To the editor: When requested Thursday if he knew what the primary woman was going to say, President Trump replied that he didn’t “know something about” it. One factor is for certain: Now he is aware of.
Melania Trump’s name for congressional hearings that includes the victims of Jeffrey Epstein represents a stark reversal from prior indications given by the White Home and the Justice Division that the case is closed (“Melania Trump delivers statement at White House denying ties to Epstein and knowledge of his crimes,” April 9). If Home Republicans observe via and convene the hearings the primary woman is urging, then they are going to be moving into territory the administration itself has been wanting to keep away from.
One can solely surprise how Melania and the president’s contradiction will play out, particularly behind closed doorways. However that’s in the end inappropriate.
What actually issues is that this: If such hearings do happen, the main focus should stay the place it belongs — giving a voice to Epstein’s victims and guaranteeing their testimony is absolutely heard.
For that, Melania Trump deserves credit score for talking out so courageously. If solely her husband was as clear-headed.
Denny Freidenrich, Laguna Seashore
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To the editor: On Thursday, First Woman Melania Trump made a uncommon public look and an announcement about herself and her relationship with the abhorrent, disgraced pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. She stated she had no relationship in anyway with Epstein and made an evocative plea that such accusations “should cease.”
We, after all, have no idea and can seemingly by no means know the reality and details about her relationship with Epstein, however that’s not the purpose. To me, the essential and related level is that the primary woman, throughout a month-long information cycle that understandably has been targeted on the Iran battle and void of Epstein information, has single-handedly resurrected curiosity in and a spotlight to the Epstein scandal. Maybe, some might say that with a spouse like her, who wants enemies? Her press convention on Thursday revived and amped up curiosity in a information story that her husband seemingly desperately needs to go away and by no means return.
Ken Derow, Swarthmore, Pa.
