US President Donald Trump has acknowledged sex offender Jeffrey Epstein “stole” young women from the spa at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, including American-Australian victim Virginia Giuffre, who took her own life this year.
The president, who has been under sustained pressure to release more files from the Epstein investigation and detail his own knowledge of his former friend’s activities, revealed he knew Epstein was poaching young women from Mar-a-Lago and gave him a warning.
President Donald Trump boards Air Force One in Scotland. On board, he made revealing remarks about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.Credit: Getty Images
After telling reporters in Scotland that he threw Epstein out of the club in the 2000s because the financier “stole people” who worked for him, Trump was asked on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST) whether the people in question were young women.
“I don’t want to say, but everyone knows the people that were taken,” he said initially. “The concept of taking people that work for me is bad. But that story’s been pretty well out there – and the answer is yes, they were [young women].”
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