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ProudMNDemocrat

(20,765 posts)
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 09:42 AM 22 hrs ago

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 22 hrs ago OP
The obvious answer is that she and so many are beholden to Putin by kompromat or cash JT45242 22 hrs ago #1
Should the Democrats win the House and gain seats in the Senate, it's game on. ProudMNDemocrat 22 hrs ago #2
There is the Putin connection Bluetus 19 hrs ago #28
Melania's father was a high ranking Soviet party official for his district haele 18 hrs ago #29
It is important to keep the major time-line in mind Bluetus 11 hrs ago #34
And in 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed and Putin had haele 11 hrs ago #35
Right. All the stories come back to Putin's rise to power. Bluetus 10 hrs ago #36
True. Every time I see that wh*** on tv, I picture her with fangs - hissing: "I vont to dreenk your VLAD!" peppertree 15 hrs ago #30
. dalton99a 22 hrs ago #3
barf mdbl 21 hrs ago #5
Oh,come on. You know all those pics were photoshopped mwmisses4289 20 hrs ago #20
Why is Maxwell dressed like that: is she a belly dancer?--and what the hell is she looking at? C Moon 7 hrs ago #38
Since the times of Rush Limbaugh Johonny 22 hrs ago #4
Exactly! Seinan Sensei 21 hrs ago #10
You ask the title question... GiqueCee 21 hrs ago #6
K&R UTUSN 21 hrs ago #7
This should be brought up on every news show constantly. Rafi 21 hrs ago #8
Yeppers 👍 TommieMommy 21 hrs ago #9
GOP wants/needs sideshows and has no intention to find facts Attilatheblond 21 hrs ago #11
Melons was Epstein's GF before she started fking T💩p. OMGWTF 21 hrs ago #12
Zero Evidence of This. There Are Photos of Melania & Donald With.. ColoringFool 20 hrs ago #18
My mom, bless her, always insisted that M is Putins daughter, mwmisses4289 19 hrs ago #25
The GOP is no longer a normal political party, it is a Criminal Enterprise. The Trump Administration is a Fascist Regime Joinfortmill 20 hrs ago #13
Simple reason really Hieronymus Phact 20 hrs ago #14
Whenever the republicans are in trouble, they always look to the Clinton's for a distraction Mr. Sparkle 20 hrs ago #15
The thing of it, Melanoma can't even use the excuse that she's a sitting president to avoid 3Hotdogs 20 hrs ago #16
The TRUTH will come out. ProudMNDemocrat 20 hrs ago #17
Wrong First Lady gfarber 20 hrs ago #19
This is great! Alliepoo 1 hr ago #44
bought and sold oldinmtdem92 20 hrs ago #21
The reason why it's not melanoma is Layzeebeaver 20 hrs ago #22
HRC testimony on 26 Feb 2026 irisblue 20 hrs ago #23
Damn good question Comer, why not Mrs. trump to testify ? republianmushroom 20 hrs ago #24
She would keep invoking the 5th. Dave Bowman 19 hrs ago #26
Obvious question, why Hillary and not Melania testifying about Epstein? PufPuf23 19 hrs ago #27
We Know Why.. But REALLY! Cha 14 hrs ago #31
Because Melania is not married to Bill Clinton. JohnnyRingo 14 hrs ago #32
Donald Trump is far worse. ProudMNDemocrat 1 hr ago #42
Turnabout is fair play WA-03 Democrat 12 hrs ago #33
My thoughts, EXACTLY, ProudMNDemocrat. After all IT met her THROUGH Epstein & there's credible talk that she The_REAL_Ecumenist 7 hrs ago #37
YEAH, they should question DONALD TRUMP--- Jack Valentino 7 hrs ago #39
Because HC is not Republican. OAITW r.2.0 6 hrs ago #40
Because they do not want to interview, let alone prosecute the guilty so they take out the old Democratic whipping girl artemisia1 5 hrs ago #41
DJT bdamomma 1 hr ago #43
Lawrence O'Donnell's take on Hillary Clinton's testimony. ProudMNDemocrat 51 min ago #45

