As if the president wasn’t in enough trouble, his own wife has suddenly brought his dealings with Jeffrey Epstein crashing back into the spotlight,
The Iranians may not even turn up
for the peace talks in Pakistan with Trump’s envoys, Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner. Even his friend Bibi Netanyahu insists on making life more difficult by bombing Lebanon and, probably deliberately, prolonging this disastrous conflict.
All that is bad enough. Then you have Melania, DJT’s beautiful first lady and “movie star”. You wouldn’t say she has betrayed him. Indeed, in some respects, she must be quite long-suffering. But, as they say, her intervention on the Epstein scandal wasn’t on anyone’s bingo card for 2026, least of all that of her husband “Daa-nald”, as she calls him, enchantingly.
For no apparent reason, and a surfeit of supposed ones, she chose this time
to make a high-profile statement from the White House, standing behind the presidential podium. She tells us she’s never had a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, and that she wants his victims to give testimony to Congress, which is a bit of a surprise move from the very heart of the Trump family. Quite gratuitously, she invites us to reread the true account of how she met “Daa-nald” in her autobiography. Anything to help book sales, I suppose.
As if the president wasn’t in enough trouble, his own wife has suddenly brought his dealings with Jeffrey Epstein crashing back into the spotlight, says Sean O’Grady
www.independent.co.uk
