'None of this smells right': ​Trump's 'fishy' Epstein victim comment sets off alarms

A Democrat lawmaker shamed President Donald Trump over remarks about one of his former employees who was abused by Jeffrey Epstein — and he said the comments revealed that he knows more about the convicted sex abuser than he has admitted.

Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) appeared Wednesday morning on "CNN News Central," where host Kate Bolduan asked him about Trump's "evolving explanation" for his falling out with the disgraced financier. On Tuesday, Trump claimed that Epstein "stole" then-teenage Mar-a-Lago employee Virginia Giuffre from him .

"I think it's pretty disgusting," Gomez said. "Number one, nobody owns an employee and absolute no one owns a young woman, so if he's saying that a known, you know, somebody who had relationships with young women, he knew that he liked young women, that he stole her, then he knows more than he's [letting] on."

Giuffre, who was among the most prominent Epstein survivors, died by suicide in April. She has said she met Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, who some think is angling for a Trump pardon for sex trafficking, while working for Trump at the Mar-a-Lago spa as a teen.

"I think that's something that is absolutely disgusting," Gomez said, "and I think that's why the American people want to know his real relationship, somebody who denied having a relationship, then it wasn't that close, but then he's sending them notes and doodles."

The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump had written a birthday message to Epstein in 2003 that included a drawing of a nude woman, but the president denies the report and has sued the newspaper and its owner Rupert Murdoch for $10 billion.

"That's kind of the stuff that I think why the American people kind of say that none of this smells right," Gomez said. "Everything is just fishy, and I think that's why people want to know what was his real relationship with Jeffrey Epstein."

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