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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-12T15:10:17.000Z",
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    "Politics",
    "Republican Party",
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    "Melania Trump",
    "Jeffrey Epstein",
    "Sexual Assault",
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  "textContent": "Newly unredacted emails from the Epstein files reveal that Melania Trump was in friendly contact with Ghislaine Maxwell.\n\nThe first lady warmly reached out to Maxwell after _New York_ magazine published its famed profile on Maxwell’s longtime criminal associate and boyfriend, Jeffrey Epstein, who was referred to in the piece as the “International Moneyman of Mystery.”\n\n“Dear G! How are you?” wrote Melania Trump. “Nice story about JE in NY mag. You look great on the picture.”\n\nSeveral photos were included in the body of the _New York_ magazine piece, including separate images of Epstein with Bill Clinton, model Brenda Schad, Donald Trump, Robert Kennedy Jr., and Maxwell.\n\n“I know you are very busy flying all over the world. How was Palm Beach? I cannot wait to go down,” Melania continued in her email. “Give me a call when you are back in NY.\n\n“Have a great time! Love, Melania,” she concluded.\n\nThe email address on the note was initially redacted by the Justice Department, though why the agency protected Melania’s communications but outed the identities of dozens of Epstein’s victims is unclear.\n\nHowever, unidentified sources told left-leaning news commentator Aaron Parnas that the email was issued by a “MelaniaKMelania” email, which was later found tied to a record of Donald Trump’s contact information under the banner of the Trump Organization.\n\nSeveral prominent Trump associates, including officials within the administration, have been tied into the Epstein files in a significant way—including the president himself.\n\nDonald Trump was mentioned more than 38,000 times in the latest batch of Epstein files, according to a review of the DOJ’s recent document dump. All in all, Trump was flagged in more than 5,300 files in the document cache.\n\nEarlier this week, Congress gained access to the unredacted files, sparking shouting matches during Attorney General Pam Bondi’s hearing Wednesday about the Justice Department’s suspicious decision to protect the identities of Epstein’s associates (and the alleged perpetrators of sexual abuse) while harming the victims by releasing their names and contact information in full, as well as failing to censor nude images of them that Epstein collected.",
  "title": "Surprise! Melania Trump Is Also in the Epstein Files"
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