Washington (USA), Apr. 11 (LaPresse) – In a brief phone interview with the New York Times, Donald Trump stated that he was aware that his wife wanted to speak about Jeffrey Epstein and that he believed the first lady had the right to do so, although he did not know exactly what she planned to say. "It doesn’t bother me," the president said, referring to the statements made by Melania Trump on Thursday. "I didn’t know what the statement would be, but I knew she would make one," the president said. Trump said that his wife had long been troubled by the media coverage she received and by the rumors linking her to Epstein. What particularly upset her, the tycoon explained, was a theory according to which it was Epstein who introduced her to her future husband. In the statements released on Thursday, the first lady retraced the story of her meeting with Trump, which took place "by chance at a party in New York in 1998." She also specified that she met Epstein for the first time only two years after that episode.
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