Owen

Well, I think there's a deeper persuasion play here, too.

You know, a lot of people questioned, like, why would Melania bring up Epstein when Trump is saying this is all a hoax, we should just move on?

So why would she call attention to it?

And she made statements like we should have the victims have hearings in Congress and that Epstein wasn't alone in the crimes that were committed.

And so she was kind of, you know, accusing Epstein and trying to

bring attention to it so a lot of people were asking like why would she do that it seems like the opposite of what trump was saying but i think it's kind of a brilliant move because um she's basically calling them to say okay let's talk about this let's get this all out and you know number one it puts them in a strong position because they're basically saying you know i want this all i want these people to come to justice i want these people to be exposed i do think there's more people that should be gone after

Um, and so far, I think the response, I believe from the victims was basically, we're not going to do that.

And so that puts them in a weaker position.

It's like, well, wait a second now, why aren't they coming forward?

Like, you know, now it's sort of like flipped.

And, um, I don't know how much of that was the intention.

It's probably more likely that Marcella is right in terms of the primary motivation being to

you know, be related to the lawsuit and just get the truth out to, to just make it clear, you know, that she's making, you know, she's being clear about what, what didn't happen or what did happen and getting it all out there essentially to,

avoid the perception of that she's hiding something.

Um, but I think the, um, you know, that persuasion play, I think is something Scott would have talked about that.

It's like, you know, she's doing the strong thing and she's putting herself in a strong position by saying, I'm, you know, one of the accusers essentially not, um,

as a victim but you know she wants the people brought to justice that did these things and she thinks there should be more investigations and hearings and that they should have hearings for the victims so they can talk about what happened and who it was and all that stuff and now it's kind of like the next move is back on the victims or back on you know whoever might be doing the investigating and I think it takes a lot of pressure off of the Trump administration having the perception of trying to hide or bury this

I mean, I did think there was a, I guess I would call it a good news story and another one where a person made a difference.

So this voter Mark share, I think, or Char,

He protested based on a candidate in Ohio that was running in the primary, in the GOP primary in Ohio, saying that he wasn't really a Republican.