President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he ended his friendship with notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein because the disgraced financier “stole” an underaged girl by hiring her away from a job at his Mar-a-Lago club.
Speaking aboard Air Force One while returning from his five-day golf holiday in Scotland, Trump was asked about comments he’d made over the weekend suggesting that he’d banned the disgraced financier from his Palm Beach club for hiring away employees.
He confirmed that Epstein “took people that work from me” and did so again despite being admonished not to poach Mar-a-Lago workers by Trump.
“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.
Pressed further on whether the workers poached by Epstein included Virginia Giuffre, a Mar-a-Lago pool attendant who was recruited and groomed by Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell and raped by Epstein on numerous occasions after being ostensibly hired as a “masseuse,” Trump confirmed that the employees who factored in the dispute leading to the end of his friendship with Epstein included young women.
“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, describing Epstein as having “stolen” his spa workers.
Asked point-blank if one of them was Giuffre, who died by suicide earlier this year, he replied: “I think she worked at the spa. I think so. I think that was one of the people.”
“Yeah, he stole her,” he said.
Trump added that Giuffre, who also accused other powerful men of raping her during the time she was associated with Epstein, “had no complaints” about him.
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