Ah, the previous “he stole my underage spa worker” protection — actually the stuff of presidential greatness. On Tuesday, President Trump launched the most recent chapter in his ever-morphing Epstein saga. The headline? Jeffrey Epstein was banished not for, , the entire child-sex-trafficking factor, however for the much more heinous crime of personnel poaching. Apparently, you possibly can site visitors minors, however you do NOT poach Mar-a-Lago’s “finest spa on the earth” expertise.
Trump’s remix goes like this: Epstein snatched a 16-year-old spa employee — Virginia Giuffre — proper out from beneath the hot-stone tables. Sure, that Virginia Giuffre — the one courtroom information present was groomed, trafficked, and serially abused by Epstein and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell from 2000 to 2002. The identical baby who, per sworn testimony, was personally recruited at Mar-a-Lago by Maxwell herself, then flown all over the world on Epstein’s jet so the duo might cross her round like a celebration favor. The woman who lastly escaped solely after she was shipped off to therapeutic massage college in Thailand in 2002.
“Stealing” Giuffre and “folks that work within the spa” was the ultimate straw. The president even tossed within the footnote that Giuffre “had no complaints about us,” which is a neat trick of self-exoneration wrapped in victim-diminishment.
However wait — a timeline compiled by investigative journalist Judd Legum reveals a number of evident inconsistencies:
Exhibit A: October 2002. New York Journal rolls out Trump gushing that Epstein is “a terrific man” who enjoys “lovely girls…on the youthful aspect.” By Trump’s shiny new timeline, this reward was revealed after Epstein’s alleged grand-theft-spa-teen heist.
Exhibit B: November 2004 telephone logs. Trump rings Epstein—twice — the identical month they bid in opposition to one another for a $41 million Palm Seashore mansion. Laborious to ghost somebody once you’re speed-dialing them to play Monopoly with actual property.
Exhibit C: July 2019. Trump says they hadn’t spoken “in 15 years,” which might place the final dialog in 2004 — yep, these exact same telephone logs. When is Trump going to sue math for mendacity?
Exhibit D: October 2007. In keeping with precise membership information, Epstein’s nonetheless waltzing by means of Mar-a-Lago prefer it’s a black-tie parole listening to. The Trump Group’s personal lawyer claimed the ban occurred that 12 months — due to Epstein’s 2006 felony prices, not as a result of Trump was apprehensive about him stealing underage ladies from his “nice spa.”
And now, in 2025, we get the spa-heist revisionism, sprinkled with an informal, “I believe she labored on the spa… yeah, he stole her.” It is a plot twist worthy of a telenovela, if telenovelas trafficked in victim-erasure and geopolitical impunity.
So take your choose, America. Door #1: Trump ditched Epstein in 2000 over worker theft. Door #2: Trump toasted Epstein as “terrific” in 2002. Door #3: Trump phoned him for mansions in 2004. Door #4: Trump banned him in 2007 solely after the feds filed prices. Door #5: The White Home says Epstein was 86’d for being “a creep,” no spa caper required. Door #6: Epstein was a unclean. low-down, no-good spa-employee poacher.
Because the conflicting excuses and explanations mount, so do the questions as to what actually occurred. Legum asks: “What occurred on the Mar-a-Lago spa, and what did Trump find out about it? What actions did Trump truly take after studying Epstein had ‘stolen’ underage ladies from his membership? Why has Trump provided a number of inconsistent accounts of his relationship with Epstein? What info would possibly Maxwell, who Trump might pardon, have about all of those subjects?”
Beforehand:
• ‘New discrepancies’ present in Epstein jail video
• Trump recordsdata $10 billion lawsuit in opposition to Wall Avenue Journal over alleged Epstein birthday card
• The prosecutor who helped a wealthy serial baby rapist escape justice is now a Trump Cupboard member
• TDS particulars Trump’s relationship with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell
• Trump fires federal prosecutor who headed Epstein-Maxwell investigation
• FBI deployed 1,000 brokers to go looking Epstein recordsdata for Trump mentions, whistleblower says
• Metadata implies FBI’s ‘uncooked’ Epstein jail footage was spliced
