Megyn Kelly has raised eyebrows over Melania Trump’s unexpected decision to address rumors linking her to Jeffrey Epstein. The former First Lady made a surprising appearance at the White House on Thursday, firmly stating, “I am not Epstein’s victim.”
In a brief, three-minute speech, Melania Trump dismissed baseless claims that the infamous financier had introduced her to her husband, Donald Trump. She also criticized unnamed individuals for their “mean-spirited” attempts to tarnish her image.
Melania categorically denied any connection with Epstein, condemning the “numerous fake images” of them together that have circulated on social media for years.
Reacting to her statement, Megyn Kelly questioned the timing of Melania’s comments. On Friday, Kelly expressed her skepticism, wondering why the former First Lady chose this particular moment to speak out.
“Why did she do this?” Kelly asked on The Megyn Kelly Show. “That’s really what everyone was asking. Why? In public relations, once the storm has passed, you typically avoid stirring it up again.”
‘Why did she do this? That’s really what everyone was asking. Why? Like, everyone knows. Everyone knows in PR, once the storm has passed, you don’t do anything to bring it back upon you,’ she said on The Megyn Kelly Show.
‘If she doesn’t want people talking about her relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell, or whatever it was with Epstein, then she shouldn’t talk about her relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell or Jeffrey Epstein.’
‘Especially when – has that been in the news? Have any of you been seeing that in the news? The news right now is non-stop Iran.’
Megyn Kelly questioned Melania Trump’s motives for giving her shocking denial of being a victim of Jeffrey Epstein
The First Lady delivered the unexpected statement at the White House on Thursday
The First Lady’s announcement came as a shock, as there had not been recent revelations linking her to the disgraced financier, who the government says committed suicide while awaiting trial for sex trafficking charges in August 2019.
She made it clear that there were no links between herself and the billionaire pedophile.
‘I am not Epstein’s victim,’ the First Lady stated during the address on Thursday afternoon. ‘Epstein did not introduce me to Donald Trump. I met my husband by chance at a New York City party in 1998.’
Trump and Melania met that year at the Kit Kat Klub in New York when the former supermodel was 28 years old.
Paolo Zampolli, a modeling agency boss who is serving as Trump’s special envoy for global partnerships, claims he introduced the couple. They later married in 2005.
‘I’ve never been friends with Epstein,’ she added.
She also used the press conference to clarify an email she wrote to Epstein’s accomplice Maxwell, stating she only wrote to her to be polite and the message did not indicate a close relationship.
Trump said he might have handled his wife’s speech differently but said his wife ‘had a right’ to do it her way.
She flat-out denied any ‘relationship’ with Epstein and claims she was never a ‘victim’ of him or Ghislaine Maxwell
‘Would I have done it that way? Perhaps not, perhaps, I don’t know,’ he told The New York Times after the speech.
‘I said, “If you want to do that, you can do that.” I said if she wants to do it — I didn’t recommend it, but I said, I let it be her, I said, if you want to do it.’
Trump said the First Lady ‘finds it very insulting’ that there were rumors she was a victim of Epstein or friendly with Ghislaine Maxwell.
‘She didn’t meet me through Jeffrey Epstein. And I could understand her feelings. She had a right to talk about it, because the fake news covers her so inaccurately.’
Trump noted that they discussed whether or not she would make the speech ‘for about two minutes.’
‘It wasn’t a big discussion. I had no problem. I thought she actually did a good job,’ he said.
Trump said that regardless of what he thought about the address, he felt his wife was right to do it.
‘I thought she had a right to talk about it. It doesn’t bother me,’ Trump added of the surprise speech at the White House entrance hall.
Trump added that he ‘didn’t know what the statement was but I knew she was going to make a statement.’
He added that bringing the story back into the news didn’t concern him, saying: ‘I never get upset.’
The Daily Mail has approached the White House for comment.
