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 had a terrible personal poll come out just before that apparently. I think she's oblivious AF and comes by it genuinely, just realized she was tanking...

@EricBono She's not running for office. Apparently this is about the lawsuit(s) between the Trumps and biographer Michael Wolff, which hit the discovery stage not long ago so there's lots of dirt about to come out in the wash.

@cstross

>She's not running for office.

No, but I did see a blurb on that existing.

That makes sense. Wolff really gets under their skin. Good for him. So, she obviously had way more of a relationship with Epstein/Maxwell than previously realized. Like you say, projection. I bet she's way more implicated in assisting trafficking and that's one of the reasons Donnie is so darn prickly on the subject.

@EricBono @cstross

What are the odds this all traces back to some Washington pizza parlour?

@f800gecko @cstross

Good Lord, insanely accurate