Media Scramble for Answers As President Insists He Didn’t Know Melania Would Make a Speech About Jeffrey Epstein
MEDIA BUZZmeter
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4.1 • 582 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There's no one like you, and there never will be. |
| 0:03.1 | From the producer of Bohemian Rhapsody. |
| 0:06.4 | There are many legends, but there is only one. |
| 0:12.0 | Michael in IMAX and Cinema's Wednesday, April 22. |
| 0:15.5 | It's the Media Buzz Meter with Howard Kurtz. |
| 0:20.7 | I don't flabbergast easily. |
| 0:24.0 | I mean, over the years, I've covered wars and impeachments and assassinations and murders |
| 0:30.6 | and all the ups and downs of the Trump presidency. |
| 0:35.2 | And you learn to sort of take it all in stride. |
| 0:38.3 | But I'm sitting there with the TV on, and all of a sudden, there's Melania Trump in the White House reading a speech about Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 0:51.3 | And like all the other journalists, my reaction was, what the hell is this? What is going on? |
| 1:00.4 | Why is she doing this? What is she trying to get out in front of? And we still don't have a lot of answers. |
| 1:10.4 | There's a lot of speculation. But here she was saying that |
| 1:15.1 | she was not going to put up with these smears, these alleged smears, as she put it, about |
| 1:23.7 | whatever relationship she had with Jeffrey Epstein, which she basically said was social, |
| 1:29.4 | that Donald and Jeffrey were friends, |
| 1:32.2 | and they traveled in the same circles, |
| 1:34.7 | but she was not one of his victims, |
| 1:37.0 | and she was sort of denying things. |
| 1:40.1 | I mean, I had never heard of any rumors about the two of them. |
| 1:44.1 | You know, what happened is that it kind of trickled back in the news |
| 1:51.4 | when the Justice Department, under pressure, released the Epstein files. |
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