Steve Schmidt & Jim Acosta: Model" Melania and more
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 11 April 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Steve Schmidt joins Jim Acosta for breaking news: First Lady Melania Trump made a surprise announcement about the Epstein files today from the White House. We break down what it all means. Ronan Farrow also joins, and Jim shares his thoughts on the amazing Artemis 2 mission to the moon.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:10.4 | All right. |
| 0:11.2 | Welcome to the Jim Acosta show. |
| 0:12.7 | It's another day that ends in why in the Epstein Gate cover-up. |
| 0:17.4 | Melania Trump, the first lady, the latest public official in the Trump administration, |
| 0:23.0 | to essentially shift the burden from Donald Trump, from the people around Donald Trump, |
| 0:29.3 | and covering up the Epstein files and try to distract the public with a statement that she gave |
| 0:35.1 | over at the White House yesterday. Now the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein have put out a statement accusing Melania |
| 0:41.7 | Trump of shifting the burden onto the survivors when she made that extraordinary statement |
| 0:48.1 | at the White House yesterday. |
| 0:49.6 | A lot to talk about. |
| 0:50.4 | Let's bring in Steve Schmidt. |
| 0:51.9 | Steve, great to see again. |
| 0:53.1 | We've been calling this, oh, Schmidt, it's Friday, and it's a hell of a Friday. What a week. What a week. |
| 1:01.7 | Yeah. What are we? You know, to me, seeing Melania come out there and make this statement in |
| 1:10.1 | front of the cameras yesterday, |
| 1:11.3 | I'm still, my Josh is still on the floor, mouth is agape over that. |
| 1:17.7 | And, you know, it was pretty bizarre in a lot of different ways, one in which, you know, |
| 1:23.3 | at one point she referred to her husband as Donald Trump, which I thought was strange. |
| 1:28.5 | But what did you make of that? |
| 1:29.7 | And what do you think about the fact that, I mean, they sort of rolled her out there as yet another distraction for this White House and for Epsteingate? |
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