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Pic Of The Moment: Melania Publicly Denies Ties To Epstein (Original Post) EarlG Friday OP
Krasnov, Melania and Putin orangecrush Friday #1
Fearless Leader wears bronzer? Kid Berwyn Friday #8
I hope she feels the heat the lying old horse wolfie001 Friday #2
Nailed the genious Traildogbob Friday #4
Bondi under oath? pwb Friday #3
Is she afraid that when Bondi is ordered to testify, that her name will be in the Epstein files? Deny early and get the diehardblue Friday #5
They are trying to bully the Congress by saying she "doesn't have to testify". louis-t Friday #7
They are asking for the hearing now before the midterms so they can claim the matter is over before the democratic party Solomon Saturday #34
Nailed it. BumRushDaShow Friday #6
Her press conference sounded like a guilty party trying to put distance between herself and the other criminals. patphil Friday #9
apparently she's not very good at gaslighting agingdem Friday #10
I bet it is the latest child jfz9580m Friday #11
Nah. She was part of the business. travelingthrulife Saturday #35
Melania? jfz9580m Saturday #36
'Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied' anamnua Friday #12
Ooooooh, GOOOOOOD quote!!! calimary Friday #14
I think shes thinking divorce.. BattleRow Friday #13
I do, too. calimary Friday #15
I noticed the newer,blonder coiffure.Perhaps she's curious if blondes really DO have more fun. BattleRow Friday #18
Wives cannot be FORCED to testify against their husbands. They can testify niyad Friday #19
Ty BattleRow Friday #22
I have noticed her hair getting blonder and longer each time I have niyad Friday #20
She's trying to protect Donnie Baby LeftInTX Friday #24
Why is she almost smiling? niyad Friday #16
She's even dumber than she looks. Dave Bowman Friday #17
Beauty may be only skin deep,but stupid is all the way to the bone. BattleRow Friday #23
Lol! Dave Bowman Saturday #30
"I did not have sexual relations with that man, Jeffrey Epstein". Next they will be quibbling about the.... madinmaryland Friday #21
You mean, her 'house-bond'? peppertree Friday #25
I think she is trying to shake off her husband bucolic_frolic Friday #26
Interesting she is pictured... OhioBack2Blue Friday #27
I think that was COL Mustard Friday #28
Maybe HighFired49 Friday #29
Pretty sure that it doesn't think. Dave Bowman Saturday #32
Mainly she's showing off the grift facelift. live love laugh Saturday #31
More relevant questions: Aussie105 Saturday #33

wolfie001

(7,780 posts)
2. I hope she feels the heat the lying old horse
Fri Apr 10, 2026, 10:59 AM
Friday
Keith is great! His YT channel is a must-see. 🏆

diehardblue

(11,135 posts)
5. Is she afraid that when Bondi is ordered to testify, that her name will be in the Epstein files? Deny early and get the
Fri Apr 10, 2026, 11:08 AM
Friday

MAGA'S to believe her!

louis-t

(24,634 posts)
7. They are trying to bully the Congress by saying she "doesn't have to testify".
Fri Apr 10, 2026, 11:14 AM
Friday

I think she will end up testifying if jail is the alternative. Her testimony will be full of "I don't recall" and pleading the 5th.

Solomon

(12,646 posts)
34. They are asking for the hearing now before the midterms so they can claim the matter is over before the democratic party
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 10:06 AM
Saturday

gets control of it.

patphil

(9,112 posts)
9. Her press conference sounded like a guilty party trying to put distance between herself and the other criminals.
Fri Apr 10, 2026, 11:29 AM
Friday

agingdem

(8,897 posts)
10. apparently she's not very good at gaslighting
Fri Apr 10, 2026, 11:29 AM
Friday

particularly when there's pics and letters to prove otherwise.. now she demanding the damning evidence be deleted and apologies given...if this was her attempt to deflect from Trump's catastrophic war I'd say she succeeded...

and while her pathetic attempt to downplay her history with the two notorious pedophiles/traffickers was a bust, she said nothing about her hubby's sleazy relationship with Epstein and Maxwell...

