President Donald Trump was peppered with more questions about his relationship with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein while in Scotland on Monday, and he served up a new detail about why he fell out with the billionaire.
After speaking with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Trump with hit with questions from the media. Among them were more about the Epstein crisis that he's been unable to shake for more than a week.
Trump was famously a close friend with Epstein, but the pair fell out several years before his death in 2019.
Trump revealed that one of the major things that caused their split was that Epstein poached workers from Mar-a-Lago.
When asked about it, Trump called it "old history."
"Very easy to explain," said Trump. "But I don't want to waste your time by explaining it. But for years, I wouldn't talk to Jeffrey Epstein. I wouldn't talk because 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 said, don't ever do that again. He did it again. And I threw him out of the place, persona non grata. I threw him out, and that was it.
"I'm glad I did, if you want to know the truth. And by the way, I never went to the island," referencing Epstein's Caribbean island where much of his abuse of underage girls took place.
Trump claimed that he's clearly not in the Epstein documents that many are demanding be released, or his "enemies" would have publicized them during the 2024 election. The Wall Street Journal last week reported that Trump was told by Attorney General Pam Bondi that he was.
Epstein's brother, Mark, said last week, "Jeffrey said he stopped hanging out with Trump when he realized Trump was a crook. [Steve] Bannon has that on tape."
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