Joe Scarborough isn’t ready to accept Melania Trump’s claim she was never friendly with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, arguing the first lady’s latest remarks have done little to quash speculation.
On Thursday, Trump delivered a televised address from the White House in which she went to lengths to distance herself from Epstein, who died by an apparent suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking underage girls. The first lady dismissed reports linking her to Epstein as “lies” and also downplayed a 2002 email with Epstein’s accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, as “casual correspondence.”
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Scarborough, however, wasn’t convinced. On Friday’s installment of MS Now’s “Morning Joe,” the co-host deemed Trump’s address “beyond bizarre.”
“All of the reporting is that the people that were in the White House briefing room yesterday were just absolutely stunned … in part, that it came out of nowhere, and secondly, that she would actually pretend that she didn’t know who he was or that she had no relationship with him,” he said.
Watch Scarborough’s remarks on Trump below.