I just have to start with something absolutely mind-blowingly bananas that happened today.

I mean, you probably didn't know that Melania Trump was scheduled to deliver a rare public statement today.

But even if you did know, you probably didn't guess she was going to single-handedly reignite the whole Epstein scandal in the process.

And when she reached the podium today, in a very self-important way, she cut right to the chase.

Good afternoon.

The lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today.

I mean, well, good afternoon to you, Melania Trump. I mean, I was watching that in my office.

First of all, popped up on the screen. I was like, what is happening here? And I was thinking,

am I hallucinating? What the hell is going on? Whose idea was this? I had lots

of questions. I mean, I guess one possibility is that it's a sign the war really is going that

badly. I'm certainly going to talk to John Kerry about that. Another is that they are trying to get

ahead of a story that a reporter is working on.

I guess we'll learn if that's the case soon enough.

Who knows?

Now, during her remarks, the First Lady went on to denounce what she described as false smears against her,

citing numerous fake images and statements on social media, and saying she said that she wanted to clear her good name. From what exactly? Because again,

the unavoidable question on everyone's mind was, why now? Why at all? Why ever? I mean, most

people hearing her remarks probably had never even heard any of the so-called lies she was responding to.

According to MS now, lots of White House staffers were caught off guard. And Trump himself claimed, claimed he knew nothing about

her statement, though that seems a little hard to believe. Especially when you consider that

Melania's own spokesperson told the New York Times that the president knew beforehand that she was going to

make a statement. But, I mean, regardless of who knew what and when they knew it inside the White

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