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Dulcinea

(9,095 posts)
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 07:55 AM Jul 30

Trump says Epstein poached young women from Mar-a-Lago. That raises new questions about what he knew.

(CNN) President Donald Trump wants to move on from his administration’s fiasco over the Jeffrey Epstein files, but he keeps hampering that effort by opening his mouth.

The most recent instance has to do with precisely why the two men had a falling out about two decades ago.

Trump acknowledged on Tuesday that the employees who he said Monday that Epstein poached from him, triggering their breakup, were young women who worked in the spa at his Mar-a-Lago club.

“The answer is yes, they were,” he told reporters on Air Force One while traveling back from Scotland.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-says-epstein-poached-young-202735555.html

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Trump says Epstein poached young women from Mar-a-Lago. That raises new questions about what he knew. (Original Post) Dulcinea Jul 30 OP
Not surprising bucolic_frolic Jul 30 #1
The falling out wasn't over losing Virginia Giuffre gab13by13 Jul 30 #2
Epstein consulted Trump about a big real estate deal. Trump double crossed him and bought the property for himself Marcuse Jul 30 #13
They were also both bidding on a mansion gab13by13 Jul 30 #26
Krasnov should know that you can always just stop bidding if the price is too high. JustABozoOnThisBus Jul 30 #34
Yes, exactly PatSeg Jul 30 #21
It was at least a 2-step process. Igel Jul 30 #30
So the real problem here is that Epstein stole employees from Trump. tanyev Jul 30 #3
Yes, that is the question that occurred to me as well PatSeg Jul 30 #22
Yep, even if a spa needed a few employees to replenish towels and other low-level things, tanyev Jul 30 #24
I was thinking of some of the first jobs my daughter PatSeg Jul 30 #25
Yeah, I spent a few summers waiting tables at a family restaurant in a small town tanyev Jul 30 #33
As of now its illegal in Florida to hire someone under 18 creeksneakers2 Jul 30 #41
At first I assumed because of her age she would be doing things other than massages, tanyev Jul 30 #42
I don't think she was 18 creeksneakers2 Jul 30 #43
Agreed. She was not 18. tanyev Jul 30 #44
Cover up! creeksneakers2 Jul 30 #45
The question to be asked is no_hypocrisy Jul 30 #4
Knowing tRump these girls were probably more then employees robbob Jul 30 #6
I fear that they are not asking that question. OldBaldy1701E Jul 30 #8
Why did Trump have a underage masseuse working Emile Jul 30 #5
Trump would like us to stop asking these questions IronLionZion Jul 30 #19
It's a lie with a kernel NJCher Jul 30 #7
Is this timing correct? GusBob Jul 30 #9
It's the question du jour. Baitball Blogger Jul 30 #10
Definition of Trump, err I mean poach. twodogsbarking Jul 30 #11
In other words, Epstein stole some of "his" girls. Two pimps in competition. Martin68 Jul 30 #32
The reference "poach" infers the girls were, well, prey. Somewhat like admitting what you stated. twodogsbarking Jul 30 #36
I. O. W.s Trump was into sex trafficking too either as a partner with Epstein or running a separate business Botany Jul 30 #12
"poached from him" Happy Hoosier Jul 30 #14
My beef with the terminology is... llmart Jul 30 #16
I mean, the term is used.... Happy Hoosier Jul 30 #17
GOD DAMN YOU, yahoo. 16-year olds are NOT "women". They are MINORS. niyad Jul 30 #15
Clearly they must have been qualified and valued corporate assets with accelerated degrees in Physiotherapy. Marcuse Jul 30 #18
Young girls, not women IronLionZion Jul 30 #20
Either means dump was poaching from Jeff or they were swapping, which is probably more the likely Clouds Passing Jul 30 #23
He was part of it, lets get real Hornedfrog2000 Jul 30 #28
Pimps Clouds Passing Jul 31 #47
So pedo trump groomed kids? Hornedfrog2000 Jul 30 #27
Killer cover of the current The Week magazine, August 1st. RobertDevereaux Jul 30 #29
LOVE this! calimary Jul 30 #40
I think Trump is making a mistake emphasizing this aspect of the story. It suggests he had a beef with Epstein, which Martin68 Jul 30 #31
it is virtually no secret (or 'news') that Donald Trump knew his buddy stopdiggin Jul 30 #35
Isn't thst what pimps say? .....nt Figarosmom Jul 30 #37
Shut the fuck up, Donny! red dog 1 Jul 30 #38
I don't know how he does it, but he keeps getting ickier and ickier by the day. calimary Jul 30 #39
"poached" pazzyanne Jul 31 #46

