Trump says Epstein ‘stole’ young women staff from his Mar-a-Lago resort

Trump says helium chopped disconnected his narration with Epstein due to the fact that the enactment offender poached workers from his Florida resort.

United States President Donald Trump has said that helium ended his narration with disgraced financier and convicted enactment abuser Jeffrey Epstein due to the fact that helium “stole” young pistillate workers from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.

Speaking to reporters connected his mode location from a travel to Scotland connected Tuesday, Trump alleged that 1 specified idiosyncratic was the precocious Virginia Giuffre, 1 of Epstein‘s highest-profile accusers.

“People were taken retired of the [Mar-a-Lago] spa, hired by him. In different words, gone,” Trump said. “When I heard astir it, I told him, I said, ‘Listen, we don’t privation you taking our people.’

“And then, not excessively agelong aft that, helium did it again. And I said, ‘Out of here.’”

The US president, who had a adjacent narration with Epstein for years, has go increasingly defensive arsenic helium faces increasing scrutiny implicit his administration’s refusal to merchandise authorities records with accusation astir Epstein’s abuses.

Officials including Attorney General Pam Bondi person said that releasing further documents would hazard disseminating unfortunate accusation and kid pornography collected arsenic evidence.

But Bondi’s comments person helped substance the controversy. In a February interrogation with Fox News, Bondi said that Epstein’s expected lawsuit database was “sitting connected my table close now”.

Conspiracy theorists person agelong maintained that Epstein kept a database oregon publication of contacts successful bid to coerce almighty figures successful arts and politics. They besides person formed uncertainty connected Epstein’s jailhouse termination successful 2019, calling it, without proof, a cover-up.

Current members of Trump’s administration, including FBI manager Kash Patel and his deputy, Dan Bongino, had played up those theories successful past media appearances.

But the Department of Justice and FBI aboriginal released a review concluding that determination was nary crushed to judge specified a database existed and that Epstein had died by suicide, arsenic the authorities primitively concluded.

That assertion was met with vexation from immoderate corners of Trump’s ain far-right base, who person speculated for years astir Epstein’s ties with almighty figures and the circumstances of his death.

Giuffre has been a salient fig successful online conspiracy theories. She had accused Epstein of pressuring her to person enactment with the almighty men successful his orbit.

Until her decease by termination earlier this year, Giuffre maintained that she had been approached arsenic a teen by Epstein’s erstwhile girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, portion she was moving astatine Mar-a-Lago.

Giuffre had been employed astatine the clip arsenic a spa attendant. Her begetter worked successful attraction astatine the resort.

Maxwell, according to Giuffre, offered her wealth to enactment arsenic a masseuse for Epstein, who past sexually abused her. She described Maxwell and Epstein arsenic grooming her to execute enactment acts for different men. Giuffre alleged that “massage” was sometimes utilized arsenic a codification connection for sex.

Giuffre yet filed a civilian suit against Maxwell successful New York. While Maxwell has denied Giuffre’s allegations, she settled the suit for an undisclosed sum.

Maxwell is presently serving a 20-year situation condemnation successful a Florida national situation for conspiring with Epstein to sexually maltreatment underage girls.

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