P.S. Melanoma... just so you know..the internet is forever!!!

jfz9580m

(17,324 posts)
11. I bet it is the latest child
Fri Apr 10, 2026, 11:40 AM
Friday

It was the one that caught my attention most. I would be shocked if this weren’t true. She was 13.
Where are those anon creeps? This has to be one of the worst stories in even this pile. Like this cannot be normalized.

The status of women is already in the fucking toilet. Just no. This…cannot..be..normalized.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/lawyer-for-donald-trump-sex-accuser-13-demands-president-testify-under-oath/

Lawyer for Trump Sex Accuser, 13, Demands President Testify Under Oath

Bloom, in a statement to the Daily Beast, referenced Melania Trump’s shocking press statement, where she denied having any knowledge of Epstein’s crimes—or any relationship with the disgraced financier.

“While Melania Trump seems primarily concerned about her own reputation today, she does call for congressional hearings. We agree,” said Bloom. “And the man who is mentioned probably more than anyone else in the Epstein files should be subpoenaed to testify: Donald Trump.”

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.



My own brain is reeling under outrage fatigue like most these days. But : 1) I really feel for these women who are truly screwed over by any standard and 2) logically this is kind of a line in the sand.

They are going to bring back child marriage at this rate. I don’t even care often about a lot of the bs that causes firestorms of phony internet outrage I saw over the years which I actually directly tie to the loss of a kind of sensitivity in the collective zeitgeist where constant outrage about bullshit is leading to this sort of yawning normalization of truly vile behavior like this.

jfz9580m

(17,324 posts)
36. Melania?
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 10:38 AM
Saturday

That I have no idea about. But she may have raised it now out of alarm at a specific story I saw this March that shocked even my weary brain. If that story is pursued, I don’t see how Trump can weather it.

The accuser seems like a generally truthful person. And it is hard for survivors like that to have their wits about them and to give consistent accounts.

https://www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein-victim-fbi-trump/article_21a2149f-f4a1-4351-9ac7-d12746f03a58.html

In her account about Trump, she claimed that he forced her to commit a sex act on him sometime around 1984. But she provided foggy details to FBI agents, including that the alleged encounter with Trump happened when she traveled north to New York or New Jersey with Epstein, who was a fixture in elite society then. Decades before he sought the presidency, Trump had already become a prominent presence in the New York business and social scenes.

Extortion and stolen funds
At one point, her mother became aware that Epstein had nude photos of the teen from their sexual encounters and was demanding money to keep them hidden, the woman told the FBI. The victim said she had seen the photographs in his bedstand, leading to a violent encounter when he discovered her snooping.

She said his extortion demand caused her mother to steal funds from her real estate company.


A truly shameful story. (I am trying to adhere to the 3 paras rule having seen “yeller” disciplined over it . Its silly..a troll.)

But the whole thing gives one a picture that made a deeper impression on me than the other stories and unfortunately I think about shit like this a lot. And sometimes try not to, which was why I was trying to stay offline.

Nancy Mace should join the dems on this. It is never going away at this point.

anamnua

(1,517 posts)
12. 'Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied'
Fri Apr 10, 2026, 12:00 PM
Friday

Last edited Sat Apr 11, 2026, 08:03 AM - Edit history (1)

Otto Von Bismarck.

calimary

(90,243 posts)
14. Ooooooh, GOOOOOOD quote!!!
Fri Apr 10, 2026, 01:14 PM
Friday

‘Never believe anything until it has been officially denied'
- Otto Von Bismarck.

That’s a keeper!

BattleRow

(2,523 posts)
13. I think shes thinking divorce..
Fri Apr 10, 2026, 12:28 PM
Friday

The art of the deal...consider the possibilities to parlay her knowledge.
Ghislaine could ,or has, perhaps provided TWOtorial..

calimary

(90,243 posts)
15. I do, too.
Fri Apr 10, 2026, 01:15 PM
Friday

All I could think of, watching her deliver her remarks was - “looks like she’s had ‘work’ done.”

