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President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he ended his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein because the disgraced financier “stole” young women working at his Mar-a-Lago spa too many times — including a 17-year-old Virginia Giuffre.

Speaking aboard Air Force One while returning from his five-day combination golf holiday and tariff summit in Scotland, Trump was asked about comments he’d made over the weekend suggesting that he’d banned the pedophile power-player from his Palm Beach club for hiring away employees.

He confirmed that Epstein “took people that work for me” and did so again despite being admonished not to poach Mar-a-Lago workers by Trump.

“He took people that work for me, and I told him, don’t do it any more. And he did it. I said, stay the hell out of here,” he said.

Pressed further on whether the workers poached by Epstein included Giuffre, then a Mar-a-Lago pool locker-room attendant whose groundskeeper dad got her a job there, Trump confirmed she was among the poachings.

“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 him taking people. And he was fine. And then, not too long after that, he did it again. And I said, out of here,” he said, describing Epstein as having “stolen” his spa workers.

Asked point blank if one of them was Giuffre, who died aged 41 by suicide earlier this year, he replied: “I think she worked at the spa. I think so. I think that was one of the people.”

“I don’t know. I think she worked at the spa. I think so. I think that was one of the people, yeah, he stole her,” Trump added. “And by the way, she had no complaints about us, as you know, none whatsoever.”

Giuffre met Epstein’s accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, at Mar-a-Lago in 2000, she told the BBC, and she offered her an interview to train as a massage therapist. Giuffre was ultimately recruited and groomed by Maxwell and raped by Epstein on numerous occasions after being ostensibly hired as a “masseuse” by the pedophile.

The president’s new claim about the reasons why he ended a years-long friendship with Epstein contradicts previous statements made by him over the years concerning why he cut off contact with the notorious sex offender, who was arrested in March 2019 on federal sex trafficking charges and died by suicide in a Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial.

He previously said he cut off contact with Epstein because he was a “creep,” citing a 2009 conviction for soliciting underage prostitutes. Trump and people close to him have routinely cited the end of his friendship with Epstein when attempting to distance the president from the disgraced sex trafficker.

Trump says he ended his friendship with Epstein over the sex trafficker hiring away Virginia Giuffre (center, with Prince Andrew) from his Mar-a-Lago club ( US Department of Justice )

The last few weeks of Trump’s presidency have been consumed by scandal over his administration’s handling of longstanding calls from his supporters to release files associated with the cases of Epstein and Maxwell, who is currently serving a two-decade sentence in a Florida prison for sex trafficking charges.

Trump has repeatedly denied any connection to Epstein’s infamous lifestyle, having ended their friendship before the disturbing allegations about the financier emerged in 2006, and has sued The Wall Street Journal and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, over an article that reported he sent a “bawdy” birthday card message to Epstein for his 50th birthday.

Trump called the report false and defamatory.

Asked about the matter of the Epstein files on Monday, during a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, Trump went on an extended rant during which he accused Democrats of having fabricated the whole issue for political gain.

He called the bipartisan clamor for the documents “a hoax that’s been built up way beyond proportion” and accused his predecessor of having tampered with the infamous case files.

“Those files were run by the worst scum on earth. They were run by Comey, they were run by Garland, they were run by Biden, and all of the people that actually ran the government, including the auto pen. Those files were run for four years by those people. If they had anything, I assume they would have released it,” he said.

He also said that he turned down an invitation to Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious island, characterizing the decision as “one of my very good moments.”

“I never had the privilege of going to his island, and I did turn it down, but a lot of people in Palm Beach were invited to his island,” he said. “I turned it down. I didn’t want to go to his island.”

MagicBingo on July 29th, 2025 at 18:22 UTC »

FYI, The Spa was managed by Ivanka.

kweathergirl on July 29th, 2025 at 18:22 UTC »

Holy shit.

> Asked point-blank if one of them was Giuffre, who died by suicide earlier this year, he replied: “I think she worked at the spa. I think so. I think that was one of the people.” “Yeah, he stole her,” he said.

Edit: Insane he even admits to knowing her. Let alone her being one Trump REMEMBERS getting “stolen”.

TintedApostle on July 29th, 2025 at 18:19 UTC »

So Trump was upset because Epstein stole his underaged girl.