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Donald Trump and the then girlfriend (and future woman), former model Melania Knauss, with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Mar-A-Lago club, Palm Beach, Florida, February 12, 2000
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he ended his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein because he had “stolen” his private club employees in Florida, including one of the best known victims of the sex criminal.
After for decades, Donald Trump decided to get away from Jeffrey Epstein Because the sex criminal “took people” who worked for the US president.
According to Trump to journalists on Tuesday, women hired by themselves were “SPA RETIREDS – In other words, disappeared“.
The US president added that he then warned Epstein of his dissatisfaction. “I said, listen, We don’t want to take our people“Trump says that“ when that happened again ”, banned Epstein from Mar-a-lag.
Questioned if Virginia Giufone of Epstein’s best -known sexual trafficking accusators who was recently one of the employees taken, Trump, after hesitation, confirmed: “He stole her“.
The White House Communication Director, Steven Cheunghe recently said that Epstein was expelled “for being a pervert”.
In 2019, in a New York arrest cell while awaiting trial on accusations of sexual trafficking.
The American millionaire faced in 2008 criminal accusations related to the sexual abuse of minors na Floridabut reached a controversial secret agreement with the prosecutor who allowed him to declare himself guilty of requesting prostitution and Fulfill only 13 months in prison.
Confirmation by the FBI and the Justice Department, earlier this month, that There was no evidence of the existence of a “customer list” Blacked by Epstein, and that the death of the pedophile resulted from suicide, led to a crisis among members of Donald Trump’s Maga Movement.
Under its political base to disclose more information about the Epstein case, TRump denied knowledge or involvement in Epstein’s crimes and said that ended friendship years ago.
With their supporters and republican congressmen dissatisfied with what they consider to be lack of transparency on the caseTrump recently instructed the Attorney General Pam Bondi to request the public disclosure of the secret jury of the process.
A federal judge denied the request and a second judge has not yet commented.
Recently released a Letter with “obscene” content that Trump will have sent Epstein when they both had a friendship.
According to the newspaper, it was Ghislaine Maxwellformer Epstein’s parcege, who collected letters from Trump and other Epstein partners to include them in an album as a gift.
Trump, News Corp, a group that includes the newspaper, and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, for publicizing the alleged letter to Epstein.
NewsCorp’s reference newspaper stated that it will “vigorously”Against the US President, maintaining complete confidence in the rigor and accuracy of the published information.
Subsequently, the WSJ published that Trump was informed in May by DOJ officials who Your name appears “several times” In the case files against Jeffrey Epstein.
According to WSJ, one of the sources with knowledge of the documents said that these “include hundreds of other names“.
Ghislaine Maxwell requires forgiveness to witness
Former Jeffrey Epstein’s parceger, Ghislaine Maxwell, demanded immunity or forgiveness in exchange for witnessing to Congresswhich asked him to clarify aspects of the case that pursues the US President.
Maxwell’s defense team, which fulfills a 20 -year sentence arrest in Florida for sex trafficking, responded with a Condition List to the request made last week by the chairman of the Supervision Committee of the Chamber of Representatives, James Comerwho summoned her to testify on 11 August to provide new information about the case.
As the main request of the defense, the lawyer David Markus required to be granted immunity And that the comparison would be held in Washington and not, as requested by the Commission, at the Federal Prison in Tallahassee, Florida, where it fulfills its sentence.
“If Mrs. Maxwell received mercy, he would be arranged and eager to witness openly and honestly in public before Congress in Washington, and welcomes the opportunity to share the truth“, Says the letter shared by the jurist.
As a second condition, Maxwell’s lawyer today requested that Congress provide the questions in advance Putting to your client so that you could prepare “significantly” and prepare documents to corroborate your answers.
Finally, he asked the hearing to be held after the Supreme Court considered the revocation of the conviction, arguing that Epstein made an agreement in 2007 in the southern district of Florida, in which the government “agrees not to present any criminal accusation against any accomplice potential“.
“She deserves compensation. We are open to working with the Commission to find a following way that respects their constitutional rights and allows them to help the American people and the commission in this important supervision mission, ”the defense concluded.
On Monday, Maxwell’s lawyer presented new argument written in support of his client’s appeal to the Supreme Court, seeking to reject the accusations that led in 2022 to their conviction to 20 years in prison for sex trafficking.
The defense specifically criticizes the Justice Department for opposing this appeal when trying to “Create a distraction with a lurid recitation and irrelevant from Jeffrey Epstein’s actions. This case is what the government promised, not what Epstein did, ”emphasized Markus.
On July 14, the Justice Department was vehemently opposed to this appeal, but since then changed tone compared to Maxwell -And last week, the Assistant Attorney General Todd Blanche Tallahassee moved in the flower to interrogate it for a day and a half.