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ProudMNDemocrat

(20,906 posts)
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 10:42 AM Feb 27

Why Hillary Clinton and NOT Melania Trump????????

Lawrence O'Donnell made the keen observation on his show last night about why was Hillary Clinton questioned for 7 hours behind closed doors, explaining she had NO knowledge of or was ever associated with Jeffrey Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell, when all the while Mellania Trump does indeed have a history of her association and knowledge of them?

Shouldn't it be Melania Trump? This COVER UP Stinks to high heaven!

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Why Hillary Clinton and NOT Melania Trump???????? (Original Post) ProudMNDemocrat Feb 27 OP
The obvious answer is that she and so many are beholden to Putin by kompromat or cash JT45242 Feb 27 #1
Should the Democrats win the House and gain seats in the Senate, it's game on. ProudMNDemocrat Feb 27 #2
There is the Putin connection Bluetus Feb 27 #28
Melania's father was a high ranking Soviet party official for his district haele Feb 27 #29
It is important to keep the major time-line in mind Bluetus Feb 27 #34
And in 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed and Putin had haele Feb 27 #35
Right. All the stories come back to Putin's rise to power. Bluetus Feb 27 #36
True. Every time I see that wh*** on tv, I picture her with fangs - hissing: "I vont to dreenk your VLAD!" peppertree Feb 27 #30
. dalton99a Feb 27 #3
barf mdbl Feb 27 #5
Oh,come on. You know all those pics were photoshopped mwmisses4289 Feb 27 #20
Why is Maxwell dressed like that: is she a belly dancer?--and what the hell is she looking at? C Moon Feb 28 #38
Since the times of Rush Limbaugh Johonny Feb 27 #4
Exactly! Seinan Sensei Feb 27 #10
You ask the title question... GiqueCee Feb 27 #6
K&R UTUSN Feb 27 #7
This should be brought up on every news show constantly. Rafi Feb 27 #8
Yeppers 👍 TommieMommy Feb 27 #9
GOP wants/needs sideshows and has no intention to find facts Attilatheblond Feb 27 #11
Melons was Epstein's GF before she started fking T💩p. OMGWTF Feb 27 #12
Zero Evidence of This. There Are Photos of Melania & Donald With.. ColoringFool Feb 27 #18
My mom, bless her, always insisted that M is Putins daughter, mwmisses4289 Feb 27 #25
The GOP is no longer a normal political party, it is a Criminal Enterprise. The Trump Administration is a Fascist Regime Joinfortmill Feb 27 #13
Simple reason really Hieronymus Phact Feb 27 #14
Whenever the republicans are in trouble, they always look to the Clinton's for a distraction Mr. Sparkle Feb 27 #15
The thing of it, Melanoma can't even use the excuse that she's a sitting president to avoid 3Hotdogs Feb 27 #16
The TRUTH will come out. ProudMNDemocrat Feb 27 #17
Wrong First Lady gfarber Feb 27 #19
This is great! Alliepoo Feb 28 #44
bought and sold oldinmtdem92 Feb 27 #21
The reason why it's not melanoma is Layzeebeaver Feb 27 #22
HRC testimony on 26 Feb 2026 irisblue Feb 27 #23
Damn good question Comer, why not Mrs. trump to testify ? republianmushroom Feb 27 #24
She would keep invoking the 5th. Dave Bowman Feb 27 #26
Obvious question, why Hillary and not Melania testifying about Epstein? PufPuf23 Feb 27 #27
We Know Why.. But REALLY! Cha Feb 27 #31
Because Melania is not married to Bill Clinton. JohnnyRingo Feb 27 #32
Donald Trump is far worse. ProudMNDemocrat Feb 28 #42
Turnabout is fair play WA-03 Democrat Feb 27 #33
My thoughts, EXACTLY, ProudMNDemocrat. After all IT met her THROUGH Epstein & there's credible talk that she The_REAL_Ecumenist Feb 28 #37
YEAH, they should question DONALD TRUMP--- Jack Valentino Feb 28 #39
Because HC is not Republican. OAITW r.2.0 Feb 28 #40
Because they do not want to interview, let alone prosecute the guilty so they take out the old Democratic whipping girl artemisia1 Feb 28 #41
DJT bdamomma Feb 28 #43
Lawrence O'Donnell's take on Hillary Clinton's testimony. ProudMNDemocrat Feb 28 #45

JT45242

(4,049 posts)
1. The obvious answer is that she and so many are beholden to Putin by kompromat or cash
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 10:45 AM
Feb 27

Melania is a liability that might need to be careful of windows after the midterms.

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,906 posts)
2. Should the Democrats win the House and gain seats in the Senate, it's game on.
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 10:48 AM
Feb 27

Which scares the shit out of TACO, his wife, and regime.

