Jen Psaki rips Melania Trump's 'bizarre' Epstein comments: 'In her own La La Land'

MS NOW's Jen Psaki blasted First lady Melania Trump for her "self-important way" of reigniting the Jeffrey Epstein saga by delivering a rare statement denying involvement with the former financier and convicted child abuser.

Psaki explained how the timing of Melania's comments were unclear, especially since there is evidence of a social relationship between Melania, her husband Donald Trump, Epstein, and his conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, whom Melania had emailed multiple times, according to documents released by the Justice Department.

The public move caught Psaki — and many others — off guard.

"I was thinking, am I hallucinating? What the h--- is going on? Whose ideas was this? I had lots of questions," Psaki said. "I guess one possibility is a sign that the war really is going that badly — I'm certainly going to talk to John Kerry about that. Another is that they are trying to get ahead of a story that a reporter is working on."

Psaki, who has worked in multiple administrations, was confused by what prompted Melania to deliver her remarks.

"She said she wanted to clear her good name. From what exactly?" Psaki asked. "Because again, the unavoidable question on everybody's mind was why now, why at all, why ever?"

White House staffers were apparently caught off guard by the move.

"So the first lady talked a lot about herself, and in her own La La Land, she also tried to present herself, the spouse of the man withholding the Epstein files, as some sort of defender of survivors," Psaki said.

Melania called for a congressional hearing for Epstein survivors, so they could testify under oath — something Democrats have been trying to do and Republicans have pushed back against. A group of survivors and family members responded to her statement in disbelief, arguing that she was taking the attention away from former Attorney General Pam Bondi and the DOJ.

"First lady Melania Trump is now shifting the burden onto survivors under politicized conditions that protect those with power," according to the statement.

Psaki had another suggestion for Melania.

"Maybe the first lady can just saunter over across the hallway, in the residence, and ask her own husband to release the remaining Epstein files," Psaki added. "That would be far more powerful than her performance this morning."