Donald Trump wishes he knew how to quit Jeffrey Epstein.
The president has repeatedly professed a desire to move on from questions about whether he’s included in Department of Justice files outlining the investigation of Epstein’s sex trafficking charges. Yet Trump has provided seemingly conflicting information about his relationship with Epstein — helping sustain a scandal that has hounded him more than any other, even though his friendship with Epstein ended more than two decades ago and Epstein died in a Manhattan jail cell six years ago.
The White House has long insisted Trump and Epstein’s friendship ended after the president kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago at some point for being a “creep,” although previous reports suggested their friendship ended years earlier, when Trump outbid Epstein for a piece of property in Palm Beach, Florida.
Trump, when speaking with reporters who traveled with him to the United Kingdom on Monday and Tuesday, gave yet another explanation for their break.
“He stole people that worked for me,” Trump told reporters on Monday during a meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. “I said, ‘Don’t ever do that again.’ And he did it again. And I threw him out of the place. Persona non grata. I threw him out and that was it.”