Bluetus

(2,822 posts)
28. There is the Putin connection
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 02:07 PM
Feb 27

But there is also the likelihood that Epstein arranged Trump's original hook-up with Melania while Trump was still married to Marla Maples. That's not a crime, and Trump/Maples were apparently separated at the time. The problem is that Epstein was already deeply involved with the Russians, as Putin was rising to power.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/08/politics/epstein-putin-russian-officials-connections
Putin became President just a few months after Trump hooked up with Melania. And over the next decade, Trump avoided multiple bankruptcies as a direct result of money coming from the new Putin regime by way of Epstein in some cases.

This creates at least the appearance that Melania isn't so much his wife but is a handler assigned by Putin's people.

There are many important questions that should be asked of Melania, under oath, such as:

1) When did you first meet Donald Trump?
2) When did you first meet Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell or anybody representing them?
3) Prior to meeting Trump, did you have any contacts with Vladimir Putin, any of his close associates or anybody you had reason to believe was representing the Russian government, including the KGB or FSB?
4) Since marrying Trump in 2005, have you had any contacts with Putin or representatives of his regime, in which Donald Trump was not included.
5) Have you ever received any instructions, directly or indirectly, from Putin or representatives of his regime?
6) Have you ever made any reports back to the Putin regime, by any means, that included non-public information about Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein or any of their close associates?

haele

(15,412 posts)
29. Melania's father was a high ranking Soviet party official for his district
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 02:59 PM
Feb 27

The chances that she met Putin and they (her family and Putin) arranged for her to use her "talents" to help the Party while she was a teen are not below 50%.
She was actually a pretty girl in her earlier, pre-soft core photos.
And she appears to really like living the glamorous life, but not doing much more than that.

Bluetus

(2,822 posts)
34. It is important to keep the major time-line in mind
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 10:08 PM
Feb 27

This is not a sex scandal. It is an international extortion and money laundering scheme that used sex as bait.

Prior to 1980, Epstein was a teacher at a small private college.

In 1980, he got a job at Bear Stearns, which he used to aggressively develop contacts in internation finance, particularly dark money and money laundering.

Late 1980s, Trump and Epstein were hanging out together regularly, and sex parties were part of the bond, apparently.

In 1996, Trump bought the Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Miss Teen USA pageants. By that time, Trump and Epstein had been hanging closely for years

By 1998, it is rumored that Epstein was having some contacts with Putin.

1998, Epstein bought Little St. James Island

September, 1998, Trump reportedly first met Melania at the KitKat club. There are implications that Epstein facilitated this acquaintance. Trump was still married to Marla Maples, but separated.

In August, 1999, Putin rose to Prime Minister of Russia, and a few months later was named President.

2000 Maxwell recruited Virginia Giuffre from Mar-a-Lago who became a sex slave for Epstein

2003 - 2019 Epstein ran a billion dollars through JP Morgan accounts.

2005, Trump and Melania were married.

2006, Epstein first arrested on prostitution charges

2014 Eric Trump reportedly said the quiet part out loud, that Trump gets "all the funding we need out of Russia"

July 2019, Epstein again arrested on federal sex trafficking charges

August 2019, Epstein died in a jail cell, 2 weeks after his lawyers met with the Feds to explore full cooperation in the entire operation.

April 2025. Virginia Giuffre died, reportedly as a result of a car accident that officials described as minor. She was an accuser of Prince Andrew.

Ted Lieu reports that the unredacted files show one trump accuser was apparently never investigated by the FBI, and later was shot dead. I don't know when those events happened.

There are numerous reports of Epstein actively cultivating powerful Russian connections at the same time that Trump was being bailed out by these same Russian interests. Various contacts include Sergei Belyakov, Vitaly Churkin, Karyna Shuliak, Maria Drokova Bucher and Putin himself.

haele

(15,412 posts)
35. And in 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed and Putin had
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 10:25 PM
Feb 27

rose to power by hitching himself to the first major post-glasnost party that could defeat Gorbachev, who was planning easing the old Soviet Union into a Scandinavian style Democratic Republic.

Putin already was against Democracy and the West and knew he could destroy any mass westernization and retain support from the late Soviet Oligarch/mobsters by destroying Democracy from within before it could take hold and enough people got used to having a middle class and rule of Democratic law that they would refuse to return to being listless peasants.

Yeltsin was an easy tool to cultivate; loudly philosophical, naive, and as inexperienced with the various ways to govern effectively as the early Marxist Bolshevists were pre-Lenin.

