The mushrooming political scandal over the Jeffrey Epstein file is following President Donald Trump round like an ominous storm cloud on a wet day, darkish, heavy and inconceivable to outrun.
One of many newest bombshell developments within the ongoing drama? Trump now says his friendship with Epstein resulted in 2004 as a result of the disgraced financier and intercourse trafficker “stole” younger girls from the spa at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Seashore, Florida.
In Scotland, Trump first mentioned he kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago for stealing Trump’s staff.
“He employed assist. And I mentioned, ‘Don’t ever try this once more.’ He stole those who labored for me. I mentioned, ‘Don’t ever try this once more.’ He did it once more. And I threw him out of the place, persona non grata. I threw him out, and that was it,” Trump mentioned.
Then, on Air Power One, later as he was returning to the White Home, he surprisingly revealed that he knew the workers Epstein was poaching have been younger girls.
Right here’s how the surprising feedback unfolded.
A reporter requested, “Mr. President, Epstein has a sure repute, clearly. I’m simply curious, have been a number of the staff that have been taken from you, have been a few of them younger girls?”
“A few of them?” Trump replied.
“Had been a few of them younger girls?” the reporter pressed.
“Nicely, I don’t need to say, however everybody is aware of the those who have been taken, and it was the idea of taking those who work for me is dangerous, however that story’s been fairly nicely on the market, and the reply is sure, they have been,” the president answered.
He was then requested, “Mr. President, did a type of stolen, you understand, individuals embody Virginia Giuffre?”
“I don’t know. I believe she labored on the spa. I believe so. I believe that was one of many folks, yeah. He stole her. And, by the best way, she had no complaints about us, as you understand, none in anyway,” Trump continued.
Guiffre was simply 16 when Epstein and his affiliate Ghislaine Maxwell lured her away from Trump’s spa at Mar-a-Lago. She died by suicide in April, years after submitting civil and legal lawsuits towards Epstein and Maxwell and accusing Prince Andrew of sexual abuse.
That’s completely different from a earlier White Home assertion on why Trump and Epstein’s friendship ended.
“The actual fact is that the president kicked him out of his membership for being a creep,” it mentioned.
Social media went wild over the revelations, with hundreds of feedback on Trump’s admission.
“He’s cooked,” BoobeeYAGA wrote on X.
One other person posted,” So Trump didn’t have to journey to Epstein island as a result of he had his personal operation happening. Is sensible.”
And the hits preserve coming.
“Dang, he already performed his ‘Obama is responsible of treason’ card. How is he going to distract from this one? That’s not a rhetorical query, by the best way. I’m not suggesting he’s lastly caught. There can be one other distraction,” Tom Haflinger predicted.
The Bulwark characterised Trump’s admission this manner. “The factor that Donald Trump thinks is inappropriate that Jeffery Epstein did is that he stole the assistance?…Actually, mindbogglingly heinous stuff from the President of the USA in the present day.”
And Jeff Rasley maybe mentioned it greatest, “Not as a result of he was intercourse trafficking or a pedophile, Trump broke with Epstein as a result of he ‘stole those who labored for me.’”
However Trump has by no means admitted he knew Epstein and Maxwell have been intercourse trafficking younger women. He has denied understanding about Epstein’s legal enterprises.
The Epstein scandal swirling round Trump has continued to accentuate after the Justice Division earlier this month closed the case on Epstein. The transfer got here after Trump and lots of in his inside circle spent years stoking conspiracy theories round Epstein’s dying in jail, allegedly by suicide in 2019, and about his reputed “shopper record.”
Trump’s supporters went wild after the announcement, attacking Trump and his administration for what they noticed as a betrayal and the backtracking on the marketing campaign promise to launch the recordsdata.
The controversy has solely continued to worsen for Trump and has proven no indicators of going away regardless of the President’s repeated makes an attempt at distraction.
