Melania says her piece about Epstein – doth the lady protest too much?

The first lady unleashed a barrage of denials – and put one of her husband’s biggest political liabilities back on the agenda

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When Donald Trump launched a seemingly random war against Iran, there was a whiff of suspicion of a Wag the Dog ploy to divert attention from how badly the Jeffrey Epstein scandal was going.

So when Trump’s wife Melania made a mysterious appearance at the White House on Thursday to put Epstein front and centre again, was it an elaborate ruse to divert attention from how badly the Iran war is going?