President Donald Trump said the sentenced sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein “stole” Virginia Giuffre from his Mar-A-Lago club, an impressive admission that could increase the scrutiny of his relationship with the late financial financial one, even when his administration seeks to change the issue of Epstein.
Trump was talking to journalists on Tuesday when asked about the comments he made during the weekend about the fall with Epstein because he took the employees of his business.
“He took people who worked for me. And I said: ‘Don’t do it anymore.’
“I said: ‘Stay out of here,” he said.
When they were pressed if any of the stolen employees were young women, Trump replied that many of them worked in the club’s spa.
“The answer is yes, they were in the spa,” he said. “I told him, I said: ‘Listen, we don’t want you to take our people, whether spa or not spa.’ … and he was fine.
Then Trump was specifically asked if Epstein had stolen Giuffre, who was one of the most outstanding abuse survivors of the financial and directed the position asking for his arrest. Giuffre, who died for suicide in April, said he met Ghislaine Maxwell, an Epstein associate, while working in Mar-a-lago when he was a teenager.
“I think she worked at the spa,” Trump said. “I think so. I think that was one of the people. He stole her, and by the way, she had no complaints about us, as they know, none.”
The White House communications director Stephen Cheung said in a statement last week that Trump started Epstein from Mar-a-Lago “for being disgusting.”
Epstein died for suicide in a New York prison in 2019 while waiting for a trial for federal sexual trafficking positions.
Trump and his administration have faced growing pressure in recent weeks, even from within their Maga Base, to release more files related to Epstein. The president, who previously shared conspiracy theories about Epstein, has tried to eliminate scrutiny saying that history is “boring” and denouncing supporters focused on the subject.
