Melania Trump: Lies linking me to Epstein ‘need to end’

First Lady Melania Trump said in a statement from the White House tthat the lies linking her to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein “need to end.”

“The lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today.”

“The individuals lying about me are devoid of ethical standards, humility and respect. I do not object to their ignorance, but rather I reject their mean-spirited attempts to defame my reputation,” the first lady said.

Melania Trump said she was not friends with Epstein or Maxwell but was in overlapping social circles in New York and Florida.

She described an email reply she sent to Maxwell as “casual correspondence” without elaborating.

“My polite reply to her email doesn’t amount to anything more than a trifle,” she said.