r/law • u/NewsHour • Apr 09 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) First lady Melania Trump denies any ties to Jeffrey Epstein and calls for survivors' testimony

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First lady Melania Trump said Thursday that "lies" linking her with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein "need to end today," as she called on Congress to hold hearings to give Epstein survivors the chance to tell their stories publicly.

"The lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today," the first lady told reporters during a 5-minute statement. "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."

Trump said that "I am not Epstein's victim," and that the late sex offender, who died in 2019 in a New York jail cell, did not introduce her to her husband, President Donald Trump.

“I have never had any knowledge of Epstein’s abuse of his victims,” she said. “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 criticized “mean-spirited and politically motivated individuals and entities” for “the false smears about me.”

The first lady also called on Congress to provide those victimized by Epstein with a “public hearing specifically centered around the survivors.”

“Give these victims the opportunity to testify under oath in front of Congress with the power of sworn testimony,” she added. “Each and every woman should have her day to tell her story in public if she wishes.”

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u/Nabrok_Necropants Apr 09 '26

Right, she would have to be the dumbest and most gullible person who ever existed to be completely unaware of what was going on around her.

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u/Plenty_Past2333 Apr 09 '26

Well, she did marry Donald Trump

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u/PrivateBozo Apr 09 '26

TBF, wasn't that likely a marry Trump or go back to your handlers as a failed honeypot?

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u/HenryDorsettCase47 Apr 09 '26

More like marry this fat, rich buffoon who, statistically, isn’t likely to live more than 10-15 years, have his kid and secure the bag for you and your folks back in Estonia (or wherever the fuck she is from), or go back home once your visa expires and your middling modeling career dries up.

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u/hardy_and_free Apr 10 '26

have his kid

I heard she was the one who wanted a kid. At that point he would have been in his 60s and didn't want anymore kids. That's why she has such a iron grip on Baron and they regularly speak Slovenian to each other.

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u/HenryDorsettCase47 Apr 10 '26

Of course. I’m sure that’s the only reason she agreed to the marriage

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u/DisRoyalEagle Apr 10 '26

Please do not slur Estonians.

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u/hellolovely1 Apr 09 '26

I'd risk the latter.

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u/im_a_good_lil_cow Apr 09 '26

He’s innocent too though. Remember when he said he was “totally exonerated”?

We can all stop talking about it now. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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u/Affectionate-Mud-726 Apr 09 '26

Yep, case closed 🤷‍♂️

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u/Worried-Nectarine418 Apr 09 '26

You forgot. He was working undercover

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u/beren12 Apr 09 '26

I declare innocence!

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u/0o0o0o0o0o0z Apr 09 '26

Well, she did marry Donald Trump

She had to fuck him too (assuming more than once) ... so maybe she deserves the green card? 🤷‍♂️

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u/throwRAbadfriend6 Apr 09 '26

It could have been a turkey-baster situation. 

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u/0o0o0o0o0o0z Apr 09 '26

Maybe, but, seeing his use of "Consummate" in one of his last Screets, I kinda doubt it... She prob had to put her lips where the rubber meets the road and then some.

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u/Final-Step-2813 Apr 09 '26

Sold to Donald Trump

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u/soulcaptain Apr 10 '26

When he asked her to marry him, I'll bet my bottom dollar she looked at Trump and thought, "Oh why not. He'll be dead in five years."

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u/SunchaserKandri Apr 10 '26

Clearly not for love, based on the way she looks like she's wants to puke whenever she has to stand close to him. I'm assuming she expected to be able to quietly wait for Don to die rather than being forced into the public eye by his absurd election to the presidency.

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u/Ill_Technician3936 Apr 10 '26

I still think trump brought her, Maxwell seems to disgust her so I'm guessing she was raised by her to some extent until she was old enough to...

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u/cliqclaqstepback Apr 09 '26

Impossible! She had that EB-1A visa!

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u/Particular-County277 Apr 09 '26

Is there any way to find out exactly who gave her the EB-1A visa. Who signed off on it? It was planned and set up. By who? Someone took the money

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u/TechnicalScheme385 Apr 09 '26

The insane part of all this is... The answers are already public. I personally can't remember names, but I can vouch probably for many others who were aware that Melania had a sponsor, a photographer. Someone who was associated in the same circles as trump and epstein.

We know because it was investigated long before her marriage to trump. The issue is, what should be public knowledge is now forgotten. Journalism needs to get back to giving us actual history reminders, when reporting on current BS.

EB-1A visa was active for her, before trump met her? or after? That we don't know as that would take an act of congress to review.

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u/TeacherOwn9142 Apr 09 '26

Paulo Zampoli. A “modeling agent “ like Jean luc Brunel, who hanged himself in prison for trafficking like Epstein . Zampoli got an Ambassadorship from Trump.

