Trump says Jeffrey Epstein 'stole' Virginia Giuffre from Mar-a-Lago spa

President Donald Trump connected Tuesday said that Jeffrey Epstein "stole" Virginia Giuffre from her occupation moving successful the spa of Trump's Mar-a-Lago nine successful Florida.

Trump told reporters that Epstein's poaching of Giuffre successful the aboriginal 2000s was 1 of astatine slightest 2 instances successful which the notorious sex offender stole a idiosyncratic from the Mar-a-Lago spa.

Giuffre, years later, went nationalist with allegations that she had been sexually abused by Epstein arsenic a teen and passed astir to different men who besides abused her.

Trump connected Monday had said helium chopped ties with his then-friend Epstein successful the mid-2000s due to the fact that "he stole radical who worked for me" aft being warned against doing so.

Asked Tuesday aboard Air Force One if immoderate of those workers were young women, Trump replied, "Well, I don't privation to say, but everyone knows the radical that were taken."

"People were taken retired of the spa, hired by" Epstein, Trump said.

"I told him, I said, 'Listen, we don't privation you taking our people, whether it was spa oregon nary spa,'" said Trump.

"And helium was fine. And past not agelong aft that, helium did it again," Trump said of Epstein. "And I said, 'Out of here.'"

Giuffre, who died by termination successful April, had said that Epstein's convicted accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, recruited her erstwhile Giuffre was moving astatine the spa.

Trump connected Tuesday said of Guiffre, "I deliberation that was 1 of the radical here."

"He stole her."

"And by the way, she had nary complaints astir us, arsenic you know, nary whatsoever," Trump added.

Also connected Tuesday, a spokesperson for the House Committee connected Oversight and Government Reform said the sheet "will not see granting legislature immunity for" immoderate grounds from Maxwell.

That connection came soon aft Maxwell's lawyer told the committee successful a letter that she would invoke her Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination and garbage to attest nether a subpoena issued by the panel past week unless a acceptable of conditions were agreed upon successful advance.

Those conditions see a assistance of immunity from prosecution for her testimony, being fixed immoderate questions successful advance, being questioned extracurricular of prison, and appearing lone aft her bid to person an entreaty of her condemnation is resolved by the Supreme Court, her lawyer David Oscar Markus wrote.

Markus besides said, however, that if "Ms. Maxwell were to person clemency" from Trump, who could either pardon her oregon commute her 20-year situation term, "she would beryllium consenting — and anxious — to attest openly and honestly, successful public, earlier Congress successful Washington, D.C."

The Oversight spokesperson said, "The Oversight Committee volition respond to Ms. Maxwell's lawyer soon, but it volition not see granting legislature immunity for her testimony." 

Maxwell, 63, was convicted astatine proceedings of crimes related to procuring underage girls to beryllium sexually abused by Epstein.

Members of Congress and others are demanding much accusation astir Epstein and Maxwell aft backlash sparked by the Justice Department's refusal earlier successful July to merchandise investigative files successful Epstein's case, contempt anterior promises to bash so.

As the Justice Department "undertakes efforts to uncover and publically disclose further accusation related to your and Mr. Epstein's cases, it is imperative that Congress behaviour oversight of the national government's enforcement of enactment trafficking laws mostly and specifically its handling of the probe and prosecution of you and Mr. Epstein," Oversight Committee president Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., told Maxwell successful a missive past week.

"In particular, the Committee seeks your grounds to pass the information of imaginable legislative solutions to amended national efforts to combat enactment trafficking and betterment the usage of non-prosecution agreements and/or plea agreements successful sex-crime investigations," wrote Comer.

Maxwell spoke for hours implicit 2 consecutive days this period with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who sought that gathering aft saying helium was funny successful asking Maxwell what she knew astir imaginable different abusers of girls and women connected to Epstein.

The Justice Department granted constricted immunity to Maxwell for that interview.

Trump is suing media mogul Rupert Murdoch, Murdoch's News Corp, Dow Jones & Co., and 2 reporters implicit the Journal communicative that said Trump sent Epstein a "bawdy" missive successful 2003 to people Epstein's 50th birthday. News Corp owns Dow Jones, which publishes the Journal.

The president denies penning that letter.

On Monday, Trump's lawyers asked a justice to bid Murdoch to beryllium for a deposition successful the lawsuit wrong 15 days, citing the information that helium is 94 years aged and "has suffered from aggregate wellness issues passim his life, is believed to person suffered caller important wellness scares."

"These factors measurement heavy successful determining that Murdoch would beryllium unavailable for in-person grounds astatine trial," Trump's attorneys said successful their motion.

On Tuesday, Trump said, "I would person assumed that Rupert Murdoch controls [the Journal], but, you know, possibly does, possibly doesn't."

"They are talking to america astir doing something, but we'll spot what happens. Maybe they would similar america to driblet that, truthful we'll see," helium said. "They privation to settle."

CNBC has requested remark from Dow Jones astir Trump's claim.