Josh Gay

It was dominating all the news cycles.

The Epstein conversation, it started to fade.

And look, there are still a lot of people talking about it.

But the general public was more concerned about their gas prices and their grocery prices and will we break out into World War III than the Epstein files.

The DOJ, they were doing a good job in Trump's favor of successfully slow walking out the documents.

Bondi, she was a great lightning rod for Trump.

She was taking all the heat.

And so from the Trump administration's perspective, the Epstein story was dying down.

So naturally, the first lady of the United States decided that this was the perfect moment to give a national address about the Epstein files.

A six-minute speech where she denies ever having a relationship with Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell.

I mean, she did acknowledge writing a friendly email to Maxwell and called it a casual correspondence and a trivial note.

By the way, that email, she signs it, Love, Melania.

Maxwell responding, calling Melania sweet pea.

Doesn't sound like a trivial relationship.

And Melania says she never met Epstein until 2000 at an event she was with Donald at.

She said she was never on the plane, never on the island, never appeared in any of the court documents.

So if all that's true, then in her mind, the best way to get people to ignore the few emails that are out there and the pictures is to hold a presser about the emails and the pictures?

And then it gets truly bizarre.

She asks Congress to hold public hearings for the Epstein survivors.

And that's a good thing on its face, and I'll get to why it's not coming from her mouth.