Despite the attempts by Donald Trump and the White House to distort any relationship between the president and the sexual criminal Jeffrey Epstein, and trying to open other news focuses to divert attention, the controversy does not dissipate and, on the contrary, grows every time the President of the United States talks about the issue.
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This happened on Tuesday when aboard Air Force One, returning to the United States after his official and marketing tour for his golf clubs in Scotland, when in a conversation with journalists, Trump acknowledged that his falling out with Epstein was due to him “taking” several workers from his resort in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.
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Among these was Virginia Giuffre, who worked at the Mar-a-Lago spa and later became one of the main accusers against Epstein for sexual trafficking. Giuffre committed suicide on April 25 of this year.
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President Donald Trump acknowledged that Jeffrey Epstein, convicted of sexual crimes and who died by suicide in prison in 2019, “took” Virginia Giuffre from his club at Mar-a-Lago.
During the media exchange, Trump recounted the dispute that would have ended his friendship with Epstein. According to him, the sex offender “took people who worked for me” and then asked him not to do it anymore. “Get the hell out,” Donald Trump would have told Jeffrey Epstein, according to the president’s account, and then banned Epstein from entering his club in Palm Beach.
When asked if the people Epstein “stole” were young club employees, Trump responded that many worked in the spa area. He then added: "I told him, ‘Listen, we don’t want you taking our people, whether from the spa or elsewhere’... And he agreed. And not long after, he did it again“.
When specifically asked if one of those employees was Virginia Giuffre, the president replied, "I think so. I think she was one of those people. He stole her, and by the way, she had no complaints about us, as you know, none at all." According to the New York Times, Giuffre was 16 years old at the time.
Giuffre was one of the main voices in the accusations against Epstein and his partner Ghislaine Maxwell. For years, she claimed to have met Maxwell while working as a teenager at Mar-a-Lago and was later sexually exploited by the network led by Epstein, which, among other things, led her to meet Prince Andrew of the United Kingdom. Giuffre sued the younger brother of King Charles III and reached an out-of-court settlement.
Criticism and pressure on the White House
According to the Washington Post, the rift between Trump and Epstein, after a friendship of at least 15 years, occurred in 2004 due to a dispute over a property in Palm Beach.
A few days ago, the White House communications director, Steven Cheung, had said that Trump “kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago for being a creep.”
Trump’s admission regarding Giuffre could open up new lines of investigation into the closeness between the president and Epstein, just at a time when the White House is seeking to move past the issue and focus on its electoral agenda.
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