justice. First Lady Melania Trump is now shifting the burden onto survivors under politicized conditions that protect those with power… It also diverts attention from Pam Bondi.”
Cont….Victims’ statement (as posted by Acosta is signed and linked) ….
In addition to the victims’ somewhat snarky response to Melania’s grace….
Elon Musk volunteered to pay their legal fees if they filed civil suits against any abusers (which would include counter suits). No one has taken him up on it.
Acting AG Blanche recently said that The DOJ has released all documents and that what has been withheld is what the law said to withhold like privileged information (such as attorney-client privilege), ongoing federal investigations, duplicates, and Epstein’s downloaded porn, etc.
Also, Congress is free to go to DOJ to review what was redacted.
Melania Trump’s forceful Epstein denial draws bipartisan support from lawmakers
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/melania-trumps-forceful-epstein-denial-draws-bipartisan-support-lawmakers
Shipwreckedcrew
@shipwreckedcrew
I think this is a “put up or shut up” moment.
Quit holding press conferences and threatening to name names.
A subpoena gets you out from underneath any NDA.
Sit down in front of a Committee under oath and say who did what, when, where, and who you told.
Apple Lamps
@lamps_apple
It’s been almost a year since the “survivors” said they might get together for the first time in 20 years and put a “list of names” together… Thomas Massie had tears in his eyes… CNN called them brave. MTG took $9 million, bought stocks, and quit her job.
Still no list.
Would Love to see these Women, Put Up or Shout Up.!!!
𝐉𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐍 𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐋𝐄𝐘 𝐎𝐍 𝐌𝐄𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐀 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏’𝐒 𝐏𝐔𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐂 𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐎 𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐀 𝐎𝐔𝐓𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐒 𝐂𝐈𝐑𝐂𝐔𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐅𝐀𝐋𝐒𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐇𝐄𝐑: “𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐈𝐒 𝐀 𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐓 𝐀𝐂𝐑𝐎𝐒𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐖. 𝐒𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐃 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐀 𝐃𝐄𝐅𝐀𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍. 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐀𝐖𝐒𝐔𝐈𝐓 𝐈𝐒 𝐆𝐎𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐎 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐄, 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐆𝐎𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐎 𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐄.”
Cont and video….
Kash Patel skirts this issue entirely. Sometimes I think Donald J and Melania are working together on some things.
Trump just fired Bondi. Is Patel next?
I watched it live…….
She was trembling……p issed…..!!!!
Jesús Enrique Rosas – The Body Language Guy
@Knesix
Melania Trump just stood behind the presidential seal and formally denied having anything to do with Jeffrey Epstein, which is the kind of thing you have to do in 2026 because a gossip author said a dead pedophile told him stuff and three major outlets published it as news.
To recap the sequence: Michael Wolff makes claims he can’t prove.
Daily Beast runs a headline calling Melania “very involved” in the Epstein scandal.
Melania’s lawyers send a letter.
Daily Beast retracts and apologizes. James Carville repeats the claims. Lawyers send another letter. Carville retracts and apologizes.
Harper Collins UK publishes similar stuff in a Prince Andrew book. Lawyers send a third letter. Harper Collins retracts and apologizes.
Three outlets.
Three apologies.
Zero evidence.
And yet somehow we still ended up at “First Lady formally denies connection to Epstein from White House podium.”
This is like getting fired from your job because someone’s ex-boyfriend’s roommate said he heard you were embezzling, and then when you prove you weren’t, your boss says “well you have to understand how it looked” and makes you sign a statement anyway.
But Melania didn’t just deny, she just went full guns blazing. She called on Congress to hold public hearings for Epstein survivors.
Under oath. Entered into the congressional record. PERMANENTLY.
People who are hiding something do not ask for more hearings. People who are hiding something do not request sworn testimony. That’s not how guilt works.
That’s not how ANY of this works.
Friendly reminder that the Biden DOJ had four years and a personal grudge. They raided Mar-a-Lago over paperwork. If there was anything connecting the Trumps to Epstein’s crimes, we would have heard about it during the 91-count indictment era, not from Michael Wolff’s podcast tour.
Melania called the bluff. Now let’s see who folds…
4:43 PM · Apr 9, 2026
Hummm… hubby wanted all this to go away, but FLOTUS wants hearings? Is this her ‘Melinda Gates’ moment?