U.S. President Donald Trump gestures before boarding Air Force One as he returns to Washington, D.C., in Lossiemouth, Scotland, Britain, July 29, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
President Donald Trump made an eyebrow-raising statement Tuesday afternoon that Jeffrey Epstein “stole” young women from his Mar-a-Lago beach club spa.
Trump made the comments while speaking to the press on Tuesday on his way back from Scotland.
The first Epstein accuser to come forward publicly was Virginia Giuffre, a former Mar-a-Lago locker room attendant who was under 18. She said she was recruited by Ghislaine Maxwell, where she was told she could "train" as a massage therapist.
She ultimately became one of the many girls "passed around" to Epstein and his friends "like a platter of fruit," she told the BBC.
In answering questions aboard Air Force One, Trump described other staff members previously unknown, who he said were poached from Mar-a-Lago.
"Well, I don't want to say, but everyone knows the people that were taken, and it was the concept of taking people that work, for me, is bad, but that story has been pretty well out there, and the answer is yes, they were in the spa," Trump said according to TNND. "People that work in this five-star great spa, one of the best spas in the world, at Mar-a-Lago, and people were taken out of the spa hired by him."
"I didn't know that, 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," Trump continued. "I don't want to take your people. And he was fine. And then not too long after that, he did it again. And I said, out of here."
When asked whether one of the women was Giuffre, Trump replied, “I think so. I think that was one of the people.”
He said Epstein “stole her.”
“And by the way, she had no complaints about us whatsoever,” Trump bragged.