{"id":87604,"date":"2026-04-09T19:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87604"},"modified":"2026-04-09T19:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:22:13","slug":"melania-trump-makes-shock-statement-saying-lies-linking-her-to-jeffrey-epstein-must-stop-first-lady-addresses-world-from-white-house-and-states-paedophile-financier-did-not-introduce-me-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/09\/melania-trump-makes-shock-statement-saying-lies-linking-her-to-jeffrey-epstein-must-stop-first-lady-addresses-world-from-white-house-and-states-paedophile-financier-did-not-introduce-me-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Melania Trump makes shock statement saying &#8216;lies&#8217; linking her to Jeffrey Epstein &#8216;must stop&#8217;: First Lady addresses world from White House and states paedophile financier &#8216;did not introduce me to Donald&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2026\/04\/09\/19\/107777825-15720049-image-a-54_1775760214933.jpg\" alt=\"'I've never been friends with Epstein,' Melania Trump said during an address at the White House on Thursday afternoon\" \/><\/p>\n<p>First Lady\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-440b9920-3443-11f1-8af3-dbcf96a70d64\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/melania-trump\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Melania Trump<\/a><\/span>\u00a0is pushing back on claims she was linked to the disgraced financier and sex offender\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-3e67e4e0-3445-11f1-a4e2-1b1e7a1224ed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/jeffrey_epstein\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in a surprise address at the\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-093cdc40-3444-11f1-a4e2-1b1e7a1224ed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/white-house\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">White House<\/a><\/span>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15720049\/Melania-Trump-makes-shock-statement-saying-lies-linking-Jeffrey-Epstein-stop.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>First Lady\u00a0Melania Trump\u00a0is pushing back on claims she was linked to the disgraced financier and sex offender\u00a0Jeffrey Epstein\u00a0in a surprise address at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Trump-and-Epstein.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87605,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87604\/revisions\/87605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}