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Mon Jul 28, 2025, 01:15 PM Jul 28

So Trump WH lied when they claimed he ended his 10-year friendship with Epstein becase he was a 'creep' [View all]

...it turns out that his falling out with Epstein was about some personnel dispute, not anything to do with the impression Trump wanted to leave in answers to 2005 press inquiries of some moral issue with his sleazy lifestyle.

Acyn @Acyn
Trump: For years I wouldn't talk to Jeffrey Epstein. He did something that was inappropriate. He hired help and I said don't ever do that again. He stole people that worked for me.

“I wouldn’t talk. Because he did something that was inappropriate,” he continued. “He hired help and I said, ‘Don’t ever do that again.’ He stole people that worked for me.”

“I said, ‘Don’t ever do that again.’ And he did it again. And I threw him out of the place. Persona non grata. I threw him out and that was it.”


So it wasn't over the child sex abuse Trump witnessed and likely participated in.

He claims today it was just some tiff over personnel.

But, Epstein’s ban by Trump from Mar a lago was just months BEFORE he pleaded guilty in 2008 to state criminal charges in Florida, which included paying for sexual services from a 14-year-old girl.

In 2002, Trump told New York magazine, “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy.”

“He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”




“The fact is that the president kicked him out of his club for being a creep,” White House communications director Steven Cheung told The New York Times

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt also used the same line.

“It’s not news that Epstein was a member of the Mar-a-Lago club,” she told reporters, “because it’s the same club Donald Trump kicked Epstein out of for being a creep.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-gives-totally-different-answer-162924823.html

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