President Donald Trump clarified that he did not suggest to wife Melania Trump to make a statement about Jeffrey Epstein - but approved of her making one. "I said, 'If you want to do that, you can do that.' I said if she wants to do it - I didn't recommend it, but ... I let it be her, I said, if you want to do it," Donald, 79, said in an interview with the New York Times on Friday, April 10. The president also clarified that Melania "didn't meet me through Jeffrey Epstein." "I could understand her feelings," he said. "But I said, 'If you want to do it, do it.