Jen Psaki

I cannot wait to go down.

Give me a call when you're back in New York.

Have a great time.

And ends, love Melania.

Well, here's how Melania Trump described that email today.

casual correspondence, I suppose, maybe?

Although in her response to Melania, Ghislaine addresses her as, quote, Sweet Pea, an apparent nickname that seems a little more intimate than the casual correspondence the First Lady described.

And to be clear, Melania's initial email to Maxwell doesn't seem to be a reply at all, which is how she described it today.

It looks like she initiated that outreach herself.

And just about two and a half weeks after that exchange, Melania and Maxwell appeared to have connected again at an event in New York, according to this photograph of them, accompanied by Donald Trump and supermodel Naomi Campbell.

So it definitely looks like the two had something of a relationship.

The files also offer another detail relating to some other things that the First Lady said earlier today.

It appears that second part about Melania's name is decidedly not true.

In fact, Melania's name does appear in at least one FBI interview with an unidentified witness, a witness who told the agents that, quote, Epstein introduced Melania Trump to Donald Trump.

Of course, we don't know if or how that witness would know that, but it would appear to contradict what Melania and her former modeling agent have been saying about how she and Trump met for years.

So the First Lady talked a lot about herself, and in her own la-la land, she also tried to present herself, the spouse of the man withholding the Epstein files, as some sort of a defender of survivors.

Okay, first of all, I don't know if she's been living under a rock, but Democrats have tried to hold hearings.

They have brought survivors to Congress to speak and tell their stories at high-profile events.

But there have been no hearings because Republicans have not let that happen.

And there's no way Melania's own husband has wanted them to happen either.