“He took people that work for me, and I told him, don’t do it anymore. And he did it. I said, Stay the hell out of here,” he said.
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that his relationship with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein ended after the New York financier "stole" a young female employee from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort after being warned not to do so.
“He took people that work for me, and I told him, don't do it anymore. And he did it. I said, ‘Stay the hell out of here,’” he said.
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View on XTrump was asked to clarify comments he made over the weekend, where he implied Epstein had been banned from Mar-a-Lago for targeting club staff. When pressed further, he acknowledged that the staff members involved included young women, including Virginia Giuffre, who worked at Mar-a-Lago as a pool attendant.
“I told him, I said, ‘Listen, we don't want you taking our people, whether it was spa or not spa. I don't want him taking people.’ And he was fine. And then not too long after that, he did it again. And I said, ‘Out of here,’” he said, saying Epstein “stole” his spa workers.
The conversation would go to Virginia Giuffre, a former Mar-a-Lago pool attendant who was recruited by Ghislaine Maxwell and later sexually abused by Epstein. When asked if she was among those Epstein poached, Trump responded: “I think she worked at the spa. I think so. I think that was one of the people.” He added, “Yeah, he stole her.”
In previous interviews and public statements, Trump said he severed ties with Epstein because he believed the financier was a “creep,” pointing to Epstein’s 2009 conviction for soliciting underage prostitutes. That reasoning had been consistently cited by the former president and his allies as evidence of Trump distancing himself from the convicted sex offender.
When asked about the issue Monday during a joint appearance with UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, Trump dismissed the notion that he could be mentioned in the files as a politically motivated attack by Democrats. He criticized Biden officials and said that if the files contained damaging information on him that it would already have been made public.
“Those files were run by the worst scum on Earth. They were run by Comey, they were run by Garland, they were run by Biden, and all of the people that actually ran the government, including the auto pen. Those files were run for four years by those people. If they had anything, I assume they would have released it,” he said.
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