Donald Trump has revealed why his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein ended and has made some new claims about Virginia Giuffre.
The Jeffrey Epstein case has been plunged back into the spotlight again in recent weeks following the Trump administration's apparent U-turn on its intentions to release all the FBI files related the case.
Specifically, it's a rumored 'client list' that has been causing uproar, after the FBI earlier this month said no such list existed, despite apparent comments made by Trump and his Attorney General Pam Bondi suggesting otherwise.
Trump was asked abroad Air Force One while returning back to the US following a five-day trip to Scotland about why his friendship with Epstein concluded.
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"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," the POTUS told reporters.
Trump confirmed one of the workers was 17-year-old Giuffre, who accused Epstein of sexual abuse.
She accused Epstein of pressuring her into having sex with powerful men.
"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 added.
Asked whether Giuffre was one of them, the president continued: "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.
"And by the way, she had no complaints about us, as you know, none whatsoever."
Giuffre died aged 41 by suicide earlier this year.
She claimed that Ghislaine Maxwell spotted her working as a spa attendant at Mar-a-Lago in 2000, when she was a teenager, and hired her as Epstein’s masseuse, which led to sexual abuse.
Maxwell, who has denied Giuffre’s allegations, is serving a 20-year-prison sentence in a Florida federal prison for conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse underage girls.
Maxwell, Epstein’s imprisoned former girlfriend, was recently interviewed inside a Florida courthouse by the Justice Department’s No 2 official, though officials have not publicly disclosed what she said.
Her lawyers said on Tuesday that she is willing to answer more questions from the US congress if she is granted immunity from future prosecution for her testimony.
Maxwell’s lawyers have urged the Supreme Court to review her conviction, saying she dd not receive a fair trial.
Topics: Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, US News
Callum Jones