MS NOW host Jen Psaki couldn’t contain her amused bewilderment on Thursday at first lady Melania Trump’s seemingly sudden decision to deliver remarks about her past ties to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his convicted former accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.
“I just have to start with something absolutely mind-blowingly bananas that happened today,” Psaki said at the very top of her show.
“I mean, you probably didn’t know that Melania Trump was scheduled to deliver a rare public statement today,” she continued. “But even if you did know, you probably didn’t guess she was going to single-handedly reignite the whole Epstein scandal in the process. And when she reached the podium today in a very self-important way, she cut right to the chase.”
Psaki played a clip of the first lady stating in the Grand Foyer of the White House, “Good afternoon. The lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today.” It was the same room President Donald Trump used last week to deliver remarks on the Iran war.
“I mean, well, good afternoon to you, Melania Trump!” a chuckling Psaki said when the clip ended. “I mean, I was watching that in my office — first of all, it popped up on my screen and I was like, ‘What is happening here?’ — and I was thinking, ’Am I hallucinating? What the hell is going on? Whose idea was this? I had lots of questions.”
