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Something Is VERY Wrong With Melania’s Epstein Speech

The Lincoln Project April 12, 2026 11m 2,036 words
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"what a week rick i my god and and what a day yesterday was with probably like the surprise story i mean you you called me this morning because we were getting like a million questions about this melania thing yeah so we covered this a little bit on the breakdown last night but for those of you who..."

[0:01] what a week rick i my god and and what a day yesterday was with probably like the surprise [0:11] story i mean you you called me this morning because we were getting like a million questions [0:15] about this melania thing yeah so we covered this a little bit on the breakdown last night [0:22] but for those of you who missed it melania took to the podium yesterday to address the nation [0:28] and tell everyone that she has never heard of jeffrey epstein pretty much yeah i'll let rick [0:35] rock with his impression but first let's see the original yeah yeah i never been friends with [0:41] epstein donald and i were invited to the same parties as epstein from time to time since [0:51] overlapping in social circles is common in new york city and palm beach to be clear i never had a [1:02] relationship with epstein or his accomplice maxwell my email reply to maxwell cannot be [1:14] categorized as anything more than casual correspondence my polite reply to her email [1:23] doesn't amount to anything more than a tribal note i am not epstein's victim epstein did not introduce me [1:36] to donald trump i met my husband by chance at the new york city party in 1998. okay first of all [1:49] she um could not say the word trivial i think that's what she meant when she said um what what why did she [1:58] go out there listen i thought this was a good idea what is she trying to get actually they didn't think [2:04] it was a good idea because this caught everybody by surprise this caught the press corps by surprise it [2:08] was supposed to be some like melania she's a statement on i don't know puppies and kittens [2:12] or whatever but everyone was shocked by this and i heard from somebody close to trump world last night [2:19] they were shocked by this so they're trying to play it off like oh no he knew all along there's been a [2:25] there's been a great disturbance in the trump force about this story i want to say kate i've watched that [2:30] clip now three times first off there's something weird she's trying to forestall here she's some she's [2:38] trying to shut something off at the pass here i don't know what it is yet i think it has something [2:44] to do with this michael wolf material that he's leaking out to the daily beast but i also think [2:50] when you listen to that very carefully there were a lot of careful parsings in that statement [2:57] and there was also a red flag that every trump statement from any trump family member the minute [3:01] they deny something it is a full confession of guilt i was not epstein's victim i did not meet my [3:09] husband through epstein why is this point really important to make to the whole nation right this [3:13] minute i believe it is because jeffrey epstein introduced melania to donald trump and she was [3:20] his sloppy seconds there's a lot of reporting about this whole look world of models that melania was in [3:28] before she married donald trump uh with a lot of these zampoli and these other shady guys this modeling [3:34] universe that that melania was tied to and epstein was also tied to i i think there is a storyline here [3:42] she is desperately trying to change the narrative on right now and it's not comfortable you can sell [3:49] she doesn't have a lot of human emotions but she could tell she was not comfortable with that [3:53] presentation that was not she was not going out there going this is going to be fun i can't wait to do [3:58] this that was painful kate that was painful to watch yeah i'm wondering i'm wondering what the conversation [4:08] was like behind the scenes and why she felt the need to do it at the time that she did especially [4:16] when all the epstein stuff is kind of out of the news given what's going on with iran listen if the [4:23] theory is that melania was now there's a separate theory that i don't i don't fully buy but i'll take your [4:29] i'll see what you think about it that somebody floated me this morning the other theory is that [4:34] she and trump are this close they're in cahoots and she said i will distract them from you being [4:40] a genocidal lunatic who just lost a war to iran by putting epstein back in the news i can tell you [4:47] the polling on the iran war is so bad i could see why they might think that would be something that they [4:51] might want to do not sure i buy it i think there's something else going on here under the water [4:56] it just feels wrongity wrong and and also that new hair and the new blowout i there's a whole [5:04] weird vibe going on here i don't know what it is either but knowing the trump universe they make this [5:11] kind of play only when they're in really really deep water and they're really unhappy about something [5:16] coming from everything that i heard everyone in the white house was shocked that this happened and i [5:22] i i don't know i'm not i'm i'm not in that world but them being in cahoots sounds kind of [5:28] far-fetched to me i think that she hates him and she found out that something was going to come out [5:33] and she was like you will not bring me down with this i've had enough maybe there's a part of this [5:37] that maybe there's a part of this where she started teeing it up so that that when something truly [5:43] horrific about him comes down she says i told you i have nothing to do with that scene my husband [5:48] however that's what i thought that may that may be where