00:00Reading a surprising statement at the White House on Thursday afternoon, First Lady Melania Trump denied having ties to Jeffrey
00:06Epstein or any knowledge of his crimes.
00:08The lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today. I have never had any knowledge of
00:18Epstein abuse of his victims. I was never involved in any capacity. I was not a participant, was never on
00:29Epstein's plane and never visited his private island.
00:34It was not immediately clear what prompted the First Lady to speak out about this issue now. The seemingly out
00:40-of-the-blue message came as her husband, President Donald Trump, and his administration had finally seemed to move past
00:45more than a year of controversy surrounding Epstein, especially as the Iran War had become all-consuming in Washington.
00:51Her statement came a day after the Department of Justice indicated that former Attorney General Pam Bondi will not appear
00:57for a scheduled deposition next week before a House committee investigating how the government handled its investigation into Epstein.
01:03A spokeswoman for the House Oversight Committee said Wednesday that Bondi, who was ousted by President Trump last week, will
01:09not appear for the deposition, quote, since she is no longer Attorney General and was subpoenaed in her capacity as
01:15Attorney General.
01:15Bondi has faced scrutiny for how the Justice Department handled what are known as the Epstein files.
01:20The Department's release of millions of case files on Epstein contained multiple errors and ran behind a deadline set by
01:26Congress.
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