Virginia Giuffre, an alleged sufferer of Jeffrey Epstein, walks after the listening to within the felony case in opposition to Epstein, at Federal Court docket in New York, August 27, 2019.
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday stated that Jeffrey Epstein “stole” Virginia Giuffre from her job working within the spa of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago membership in Florida.
Trump instructed reporters that Epstein’s poaching of Giuffre within the early 2000s was certainly one of a minimum of two situations through which the infamous intercourse offender stole a employee from the Mar-a-Lago spa.
Giuffre, years later, went public with allegations that she had been sexually abused by Epstein as a teen and handed round to different males who additionally abused her.
Trump on Monday had stated he minimize ties together with his then-friend Epstein within the mid-2000s as a result of “he stole individuals who labored for me” after being warned in opposition to doing so.
Requested Tuesday aboard Air Pressure One if a few of these staff have been younger girls, Trump replied, “Properly, I do not need to say, however everybody is aware of the folks that have been taken.”
“Folks have been taken out of the spa, employed by” Epstein, Trump stated.
“I instructed him, I stated, ‘Pay attention, we do not need you taking our individuals, whether or not it was spa or no spa,'” stated Trump.
“And he was effective. After which not lengthy after that, he did it once more,” Trump stated of Epstein. “And I stated, ‘Out of right here.'”
Giuffre, who died by suicide in April, had stated that Epstein’s convicted confederate, Ghislaine Maxwell, recruited her as a teen when Giuffre was working on the spa.
Trump on Tuesday stated of Guiffre, “I believe that was one of many individuals right here.”
“He stole her.”
Additionally on Tuesday, a spokesperson for the Home Committee on Oversight and Authorities Reform stated the panel “is not going to think about granting congressional immunity for” any testimony from Maxwell.
That assertion got here shortly after Maxwell’s lawyer instructed the committee in a letter that she would invoke her Fifth Modification rights in opposition to self-incrimination and refuse to testify underneath a subpoena issued by the panel final week except a set of circumstances have been agreed upon upfront.
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell attend the Batman Ceaselessly/R. McDonald Occasion in New York Metropolis on June 13, 1995.
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These circumstances embody a grant of immunity from prosecution for her testimony, being given any questions upfront, being questioned exterior of jail, and showing solely after her bid to have an attraction of her conviction is resolved by the Supreme Court docket, her lawyer David Oscar Markus wrote.
Markus additionally stated, nonetheless, that if “Ms. Maxwell have been to obtain clemency” from Trump, who may both pardon her or commute her 20-year jail time period, “she could be keen — and keen — to testify overtly and actually, in public, earlier than Congress in Washington, D.C.”
The Oversight spokesperson stated, “The Oversight Committee will reply to Ms. Maxwell’s lawyer quickly, but it surely is not going to think about granting congressional immunity for her testimony.”
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he arrives at Glasgow Prestwick Airport on July 25, 2025 in Prestwick, Scotland.
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Maxwell, 63, was convicted at trial of crimes associated to procuring underage women to be sexually abused by Epstein.
Members of Congress and others are demanding extra details about Epstein and Maxwell after backlash sparked by the Justice Division’s refusal earlier in July to launch investigative recordsdata in Epstein’s case, regardless of prior guarantees to take action.
Because the Justice Division “undertakes efforts to uncover and publicly disclose extra data associated to your and Mr. Epstein’s instances, it’s crucial that Congress conduct oversight of the federal authorities’s enforcement of intercourse trafficking legal guidelines typically and particularly its dealing with of the investigation and prosecution of you and Mr. Epstein,” Oversight Committee chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., instructed Maxwell in a letter final week.
“Specifically, the Committee seeks your testimony to tell the consideration of potential legislative options to enhance federal efforts to fight intercourse trafficking and reform the usage of non-prosecution agreements and/or plea agreements in sex-crime investigations,” wrote Comer.
Maxwell spoke for hours over two consecutive days this month with Deputy Legal professional Normal Todd Blanche, who sought that assembly after saying he was involved in asking Maxwell what she knew about potential different abusers of women and girls linked to Epstein.
The Justice Division granted restricted immunity to Maxwell for that interview.
Trump’s Murdoch lawsuit strikes forward
Trump additionally stated Tuesday that defendants in his current $10 billion defamation lawsuit in opposition to the writer of The Wall Road Journal and others over an article about him and Epstein “need to settle” the case pending in Miami federal court docket.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (R) speaks to media mogul Rupert Murdoch as they stroll out of Trump Worldwide Golf Hyperlinks in Aberdeen, Scotland, June 25, 2016.
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Trump is suing media mogul Rupert Murdoch, Murdoch’s Information Corp, Dow Jones & Co., and two reporters over the Journal story that stated Trump despatched Epstein a “bawdy” letter in 2003 to mark Epstein’s fiftieth birthday. Information Corp owns Dow Jones, which publishes the Journal.
The president denies writing that letter.
On Monday, Trump’s attorneys requested a decide to order Murdoch to take a seat for a deposition within the case inside 15 days, citing the truth that he’s 94 years outdated and “has suffered from a number of well being points all through his life, is believed to have suffered current vital well being scares.”
“These components weigh closely in figuring out that Murdoch could be unavailable for in-person testimony at trial,” Trump’s attorneys stated of their movement.
On Tuesday, Trump stated, “I’d have assumed that Rupert Murdoch controls [the Journal], however, , possibly does, possibly would not.”
“They’re speaking to us about doing one thing, however we’ll see what occurs. Perhaps they want us to drop that, so we’ll see,” he stated. “They need to settle.”
CNBC has requested remark from Dow Jones about Trump’s declare.