Protesting Too Much

“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” From the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare. Act III, Scene I

Teachers and parents of young children know when they aren’t telling the truth by both body language and hear them protesting way too much.

The more passionate the claim of innocence, the more information comes out that only the perpetrator would know.

With that in mind, it was fascinating to see Melania Trump claim she is being attacked by the media and individuals seeking to defame her and sully her career by claiming she had a close relationship with both Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell.

Anyone with even a little knowledge of Epstein and his decades-old relationship with Donald Trump learned via court filings, Epstein’s emails, dozens of pictures and media investigations that she, her husband, and Maxwell, were indeed thick as thieves.

“The lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today,” she said on Thursday during a quickly assembled press conference.

“The ‌individuals lying about me are devoid of ethical standards, humility and respect,” she added. “I do not object to their ignorance, but rather, I reject their mean-spirited attempts to defame my reputation. I never (sic) been friends with Epstein.”

Well alrighty, now.

First and foremost, and like her husband, she’s a grifter. Protesting any entity trying to “defame my reputation” begs the question: What reputation?

Outside of marrying Trump and hanging tough with the same people she now claims she didn’t know, her “reputation” was literally created in the same arena she is now denying.

Her “modeling career” was nowhere near that of a Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford or Linda Evangelista.

In fact, by the time she met Trump the shelf life of that career was already near its expiration date.

Grifters, politicians, and even preachers often deny, at first, crimes they committed, or lies they claim they never said.

Bill Clinton swore he never “had sex with that woman.”

Richard Nixon proclaimed “I am not a crook”.

Jimmy Swaggert, the famed Pentecostal “televangelist” and pastor, had millions of followers from around the world before confessing on television, tears flowing down his cheeks, that “I have sinned” after strongly denying for months that he had sex with numerous prostitutes.

Shortly after the murder of Charlie Kirk, Benjamin Netanyahu said he, nor the Mossad, had anything to do with the killing before anyone had a chance to ask.

As Melania read her protest statement, the world continues to be deeply distracted by the latest trauma caused by the madness of Trump and Netanyahu who started a war with Iran, a sovereign country posing zero threat to the U.S.

The collateral damage from this aggressive and cruel move came in its first onslaught as close to 200 children, their parents and teachers at a girls primary school in Minab, Southern Iran, were killed by a U.S. Tomahawk missile and classic “double tap” of follow-up missiles to make sure everyone was dead.

Then came the global financial and energy crisis caused by Iran’s closing of the Strait of Hormuz which halted shipments of oil and vital fertilizer needed by farmers across the world to grow crops to feed their people.

Nobody, however, has forgotten about the Epstein files.

Once things settle down (and it will) I am certain, to use a line from Melania’s protest speech that those “devoid of ethical standards, humility and respect”, like her husband, will be back under scrutiny as the Epstein horrors continue to unfold.

Finally, the ribbon she tried to awkwardly tie around this box of denial was her direct appeal to congress to intervene, and dig even deeper into the millions of files yet to be released

“I call on Congress to provide the women who have been victimized by Epstein with a public hearing specifically centered around the ⁠survivors,” she said.

“Give these ​victims their opportunity to testify under oath in front of Congress with the power ​of sworn testimony. Each and every woman should have her day to tell her story in public, if she wishes, and then her testimony should be permanently entered into the ​Congressional Record. Then, and only then, we will have the truth.”

The very thing her husband, the sycophants in his cabinet and Department of Justice as well as the majority of republican senators and congressmen have been doing backflips to avoid, she is now requesting on her own volition.

It’s possible that Melania, the grifter, is pulling herself away from the Epstein mess by claiming she was never a part of it, and has thrown her husband and her party friends under the bus.

Perhaps something is about to happen that will bring to light even more devastating information about Epstein’s deep ties to the wealthy, politicians, heads of state, and would-be models working in agencies that catered to them by any means necessary.

Or, she may think her husband’s deteriorating health is at a point he can no longer be manipulated by marionette strings with little strength left to hold up a body obviously rotting from the inside out.

Then again, it may all be as basic as a grifter simply doing what a grifter does in the face of exposure–they cut ties with anyone and anything that will shed light on their illegal activities and immoral acts.

This means betrayal, lies, delusions, and backstabbing are all weapons now available for use in the grifter arsenal and Melania seems to have fired the first shots in this grifter mass exit from a sinking ship.

The crowded ramp, however, can only hold so many bodies before it collapses and they will do anything to survive by any means necessary,