we're going with this but i mean it's just [5:54] it's just a mess and the whole thing stinks and there's something weird about it and i suspect we're [5:58] in for a hell of a ride this weekend again because you know the war has gone spectacularly wrong iran [6:06] said today you get 15 ships in the strait every day that's it that's less than 10 of the normal [6:12] traffic they have to pay iran to go through not the us trump is his his polling numbers over the [6:19] war are now in the low 20s not too popular um and and epstein is brewing back up again it always [6:28] comes back i have a a elephant in the room today about that kate it's just epstein always comes back [6:34] it's like this weird gravitational thing that no matter what they do you know it's like in the movie [6:40] where the guy's going through something horrible and then he wakes up and thinks it was just a dream [6:44] but then he realizes it wasn't a dream he's still going through the horrible thing that's what epstein [6:48] is for them all the time it just never stops returning to haunt them so something is afoot [6:54] with melania something is wrong with this i don't know what her secret is here yet but everybody in [7:01] washington and i can tell you a hundred reporters last night were on the various chats that i'm on [7:07] and various calls and various text messages like what do you know anybody knows something what do you [7:12] got what do you got what do you got a lot of people are chasing this story right now and they're [7:16] really trying to find out what's going on and they'll eventually get it from melania's world [7:22] melania has their own little little clique of people there they're not controlled by susie [7:27] or trump or stephen miller or anybody else she has her own little clique of people that work for her [7:33] you know melania doesn't really live in the white house she doesn't spend time in the white house [7:38] she shows up when she has to do something there and then it's out she lives in palm beach or in [7:42] or in new york um increasingly palm beach for tax reasons but you know the other part of this is [7:51] i think trump himself he fired bondi and he thought okay it's gonna fix it when todd blanche went out the [7:56] other day and said no more no more i've seen files it's all done it's all over the reaction from both [8:01] congress and trump's own supporters was like oh come on man we're not buying that so maybe there may be [8:08] something coming out in the next tranche of documents or congress may have found something [8:11] in the uh in the stuff that they're allowed to see uh about epstein that has that implicates melania [8:17] or implicates trump more thoroughly i just think when you watch that performance that's not a [8:24] confident person i also noticed one other thing i make i make the funds but melania sometimes speaks [8:34] in much less accented english than she did yesterday sometimes her her accent is barely noticeable i've known [8:42] this over the years people who speak another language as a second language when they're stressed [8:47] or nervous they tend to fall back into their old linguistic patterns and accents that was some [8:54] thick sylvanian accent right there you know try though all that i don't know i don't know something's [9:02] going on if anybody knows more come you know hit us up because we are we're here to make their lives [9:07] painful dms are open dms are open no i i i yeah i think i think kate that we are about to go back [9:17] into another epstein cycle as well congress is going to want to know they're going to be back in [9:22] a couple in a couple weeks they're going to have to come back again um and you know thomas massey and [9:29] ro khanna and and even nancy mace and and and people on both sides of the aisle now are like okay [9:35] enough we're going to get this out we're going to talk gas no brakes she also called she also called [9:41] for um open testimony from the victims yeah which you know i want open testimony from the victimizers [9:51] i want the guys who victimize these women alongside of jeffrey epstein you know the leon blacks and the [9:57] les wexners and all these other people who are implicated in this and the alan dershowitz's and the [10:01] donald trump's who are implicated in this in various scales and ways i want them to testify [10:09] too i want the victims to be protected as much as we can they deserve it because they've been treated [10:15] abominably by pam bondy i mean when pam bondy goes to hell man it's going to be a great day [10:21] the devil's gonna be like oh you i've been waiting for you i've been waiting for you girl but you know [10:28] look i i think i think her calling for that um still didn't really call for justice for the victims [10:37] she didn't call for justice for the victims and there may be one of these victims who who will [10:43] implicate her or trump further there may be something about maxwell that that we're going to [10:47] find out about her all of it there's a sign of something brewing on the horizon there's a dark cloud [10:53] on the horizon for trump world about epstein and if melania is getting out ahead of it to protect [10:58] herself you do you sister god bless so she's going rogue we'll see what happens going rogue melania's [11:05] off the reservation folks beware all right well kate i hope that answered some people's questions [11:11] i don't i don't have i'm trying to get get you guys the options that i think are out there for [11:16] what's happening and if we know more we'll come back and do more because i think this is a big story [11:20] i know i know a ton of reporters are beating doors down this morning about this so let's see what [11:26] shakes loose it's all coming out we'll see you guys back here thanks for watching folks see you next [11:30] time

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