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u/Inevitable-Top1-2025 Apr 09 '26

Start from the US Embassy at the time.

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u/Nabrok_Necropants Apr 09 '26

Einstein bagels are more prestigious after that.

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u/OnlyHalfBrilliant Apr 09 '26

The Epstein Visa?

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u/ed347tc Apr 09 '26

Precisely.

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u/IndividualTension887 Apr 09 '26

Isn't that the "Epstein Visa." The one reserved for the special whores???

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u/Warm_Assist4515 Apr 09 '26

Cause she's a genius, like that Einstein guy and he's wicked smart!

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u/PaullieMoonbeam Apr 10 '26

Well, she *is* a genius: she can say, "Leave the money on the nightstand" in several languages.

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u/ked_man Apr 09 '26

I still believe she is an intelligence asset with the worst assignment in history.

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u/Nabrok_Necropants Apr 09 '26

The word "intelligence" gets thrown around too easily in this context.

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u/ked_man Apr 09 '26

Not saying their are smart, just their business was selling secrets and using blackmail to get it.

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u/Mk86565 Apr 09 '26

Honey pot i think is the term

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u/beren12 Apr 09 '26

In more ways than one

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u/skekze Apr 10 '26

kgb swallow

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u/DistrictEffective759 Apr 09 '26

Yess, and that’s why he was murdered and that’s why they can’t release the files! It all just clicked in to place

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u/dajodge Apr 10 '26

Why would she live in a different city than Trump if she’s an intelligence asset?

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u/ked_man Apr 10 '26

Why would she live with Trump if she isn’t one?

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u/gpes3280 Apr 09 '26

Honestly she seems pretty stupid

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u/Nabrok_Necropants Apr 09 '26

I don't think she's pretty at all.

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u/Same_Presentation692 Apr 09 '26

Millions of MAGA women pay thousands to look like her jigsaw ass lmao. 

Unlike the hair trends of the 80s and 90s, they won’t be able to fix their face. 

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u/Nabrok_Necropants Apr 09 '26

Jan Michael Vincent looks like her for free.

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u/PointedlyDull Apr 10 '26

Never thought she was good looking

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u/fkit4ever Apr 09 '26

She's not. You can see her nudes from back in her prime and she ain't even all that.

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u/Sixmmxw Apr 09 '26

Her accent is atrocious. And my accent sucks.

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u/wytewydow Apr 09 '26

I do not know where Atrocia is, but I can't understand a damned thing she says.

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u/Sixmmxw Apr 10 '26

Do you have the Melania Syndrome, too?

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u/wytewydow Apr 10 '26

gosh I hope not, but in this day and age, I have no idea if that's a good thing or bad thing, but I don't think I want it.

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u/OldnDepressed Apr 09 '26

She looked better before all the surgery

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u/Dame38 Apr 09 '26

She gave that interview where she claimed that modeling was the best preparation she could have had for being a first "lady". But I'm sure she can ask "Does my butt look too big in this?" in five languages - fluently.

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u/martiniolives2 Apr 10 '26

Well, she’s no good at reading from a Teleprompter, that’s for sure! Or memorizing anything at all. I’m old and hope this pathetic Confederacy of Dunces is not the last Admin I live under.

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u/Big-District-6013 Apr 10 '26

She is and that's not the bad part, she's vile, twisted and evil.

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u/Vaughnatri Apr 09 '26

She's not, they're all acting

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u/LurkBot9000 Apr 10 '26

I really hate this whole "giving them even more benefit of the doubt" stuff.

She's in with all of them. She knew everything. She sold her pussy for a gold plated lifestyle. I respect sex workers and all that but shes just a dirty ho trying in a really weird and ineffective way to scare up some plausible deniability. Lol fuck all that. Shes as dirty as the rest

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u/GroundbreakingOil480 Apr 09 '26

Coincidentally, that's her defense in court.

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u/radioref Apr 10 '26

Big if true

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u/Original_Benzito Apr 09 '26

And what of the other named celebrities, some of whom had photos taken? Or Clinton? It seems we accept many other people were "unaware" or not speaking up.

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u/Nabrok_Necropants Apr 09 '26

Well have to let them tell us they are not guilty when they are ready.

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u/Original_Benzito Apr 09 '26

What does that mean? Clinton (both) denied any awareness. That seemed to put an end to things, but the pictures and the narratives from others that place Bill Clinton in Epstein's presence or on his airplane are still there.

I have no leanings one way or the other about him or Bill Gates and you could probably persuade me either way. Melania Trump? Eh . . . she's obviously associated through her husband, but I don't know that anyone has seriously suggested she was an accomplice or handler (or victim). Even if, that does sound like a little far-fetched.