President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Jeffrey Epstein “stole” Virginia Giuffre and other young women who worked at the spa in his Mar-a-Lago club.
“People were taken out of the spa, hired by him. In other words, gone,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One as he returned from Scotland to Washington, where he continues to face fallout from his administration’s handling of files related to Epstein.
“And other people would come and complain, ‘this guy is taking people from the spa.’ I didn’t know that,” Trump continued. “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 him taking people. And he was fine. And then not too long after that, he did it again and I said, ‘out of here.’”
Trump was then asked if one of those women was Giuffre, an Epstein accuser who died by suicide this past April at the age of 41.
Giuffre, ABC News previously reported, had accused Ghislaine Maxwell of recruiting her when she was 17 years old working as a locker-room attendant at Mar-a-Lago in 2000 and bringing her to Epstein’s home for a massage. Maxwell denies those allegations.
I guess there’s an easy way to clear all this up. Unless the one person who could do that happened to allegedly kill herself in a suicide that totally wasn’t suspicious at all, following some other bizarre and unexplained incidents.
Oh that did happen, so Virginia can’t tell us about her recollection of the situation, so I guess we’ll just have to rely the very trustworthy word of the only two surviving people we know were directly involved to let us know exactly how much Trump was aware of at the time. Great.