JT45242

(3,976 posts)
1. The obvious answer is that she and so many are beholden to Putin by kompromat or cash
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 09:45 AM
22 hrs ago

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

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,765 posts)
2. Should the Democrats win the House and gain seats in the Senate, it's game on.
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 09:48 AM
22 hrs ago

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

Bluetus

(2,600 posts)
28. There is the Putin connection
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 01:07 PM
19 hrs ago

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

(15,279 posts)
29. Melania's father was a high ranking Soviet party official for his district
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 01:59 PM
18 hrs ago

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

(2,600 posts)
34. It is important to keep the major time-line in mind
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 09:08 PM
11 hrs ago

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

(15,279 posts)
35. And in 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed and Putin had
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 09:25 PM
11 hrs ago

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

(2,600 posts)
36. Right. All the stories come back to Putin's rise to power.
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 10:15 PM
10 hrs ago

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

(23,232 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, 05:37 PM
15 hrs ago

"Dahlink."

mwmisses4289

(3,781 posts)
20. Oh,come on. You know all those pics were photoshopped
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 12:25 PM
20 hrs ago

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

(13,575 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, 12:57 AM
7 hrs ago

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

Johonny

(25,917 posts)
4. Since the times of Rush Limbaugh
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 10:00 AM
22 hrs ago

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

Seinan Sensei

(1,489 posts)
10. Exactly!
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 11:20 AM
21 hrs ago

“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

(3,792 posts)
6. You ask the title question...
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 10:54 AM
21 hrs ago

... 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

(270 posts)
8. This should be brought up on every news show constantly.
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 11:04 AM
21 hrs ago

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

(5,060 posts)
12. Melons was Epstein's GF before she started fking T💩p.
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 11:31 AM
21 hrs ago

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

ColoringFool

(533 posts)
18. Zero Evidence of This. There Are Photos of Melania & Donald With..
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 12:06 PM
20 hrs ago

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

(3,781 posts)
25. My mom, bless her, always insisted that M is Putins daughter,
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 12:40 PM
19 hrs ago

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

(20,813 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, 11:40 AM
20 hrs ago

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

(741 posts)
14. Simple reason really
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 11:46 AM
20 hrs ago

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

(15,246 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, 11:48 AM
20 hrs ago

a subpoena.

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,765 posts)
17. The TRUTH will come out.
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 11:53 AM
20 hrs ago

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

(244 posts)
19. Wrong First Lady
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 12:18 PM
20 hrs ago


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

(2,258 posts)
22. The reason why it's not melanoma is
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 12:34 PM
20 hrs ago

Because this is what America voted for.

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

irisblue

(37,246 posts)
23. HRC testimony on 26 Feb 2026
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 12:35 PM
20 hrs ago

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

(22,205 posts)
24. Damn good question Comer, why not Mrs. trump to testify ?
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 12:36 PM
20 hrs ago

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

PufPuf23

(9,760 posts)
27. Obvious question, why Hillary and not Melania testifying about Epstein?
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 01:06 PM
19 hrs ago

Why is because of Trump and the GOP.

JohnnyRingo

(20,741 posts)
32. Because Melania is not married to Bill Clinton.
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 06:07 PM
14 hrs ago

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

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,765 posts)
42. Donald Trump is far worse.
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 06:43 AM
1 hr ago

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

(944 posts)
37. My thoughts, EXACTLY, ProudMNDemocrat. After all IT met her THROUGH Epstein & there's credible talk that she
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 12:47 AM
7 hrs ago

"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

(4,797 posts)
39. YEAH, they should question DONALD TRUMP---
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 01:15 AM
7 hrs ago

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

(31,925 posts)
40. Because HC is not Republican.
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 02:38 AM
6 hrs ago

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

artemisia1

(1,697 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, 02:42 AM
5 hrs ago

to distract and scapegoat with.

bdamomma

(69,455 posts)
43. DJT
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 07:23 AM
1 hr ago

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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