President Donald Trump on Monday said that he threw his long-time friend Jeffrey Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club and cut ties with him years ago because “he stole people who worked for me.”
Trump said Epstein poached at least one more employee from him after being warned not to do it again.
The president, who spoke in Scotland, provided no other details of the dispute with Epstein, who killed himself in a federal jail in New York weeks after being arrested on child sex trafficking charges in July 2019.
“That’s such old history, very easy to explain, but I don’t want to waste your time by explaining it,” Trump said, after a reporter asked him to put to rest questions about what led to the rift between the two men and Epstein’s exile from the president’s Palm Beach, Florida, club.
“But for years, I wouldn’t talk to Jeffrey Epstein. I wouldn’t talk because he did something that was inappropriate,” the president said.
