Hey, guys, this is Andrew Egger with the bulwark. You don't hear all that much on a regular newsday

out of Melania Trump. The first lady, she keeps kind of a low profile. She pops up every once in a while

to like look at an eclipse or do an Easter egg roll or sell a coffee table book or do a movie.

She did a very strange press conference today that none of us were expecting kind of like caught us

all totally by surprise

with the subject matter she chose and all the things she had to say about it.

And so here to talk about that very strange Melania Trump press conference.

I've got our, my good buddy, our right wing media correspondent, Will Summer, Will.

Melania took the stage. She walked out there. It was like all kind of normal, like kind of, you know, straight-laced White House. We will begin

shortly official, you know, White House stuff. And then she got up there and started talking about

how she's never been friends with Jeffrey Epstein.

All associations between her and Jeffrey Epstein have been totally trumped up by the lying lib media. She's never been victimized by Jeffrey Epstein. She's not a witness against Jeffrey Epstein. I mean, my eyes were just bugging more and more out of my head all through this press conference. What just happened? What did we just see from the first lady? Yeah, you know, this is something we say a lot around here and even have said a lot in the past week or so. But, like, this is one of the strangest things like we've gotten out of a White House in terms of a press event or a speech. I mean, there was no lead up. It was just like, Malani is going to make a speech. And she comes out and she goes, all right, first things first, I was not involved with

Jeffrey Epstein essentially. You know, I was like, what? Good afternoon. The lies linking me

with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today. So she uses this speech. It seems like

she's trying to front run some kind of article.

She's saying, you know, there's a lot of fake images floating on there, out there online.

So who knows? I mean, it's almost hard for us to like comment on because it's such a strange

statement that it's hard to know what exactly is going on. But it seems as though they're trying to

lay the groundwork to have people disbelieve some bit of news or maybe a new file, something that's going to come out about Melania's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein or Galane Maxwell. Yeah. So let's just pause here for a second and just hit a couple of these clips. They're just strange. I mean, you almost have to like see them to believe them. First of all, it was billed as a press conference. She did not actually take any press questions.

She just got out there, she talked for five minutes,

and then she split.

I am not Epstein's victim.

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