What I REALLY want to know about the news-behind-the-news is, why is Melania suddenly holding press conferences to say that she didn't know nothin' about Jeffrey Epstein and *especially* wasn't having a relationship with him?

I mean, with the right it's ALWAYS projection, right? So if she runs true to form for a conservative this probably means she had an affair with Ghislaine Maxwell.

@cstross - She's certainly throwing her husband under the bus here, both by bringing up this dreaded topic at all and second by never saying *he* was innocent of anything. And Trump claims he hadn't known she was going to make this announcement. Even if he's lying, as the report here suggests, that's a weird thing to say.

https://people.com/donald-trump-tells-reporter-he-didn-t-know-anything-about-melania-s-epstein-remarks-before-she-went-live-11947099

@johncarlosbaez @cstross

Current speculation is that due to legal discovery in her Michael Wolff lawsuit, embarrassing new evidence has come to light and she has been instructed to get in front of it.