President Donald Trump provided, Tuesday, July 29, a new version of his break with Jeffrey Epstein, saying that their dispute in the early 2000s had focused on employees of his Mar-A-Lago spa, including Virginia Giuffre, the young woman at the heart of the scandal involving Prince Andrew.
The White House so far assured Donald Trump had hunted the businessman from his Mar-A-Lago club in Florida about twenty years ago, after being very close, to have “Included as a twisted”. The American media, for their part, mentioned a rivalry on the acquisition of real estate property in Florida.
But, speaking to journalists on the Air Force presidential plane which brought him back from Scotland on Tuesday, Donald Trump developed a significantly different version of this break, already exposed Monday during a meeting with the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
“He hired people who worked for me and I told him” don’t do that “and he did it again, so I told him” no longer set foot here “”he said on Tuesday, adding that they were spa employees. Asked if these employees were young women, Donald Trump implicitly confirmed it.
One of them was Virginia Giuffre, one of the main victims of the sexual trafficking of minors which Jeffrey Epstein was accused, he recognized in response to a question. “I think she was working at the spa. I think she was one of those people. Yes, he took it ”a dit Donald Trump.
Virginia Giuffre, who committed suicide in April at the age of 41, accused Prince Andrew, a younger brother of the current king of England, Charles III, of having sexually assaulted when she was a minor. After denominating, the prince had concluded an amicable agreement with her in 2022.
Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer poses his conditions
In addition, Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer, ex-partner and accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein, who is serving a sentence of twenty years in prison for sex trafficking, said that she was considering responding to a parliamentary committee wishing to audition it on August 11 but set a series of conditions.
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In a letter to the elected representative of the House of Representatives, James Comer, on the initiative of this approach, his lawyer, David Markus, requires criminal immunity for his client.
« Mme Maxwell cannot run the risk of exposing themselves more criminally in a politically loaded context without official immunity ”he writes, moreover claiming that a possible hearing will be outside his prison in Florida and that the questions be communicated to him in advance.
In addition, the lawyer requests that hearing will be held after the Supreme Court has decided to take or not the appeal of Ghislaine Maxwell to obtain the cancellation of the proceedings that led to his conviction, probably not for several months.
The death of Jeffrey Epstein, found hanged in his cell in New York on August 10, 2019 before his trial for sexual crimes, fueled countless conspiracy theories that he was murdered to prevent embarrassing revelations on leading personalities.
Donald Trump, who for months has promised his basis of shattering revelations on this file, underwent a return of flame, including in his own camp, since his government announced in early July that he had discovered any new element which would justify the publication of additional documents.
The Ministry of Justice and the FBI, the federal police, concluded that there was no evidence of the existence of a secret list of « clients » by Jeffrey Epstein and confirmed his suicide.
