On April 9, Melania Trump held a lone press conference. She showed up in a charcoal suit, delivered a speech and turned to exit, runway style, without pausing. Melania doesn’t take questions from the press.

The facts, according to Melania: Jeffrey Epstein had not introduced her to Donald Trump. She met her husband, “by chance, at a New York City party, in 1998.” She and her husband were acquainted with Ghislaine Maxwell and Epstein, but this was “common in New York City and Palm Beach.” She had engaged Maxwell in polite “casual correspondence” over email. That was the extent of the relationship. “I am not Epstein’s victim,” she said somberly. White House staff were perplexed.

Why had the presser been called? There have been growing rumors that Paolo Zampolli – the modeling agent Melania credits with encouraging her to move to the United States – may have used his ties to the Trumps to have his ex-partner Amanda Ungaro deported. How this might have been related to Epstein is unclear. Alan Dershowitz, Trump and Epstein’s former lawyer, told me: “My own speculation is that she heard that there was going to be some terrible lie that’s going to come out, and she preempted it and she got in front of it.”

I asked what kind of a lie it may be. He said it could be anything. When I asked about Zampolli, Dershowitz said “I’m sorry, I don’t know who you’re talking about.”

Toward the end of her six-minute speech, Melania asked Congress to........

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