Bluetus

(2,822 posts)
36. Right. All the stories come back to Putin's rise to power.
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 11:15 PM
Feb 27

Trump and Epstein eventually became full Russian assets, obviously, but at first, they probably just thought they were chasing after huge sums of money. Trump may not even realize today that he has been Putin's best agent. Epstein was a lot smarter than Trump, so I'm sure he knew exactly what he was doing, and was undoubtedly receiving money and clear instructions to build up this kompromat/extortion ring. And it stands to reason that Putin's people decided he had to be killed.

peppertree

(23,362 posts)
30. True. Every time I see that wh*** on tv, I picture her with fangs - hissing: "I vont to dreenk your VLAD!"
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 06:37 PM
Feb 27

"Dahlink."

mwmisses4289

(4,211 posts)
20. Oh,come on. You know all those pics were photoshopped
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 01:25 PM
Feb 27

or AI created to make them look bad. I mean they didn't really know the guy, just attended a party or two at his place because that's what anybody who was anybody in NYC at the time did.

(Do I really need to add this? )

C Moon

(13,644 posts)
38. Why is Maxwell dressed like that: is she a belly dancer?--and what the hell is she looking at?
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 01:57 AM
Feb 28

They are so frigging weird. That's what can happen to billionaires and those who collude with them, I guess.

Johonny

(26,203 posts)
4. Since the times of Rush Limbaugh
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 11:00 AM
Feb 27

Misogyny against Hillary is a GOP safe space. It's like the warm binky of the old white male GOP voter.

Seinan Sensei

(1,553 posts)
10. Exactly!
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 12:20 PM
Feb 27

“I don’t like the way she laughs”
Lordy, I heard this 100 times.
(FWIW I like the way Hillary laughs)

Relatedly:
1) i’ve never heard Melania laugh
2) I’ve never heard Orange-Blob SquarePants laugh

GiqueCee

(4,287 posts)
6. You ask the title question...
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 11:54 AM
Feb 27

... with the overly generous assumption that Der Republican Party and all its supporters have a single nanoparticle of integrity between the bunch of them. I can assure from many decades of soul-crushing experience that they do not.

Rafi

(281 posts)
8. This should be brought up on every news show constantly.
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 12:04 PM
Feb 27

Melania was very close to Epstien and Maxwell and probably had sex with Epstien, if not both.

I'd make some tv ads and billboards asking why not Melania.

OMGWTF

(5,134 posts)
12. Melons was Epstein's GF before she started fking T💩p.
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 12:31 PM
Feb 27

I think she is an agent working for Putin, her REAL boyfriend.

ColoringFool

(732 posts)
18. Zero Evidence of This. There Are Photos of Melania & Donald With..
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 01:06 PM
Feb 27

Jeffrey and Ghislaine; those were the couples.

Moreover, why should she bother working for Putin, having no access to anything important, when DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, HAS BEEN WORKING FOR HIM?!

Or did I misread, and your post was a joke?

mwmisses4289

(4,211 posts)
25. My mom, bless her, always insisted that M is Putins daughter,
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 01:40 PM
Feb 27

and that she was assigned the task of being his handler and she could do it better if she was "married" to him. Mom insisted that the reason she was so furious when he won in 2016 was that she wanted out of the marriage and had been promised she could divorce t after the election.

Joinfortmill

(21,190 posts)
13. The GOP is no longer a normal political party, it is a Criminal Enterprise. The Trump Administration is a Fascist Regime
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 12:40 PM
Feb 27

And, Conservatives need to treat it as such. They need to establish a new party, but first they must join the Democrats and destroy this menace to our democracy. Stay strong. VOTE.

And, if I may: Fuck Fascism and FuckTrump

Hieronymus Phact

(745 posts)
14. Simple reason really
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 12:46 PM
Feb 27

They want to make soundbites and gotcha segments taken out of context or whatever, that can be packaged and sold to maga morons watching fox news to distract them.

That's all this is: shooting raw footage for the latest propaganda operation.

3Hotdogs

(15,371 posts)
16. The thing of it, Melanoma can't even use the excuse that she's a sitting president to avoid
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 12:48 PM
Feb 27

a subpoena.

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,906 posts)
17. The TRUTH will come out.
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 12:53 PM
Feb 27

After the 2026 Mid Terms.

Despite all of the shit taking place to rig this in favor of MAGAts, Democrats will come out on top. Shit will be hitting the fan.

We have to show up to vote in HUGE numbers. Let's get to work.

 

gfarber

(278 posts)
19. Wrong First Lady
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 01:18 PM
Feb 27


There once were some members in town
Who sent a subpoena around;
They aimed it at Trump,
But, oh what a bump—
Wrong First Lady’s name they had found.

They’d meant to call Melania near,
Whose circles raised many a sneer;
With Jeffrey Epstein’s flight logs,
And shadowy fogs—
Instead they got Clinton to hear.

Up rose Hillary Clinton calm and prim,
Addressing the dais stern and trim:
“I honor oversight,
When it’s fearless and right—
Not partisan theater on whim.”

