Wolff: This Is What I Know About Melania Bombshell

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First Lady Melania Trump’s sudden https://www.thedailybeast.com/melania-flees-questions-after-dropping-surprise-epstein-bombshell/" rel="" target="_self" title="https://www.thedailybeast.com/melania-flees-questions-after-dropping-surprise-epstein-bombshell/">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.

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