The First Lady of the United States stood behind the presidential seal today and denied a close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
That’s exhausting to read, and it barely scratches the surface of what this country has lived through in a year.
Melania Trump spoke for three minutes in the Grand Foyer, confirmed a warm personal email to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell signed “Love, Melania,” called it “trivial,” and walked away without taking questions. Within ninety minutes, the president posted a 482-word rant calling former allies Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones “stupid people” with “Low IQs” for criticizing his war. By 8 PM, he posted raw surveillance video of a woman being beaten to death with a hammer at a Florida gas station.
In any previous administration, any one of those three events would have ground the White House to a halt. Call your representatives through Resistbot and 5 Calls and demand that Epstein’s survivors get the congressional hearings the First Lady herself called for.
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