White House Goons Blindsided by Melania’s Epstein Bombshell

Evan Vucci / REUTERSOfficials within the Trump White House are saying they were completely caught off guard by First Lady Melania Trump’s on-camera statement in which she denied having any sort of relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Her husband, President Donald Trump—who shared a decades-long friendship with the disgraced financier—has repeatedly insisted that the Epstein files are a “Democrat hoax” and has urged his supporters to stop discussing the matter.But his wife going public with a statement calling upon Congress to hear the testimony of Epstein’s victims reportedly took the president and his staff by surprise.Read more at The Daily Beast.