Trump speaks out on Melania's Epstein speech: 'Would I have done it that way? Perhaps not'

President Donald Trump said Friday he supported his wife speaking out about rumors linking her to Jeffrey Epstein – although he might not have handled it the same way and admitted: “I didn’t recommend it.”The president said in an interview with the New York Times that he knew first lady Melania Trump had wanted to address the speculation for a long time and said that he believed “she had a right to talk about it.”“It doesn’t bother me,” Trump said, adding, “I didn’t know what the statement was, but I knew she was going to make a statement.”Asked about her decision to step in front of the cameras at the White House entrance a day earlier, Trump acknowledged some hesitation.“Would I have done it that way? Perhaps not, perhaps, I don’t know,” he told the Times on Friday.The first lady’s remarks appeared to have caught much of Washington, D.C., off guard, even surprising some White House officials.“It was not clear why she had chosen that moment to talk about Mr.