“You claim that I know of the pair—
Of Epstein and Maxwell’s affair;
Let me be clear:
I’ve nothing to share,
No plane rides, no island, no lair.”

She spoke of the victims’ despair,
Of predators prowling unfair;
A “slap on the wrist”
In 2008 missed
The justice survivors should share.

“You summoned officials galore,
Eight justice chiefs—maybe more;
But few did appear,
No hearings sincere,
Transparency locked behind door.”

When Les Wexner sat for his say,
No Republicans showed up that day;
The files gather dust,
While shielding the “just,”
And truth seems conveniently gray.

She told of her travels afar,
Where trafficking’s wounds leave a scar;
In Asia she’d seen
Girls barely thirteen,
In brothels beneath a dim star.

In Europe, a mother’s lost child,
By networks deceptive and wild;
While leaders looked cold,
And justice was sold,
And cruelty quietly smiled.

Back home she had labored to see
New laws for the trafficked set free;
Her husband signed law—
A landmark she saw—
The Trafficking Victims Protection Act decree.

As Secretary, pressing each land,
With programs in nations so grand;
Reports every year
Made sanctions quite clear,
Demanding a firm, steady hand.

She’d even insisted the U.S.
Be judged by its own stern address;
“No haven,” she’d say,
“For slavery’s sway—
Hold higher our own righteousness.”

But under Trump Administration’s view,
The trafficking office withdrew;
Staff cut to the bone,
Priorities blown—
A chilling communiqué flew.

“A serious panel,” she pressed,
“Would put every stone to the test;
Release every file,
Protect victims the while—
Let sunlight do what is best.”

“It wouldn’t chase me for a show,
While shielding the names that you know;
If truth you demand,
Then oath must command
The president’s answers below.”

“So what’s being held from the light?
Whose secrets are guarded so tight?
Be worthy,” she pled,
“Let justice be led—
Choose statesmanship over the fight.”

© 2026 Glen Farber. All Rights Reserved.

Layzeebeaver

(2,286 posts)
22. The reason why it's not melanoma is
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 01:34 PM
Feb 27

Because this is what America voted for.

When America votes for the opposite, then let’s see if it changes.

irisblue

(37,524 posts)
23. HRC testimony on 26 Feb 2026
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 01:35 PM
Feb 27

Secretary Clinton has been shrivling male GOP testicles for decades. Melania Trump has been emptying male GOP testicle for years.

I suspect that difference is a part of the reason

republianmushroom

(22,336 posts)
24. Damn good question Comer, why not Mrs. trump to testify ?
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 01:36 PM
Feb 27

She would have first hand knowledge of Epstein and the group.

PufPuf23

(9,870 posts)
27. Obvious question, why Hillary and not Melania testifying about Epstein?
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 02:06 PM
Feb 27

Why is because of Trump and the GOP.

JohnnyRingo

(20,882 posts)
32. Because Melania is not married to Bill Clinton.
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 07:07 PM
Feb 27

Everything considered, I think Bill he got the better of that deal

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,906 posts)
42. Donald Trump is far worse.
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 07:43 AM
Feb 28

That is saying a lot, being that Bill Clinton had to work damn hard to re-earn Hillary's trust.

Infidelity does not have to end a marriage, the unwillingness to change and grow does.

The_REAL_Ecumenist

(957 posts)
37. My thoughts, EXACTLY, ProudMNDemocrat. After all IT met her THROUGH Epstein & there's credible talk that she
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 01:47 AM
Feb 28

"worked' for him. There are NUMEROUS photos of Eppie, the Apricot Hellbeast & the 1st ho', (she worked as a "model" for Epstein and we ALL know what kind of modelling that was the same and worse photos that cost Vanessa Williams her title) Why THEE HELL is NO ONE DEPOSING HER?

Jack Valentino

(5,053 posts)
39. YEAH, they should question DONALD TRUMP---
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 02:15 AM
Feb 28

since his shitty name was mentioned THOUSANDS OF TIMES
in the 'Epstein files'----

but obviously they won't attempt to do THAT,
since it is all about obfuscation, from their side....

pedophile protectors, and if I might be so bold to say so, PEDOPHILES
on their side.....


OAITW r.2.0

(32,180 posts)
40. Because HC is not Republican.
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 03:38 AM
Feb 28

She worked on Nixon's Impeachment. Remember how Republicans torpedoed ACA type Healthcare.....back in the 90s they called it HilliaryCare.

artemisia1

(1,868 posts)
41. Because they do not want to interview, let alone prosecute the guilty so they take out the old Democratic whipping girl
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 03:42 AM
Feb 28

to distract and scapegoat with.

bdamomma

(69,533 posts)
43. DJT
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 08:23 AM
Feb 28

was mentioned 38,000 times in the Epstein files, WTH are they questioning the Clintons???

Does that make any sense???? Melania what a waste she is.

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