Josh Gay

Donald Trump himself told a reporter that he didn't know anything about the speech before it happened.

His staff was blindsided.

And sources close to Melania say that she had been frustrated by online chatter linking her to Epstein.

But there were multiple officials inside the White House

that have said they actually advised against making the statement, precisely because the story had died down.

They knew that making this speech right now would only bring it back into the limelight, which is exactly what happened.

There were bipartisan calls for hearings are now louder than ever.

You have Nancy Mace and Robert Garcia asking for the survivors to have public hearings within hours of this speech.

Even Marjorie Taylor Greene praised Melania for it.

So the congratulations to the Trump White House for successfully reviving the one story they wanted to go away, the one that they started a war to go away.

And if fewer people were talking about Epstein because of the war, and you're Donald Trump, Melania's husband was having the DOJ run interference, and if her goal was to calm the conversation,

It's the absolute worst thing you could have done.

Unless, just speculating, I'm just going to put this out in the ether, unless, of course, calming the conversation may not have been her goal.

And when we talk about the Iranian war, there's a lot of losers here.

The United States clearly has lost what happened in Iran.

But there are a handful of winners, and it seems to be like the same people every time.

I mean, frankly, it would be really nice to know when exactly to hold them and when to fold them.

And it seems that the people that are closest to Donald Trump know a whole lot about the perfect time to make transactions.

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