ANNALS OF TRUMPISTAN: Trump says Epstein ‘stole’ Virginia Giuffre from Mar-a-Lago staff role (Robert Markey, The Guardian, July 29, 2025)

Ipse dixit, you can't fix it, Mr. President.  From The Guardian:

Trump says Epstein ‘stole’ Virginia Giuffre from Mar-a-Lago staff role

President says pair fell out because Epstein poached staffers, including Epstein accuser who died in April

Robert Mackey

Tue 29 Jul 2025 17.46 EDT

Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday that Jeffrey Epstein, the late sex offender he socialized with for more than a decade, “stole” Virginia Giuffre and other young female staffers whom he hired away from the president’s Mar-a-Lago country club.

Speaking to reporters onboard Air Force One as he returned to Washington from Scotland, Trump was asked to elaborate on his earlier comments about falling out with Epstein because he took employees from his business. The president said on Monday that he had kicked Epstein out of his club “because he did something that was inappropriate” – specifically, that “he stole people that worked for me”.

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Senior White House aides have repeatedly suggested in recent weeks that Trump broke with Epstein in about 2004 and expelled him from the Mar-a-Lago club for inappropriate behavior of a sexual nature. In a statement last week, spokesperson Steven Cheung said Trump “kicked him out of his club for being a creep”.

The president’s account of the break being motivated by pique at having his employees poached by his friend cast the break in a different light.

On Tuesday, a reporter asked Trump: “The workers that were taken from you – were some of them young women?”