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President Trump connected Tuesday claimed that Jeffrey Epstein “took” young women moving astatine a spa astatine Mar-a-Lago years agone arsenic the president continues to beryllium dogged by questions regarding his narration with the disgraced financier.
Trump had antecedently revealed that portion of his falling retired with Epstein progressive throwing him retired of the Mar-a-Lago spa for poaching employees from the resort.
Speaking to reporters connected Air Force One upon his instrumentality to Scotland, Trump went into further detail, claiming that 1 of those employees included Virginia Giuffre, who was 1 of Epstein’s astir vocal accusers. She died by termination successful April.
“I don’t know. I deliberation she worked successful the spa. I deliberation so. I deliberation that was 1 of the people, yeah, helium stole her. And by the way, she had nary complaints astir us, arsenic you know. None whatsoever,” the president said of Giuffre.
Trump’s claims person not been independently verified. A erstwhile lawyer for Giuffre did not instantly respond to The Hill's petition for comment.
When asked if the different workers Epstein took from his Mar-a-Lago edifice successful Florida were young women, Trump replied, “Yes, they were.” And, erstwhile pressed, helium said that they were mostly spa workers.
“People that enactment successful the spa. I person a large spa, 1 of the champion spas successful the satellite astatine Mar-a-Lago and radical were taken retired of the spa, hired by him. In different words, gone. And different radical would travel and complain, ‘This feline is taking radical from the spa.’ I didn’t cognize that,” Trump said.
He continued, “And past erstwhile I heard astir it, I told him. I said, ‘Listen, we don’t privation you taking our people.’ Whether it was spa oregon not spa. I don’t privation him taking people. And helium was fine, past not excessively agelong aft that helium did it again and I said, ‘out of here.’”
The comments mostly physique from ones Trump made connected Monday wherever was asked wherefore helium had thrown Epstein retired of his Mar-a-Lago edifice owed to the poaching of employees.
“For years, I wouldn’t speech to Jeffrey Epstein … due to the fact that helium did thing that was inappropriate. He hired help,” helium said.
“He stole radical that worked for me; I said don’t ever bash that again. He did it again, and I threw him retired of the place,” Trump added.
The president meantime has punted erstwhile asked astir a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime Epstein subordinate who spoke with the Department of Justice past week.
“I’m allowed to springiness her a pardon,” Trump said. “Nobody’s approached maine with it, nobody’s asked maine astir it. It’s successful the news, astir that, that facet of it. But close present it would beryllium inappropriate to speech astir it.”
Trump said Friday helium hadn’t thought about pardoning Maxwell and called connected reporters to absorption connected different Epstein associates and different topics.
