{"id":71310,"date":"2026-04-09T17:54:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/melania-says-her-piece-about-epstein-doth-the-lady-protest-too-much\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T17:54:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:54:50","slug":"melania-says-her-piece-about-epstein-doth-the-lady-protest-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/melania-says-her-piece-about-epstein-doth-the-lady-protest-too-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Melania says her piece about Epstein \u2013 doth the lady protest too much?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first lady unleashed a barrage of denials \u2013 and put one of her husband\u2019s biggest political liabilities back on the agenda<\/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\/us-news\/video\/2026\/apr\/09\/melania-trump-says-she-never-had-a-relationship-with-jeffrey-epstein-video\">Video: Melania Trump says she \u2018never\u2019 had relationship with Epstein<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When Donald Trump launched a seemingly random war against Iran, there was a whiff of suspicion of a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wag_the_Dog\">Wag the Dog<\/a> ploy to divert attention from how badly the Jeffrey Epstein scandal was going.<\/p>\n<p>So when Trump\u2019s wife Melania made a mysterious appearance at the White House on Thursday to put Epstein front and centre again, was it an elaborate <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/chucktodd\/status\/2042312787892859197?s=20\">ruse to divert attention<\/a> from how badly the Iran war is going?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/09\/melania-trump-epstein-lies\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first lady unleashed a barrage of denials \u2013 and put one of her husband\u2019s biggest political liabilities back on the agenda US politics \u2013 live updates Video: Melania Trump says she \u2018never\u2019 had relationship with Epstein When Donald Trump launched a seemingly random war against Iran, there was a whiff of suspicion of a &#8230; <a title=\"Melania says her piece about Epstein \u2013 doth the lady protest too much?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/melania-says-her-piece-about-epstein-doth-the-lady-protest-too-much\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Melania says her piece about Epstein \u2013 doth the lady protest too much?\">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-71310","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\/71310","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=71310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}