President Donald Trump on Tuesday charged that Jeffrey Epstein ‘stole’ Virginia Giuffre and several other young female workers at Mar-a-Lago’s spa, leading to their falling out.
‘She worked at the spa,’ Trump noted of Giuffre. And he added of Epstein: ‘He stole her.’
Trump told Daily Mail on Monday that he fell out with Epstein because the financer poached many of his Mar-a-Lago staff. But he’s now offered more details about what happened between the two men.
‘Everyone knows the people that were taken,’ he told reporters on Air Force One on his way back from a five-day trip to Scotland. ‘People were taken out of the spa hired by him.’
Trump went on to say: ‘I didn’t know that. And then when I heard about it, 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 to taking people. And he was fine. And then not too long after that, he did it again. And I said, out of here.’
Giuffre said she was recruited by Ghislaine Maxwell to Epstein’s sex ring in 2000, when she was 16 years old and working as a locker room attendant at the spa at Mar-a-Lago.
Before her death earlier this year, Giuffre was one of the most prominent and vocal accusers of Epstein and Maxwell.
Trump noted Giuffre had nothing bad to say about her time working for his Palm Beach Club.
‘She had no complaints about us, as you know, none whatsoever,’ he pointed out.
Trump banned Epstein from his Mar-a-Lago Club in 2004 but, before that time, both Epstein and Maxwell were photographed partying at the Palm Beach social club including with Trump’s then girlfriend Melania Trump.
The president has offered a variety of reasons for his disassociation with Epstein, who died in a New York prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
He previously said he cut off contact with Epstein because he was a ‘creep.’
Other reports say the two men fell out over an oceanfront Palm Beach property that was being sold out of bankruptcy that each man wanted.
Giuffre, who claimed she was passed around as a teenager to rich and powerful predators, died in April by suicide, according to a statement by the family.
But conspiracy theories continue to swirl around both her and Epstein’s deaths.
Trump’s MAGA loyalists have questioned if the deaths were suicide or murder in order to keep them silenced.
Additionally, the MAGA grew have long believed there is a list of rich and powerful people for whom Epstein is alleged to have trafficked young girls and it’s fueled their feverish calls for the Department of Justice to release files around the case.
The lack of new information has been a source of frustration for both them and the president, who cannot escape questions on the matter.
Questions about Epstein and queries about his relationship with the notorious financer followed Trump from the United States to his trip to Scotland.
The queries come as Maxwell met with Justice Department officials last week to discuss the case.
She is also scheduled to testify before Congress on August 11th but her lawyer asked for immunity in exchange for her testimony.
Lawmakers denied the request, however.
Maxwell is serving 20 years in prison for her involvement in Epstein’s sordid crimes. She was convicted in 2021 on five counts related to sex trafficking and conspiracy.
