{"id":71356,"date":"2026-04-10T06:58:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T11:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/in-surprise-address-melania-trump-denies-ties-to-jeffrey-epstein\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:58:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T11:58:24","slug":"in-surprise-address-melania-trump-denies-ties-to-jeffrey-epstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/in-surprise-address-melania-trump-denies-ties-to-jeffrey-epstein\/","title":{"rendered":"In Surprise Address, Melania Trump Denies Ties to Jeffrey Epstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a rare public address, first lady Melania Trump denied any knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s crimes and downplayed any personal connections to him, saying, \u201cthe lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today.\u201d She also called on Congress to allow Epstein survivors to testify under oath. NBC\u2019s Gabe Gutierrez reports for TODAY from the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a rare public address, first lady Melania Trump denied any knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s crimes and downplayed any personal connections to him, saying, \u201cthe lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today.\u201d She also called on Congress to allow Epstein survivors to testify under oath. NBC\u2019s Gabe Gutierrez reports for &#8230; <a title=\"In Surprise Address, Melania Trump Denies Ties to Jeffrey Epstein\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/in-surprise-address-melania-trump-denies-ties-to-jeffrey-epstein\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about In Surprise Address, Melania Trump Denies Ties to 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-71356","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\/71356","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=71356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}