Melania Trump made a brief statement on Thursday afternoon to answer the biggest question on everyone’s mind right now. No, not “Will the cease-fire hold?” Or “Why is Trump doing this?” Or even “Is he going to kill us all?” Apparently, the First Lady thinks everyone’s been wondering, “Hey, what’s up with those persistent rumors about Melania’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein?”

The answer, according to Melania, is that they’re all a bunch of lies.

“I’ve never been been friends with Epstein,” she said. “I never had a relationship with Epstein or his accomplice, Maxwell. My email reply to Maxwell cannot been [categorized] as anything more than casual correspondence. My polite reply to her email doesn’t amount to anything more than a [trivial] note. I am not Epstein’s victim. Epstein did not introduce me to Donald Trump.”

The First Lady claimed she and Donald were merely in “overlapping social circles” with Epstein (downplaying her husband’s well-documented friendship with the........

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