{"id":71284,"date":"2026-04-09T14:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/melania-trump-says-she-not-did-not-have-relationship-with-jeffrey-epstein\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T14:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:55:08","slug":"melania-trump-says-she-not-did-not-have-relationship-with-jeffrey-epstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/melania-trump-says-she-not-did-not-have-relationship-with-jeffrey-epstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Melania Trump says she not did not have relationship with Jeffrey Epstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First lady denies being \u2018Epstein\u2019s victim\u2019 and says convicted sex offender did not introduce her to Donald Trump<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/apr\/09\/democrats-war-powers-resolution-iran-republicans-melania-donald-trump-latest-news-updates\">US politics \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/melania-trump\">Melania Trump<\/a>, the first lady, told reporters on Thursday that she \u201cnever had a relationship\u201d with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ghislaine-maxwell\">Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was unclear which specific accusations spurred the first lady to respond publicly. She delivered her scripted remarks at a podium in the same room Donald Trump used to address the nation on the war in Iran last week.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/09\/melania-trump-jeffrey-epstein\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First lady denies being \u2018Epstein\u2019s victim\u2019 and says convicted sex offender did not introduce her to Donald Trump US politics \u2013 live updates Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Melania Trump, the first lady, told reporters on Thursday that she \u201cnever had a relationship\u201d with the &#8230; <a title=\"Melania Trump says she not did not have relationship with Jeffrey Epstein\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/melania-trump-says-she-not-did-not-have-relationship-with-jeffrey-epstein\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Melania Trump says she not did not have relationship with Jeffrey Epstein\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}