Joe Scarborough Questions Melania Trump’s Epstein Claims | EUROtoday

Joe Scarborough isn’t prepared to just accept Melania Trump’s declare she was by no means pleasant with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, arguing the primary woman’s newest remarks have carried out little to quash hypothesis.

On Thursday, Trump delivered a televised handle from the White House during which she went to lengths to distance herself from Epstein, who died by an obvious suicide in 2019 whereas awaiting trial on prices of intercourse trafficking underage ladies. The first woman dismissed stories linking her to Epstein as “lies” and likewise downplayed a 2002 e mail with Epstein’s confederate, Ghislaine Maxwell, as “casual correspondence.”

Scarborough, nevertheless, wasn’t satisfied. On Friday’s installment of MS Now’s “Morning Joe,” the co-host deemed Trump’s handle “beyond bizarre.”

“All of the reporting is that the people that were in the White House briefing room yesterday were just absolutely stunned … in part, that it came out of nowhere, and secondly, that she would actually pretend that she didn’t know who he was or that she had no relationship with him,” he stated.

Watch Scarborough’s remarks on Trump under.

He and co-host Mika Brzezinski raised doubts about Trump’s e mail with Maxwell ― dated Oct. 23, 2002, and launched publicly throughout a U.S. Justice Department doc dump in January of this 12 months ― noting that the primary woman’s choice to signal the word, “Love, Melania,” felt greater than informal.

“Again, everybody’s waiting for another shoe to drop,” he stated. “I don’t know if it will or not, but again, the timing of that was so strange, especially bringing up something that obviously the president doesn’t want brought up and calling for hearings.”

“That’s just the opposite of what the president has been talking about for months,” he added.

President Donald Trump advised MS Now’s Jacqueline Alemany on Thursday that he didn’t “know anything about” his spouse’s plans to talk to the media about Epstein. “She didn’t know him,” he stated.

However, a supply later advised CNN the president was conscious of the primary woman’s plans to difficulty a public assertion.