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  "textContent": "submitted by MicroWave to politics\n450 points | 37 comments\nhttps://www.cnn.com/2026/04/10/politics/epstein-melania-trump-statement-victims-analysis\n\nThe 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.\n\nBut 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.\n\n“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.",
  "title": "Melania Trump tried to sweep the Epstein saga away, but she ended up reviving it"
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