Hey, I used to cover Hollywood. There was ALWAYS an undercurrent of that kind of thinking (AND “doing”).

BattleRow

(2,523 posts)
18. I noticed the newer,blonder coiffure.Perhaps she's curious if blondes really DO have more fun.
Fri Apr 10, 2026, 03:55 PM
Friday

If she divorced him,she could testify against him and in her OWN self interest.And cut FED deals ala Ghislaine.
Wives can't testify against husbands,right?

niyad

(132,874 posts)
19. Wives cannot be FORCED to testify against their husbands. They can testify
Fri Apr 10, 2026, 04:48 PM
Friday

of their own volition.

niyad

(132,874 posts)
20. I have noticed her hair getting blonder and longer each time I have
Fri Apr 10, 2026, 04:51 PM
Friday

seen her recently, try as I might to avoid doing so!

LeftInTX

(34,516 posts)
24. She's trying to protect Donnie Baby
Fri Apr 10, 2026, 06:13 PM
Friday

She was brought to the US by a sleezy guy who has connections to Epstein. However, more importantly, this sleezy guy is serving in Trump's Dept of State

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Zampolli
United States Special Representative for Global Partnerships




Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein
Zampolli's social circle overlapped with that of Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein patronized Zampolli's ID Model Management, and was a partner in Zampolli's 2004 bid to purchase Elite Model Management.[31] His name appears several times in the Epstein files; in one 2011 email, Epstein warned an Emirati businessman that "zampoli [sic] is trouble".[26] Zampolli was named as one of four partners in Ghislaine Maxwell's charity, the TerraMar Project, in 2013.[32]




Zampolli moved to New York with Edit Molnar, a Hungarian model, and lived with her until at least 1996.[6] In 2002, he met Amanda Ungaro, a model from Londrina, Brazil, in Manhattan. Ungaro had earlier been brought to New York on Jeffrey Epstein's "Lolita Express" from Paris (her agent at the time was Jean-Luc Brunel, an alleged procurer for Epstein). When they met, Ungaro was 17 and Zampolli was 32.[26] According to Folha de S.Paulo, they later married, and had a son, Giovanni. The couple attended the first Trump Inauguration, where they sat at Melania's table during dinner.[27] The couple split in 2018, and permanently separated in 2021 with Zampolli claiming that a marriage never occurred.[28] Ungaro was arrested in Florida in 2025 for conducting unlicensed cosmetic surgery procedures.[29] She was subsequently deported from the United States, after Zampolli allegedly asked a senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official to detain her in an effort to gain custody of their son.[26]

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madinmaryland

(65,743 posts)
21. "I did not have sexual relations with that man, Jeffrey Epstein". Next they will be quibbling about the....
Fri Apr 10, 2026, 05:22 PM
Friday

Definition of “is”.

bucolic_frolic

(55,353 posts)
26. I think she is trying to shake off her husband
Fri Apr 10, 2026, 07:25 PM
Friday

because well, you know, he's not too well. She's trying to escape the whole issue.

OhioBack2Blue

(139 posts)
27. Interesting she is pictured...
Fri Apr 10, 2026, 07:32 PM
Friday

...in front of the presidential seal. AI says the seal does not require the gold "President of the United States" around it to be official.
Makes it look like she is President.

I'm just making an observation.


COL Mustard

(8,268 posts)
28. I think that was
Fri Apr 10, 2026, 09:51 PM
Friday

The weirdest fucking video I’ve ever seen. What in hell was she thinking???

HighFired49

(496 posts)
29. Maybe
Fri Apr 10, 2026, 11:49 PM
Friday

she's just doing her part to keep the Epstein cases in the news. Those stories and information had slowed down considerably until her stunt yesterday.

Aussie105

(7,997 posts)
33. More relevant questions:
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 01:59 AM
Saturday

Who is her plastic surgeon?

How much money has her face cost so far?

What are the ongoing maintenance costs?

What happens later?
If she runs out of money, what will she look like in 10 years' time?

Her 'disclaimer' though, sounds about as convincing at that made by ex-prince Andrew.

Rewriting history isn't that easy.

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