On April 9, 2026, First Lady Melania Trump stepped to the White House podium and told the press corps she had never met Ghislaine Maxwell. Hours earlier, the Epstein Files Transparency Act release had dropped two Getty Images photographs into the public record — EFTA01600354 and EFTA01600353, both dated February 12, 2000. The caption attached to the documents reads: "From left, American real estate developer Donald Trump and his girlfriend (and future wife), former model Melania Knauss, finan...