bucolic_frolic

(52,336 posts)
1. Not surprising
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 08:01 AM
Jul 30

for a CEO to pay attention to every last detail, if only superficially. But the take away imho is he knew everything, and the fringes of the Epstein enterprise could have many more damaging elements.

gab13by13

(29,739 posts)
2. The falling out wasn't over losing Virginia Giuffre
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 08:07 AM
Jul 30

Krasnov probably offered her up to Epstein.

Krasnov's falling out with Epstein was over a real estate transaction, was over money.

Trump and Epstein were best friends is the bottom line.

Marcuse

(8,673 posts)
13. Epstein consulted Trump about a big real estate deal. Trump double crossed him and bought the property for himself
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 09:35 AM
Jul 30

Last edited Wed Jul 30, 2025, 09:46 PM - Edit history (1)

Trump soon resold it to a Russian oligarch for a huuuuge profit in laundered rubles. https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/why-did-a-russian-pay-95m-to-buy-trumps-palm-beach-mansion/

gab13by13

(29,739 posts)
26. They were also both bidding on a mansion
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 11:24 AM
Jul 30

Krasnov was pissed that Epstein was bidding which drove up the price and cost Krasnov millions of dollars.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(24,329 posts)
34. Krasnov should know that you can always just stop bidding if the price is too high.
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 03:13 PM
Jul 30

You don't NEED to bid, if you are of normal sound mind

PatSeg

(50,930 posts)
21. Yes, exactly
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 10:11 AM
Jul 30

He should have just stuck to that story. His new version just raises more unsettling questions.

Igel

(37,099 posts)
30. It was at least a 2-step process.
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 02:10 PM
Jul 30

It's said that after the real estate deal (which Trump won, to Epstein's disgust ... While Epstein bid up the property, to Trump's revulsion) they had their real rupture.

But it's also said that before that Trump banned Epstein from Mar-A-Lago because Epstein was, and I quote, "a creep." However, away from MAL they still interacted until the real estate clash.

Nuance.

tanyev

(47,752 posts)
3. So the real problem here is that Epstein stole employees from Trump.
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 08:27 AM
Jul 30

Employees, who by virtue of their young age, couldn’t have worked at Mar-a-Lago very long and could presumably be easily replaced. Aren’t there long lines of people wanting to work at an awesome place like MAL? (sarcasm)

He’s got no anger that Epstein was recruiting minors for sex trafficking?

And oh, by the way, why in the world did Trump hire girls under the age of 18 to work in the spa at MAL??? If what you’re looking for is a legit massage to loosen up the muscles, someone older/larger/trained and certified is what a premier resort would hire. The type of premier resort Trump pretends he runs.

PatSeg

(50,930 posts)
22. Yes, that is the question that occurred to me as well
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 10:13 AM
Jul 30

Why was Mar-a-Lago hiring such young girls to work in its spa in the first place? Was that even legal?

tanyev

(47,752 posts)
24. Yep, even if a spa needed a few employees to replenish towels and other low-level things,
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 10:51 AM
Jul 30

you still don’t want underage girls running around where wealthy men accustomed to having anything they want, anytime they want are walking around wearing only a towel.

If the customers are pervs, they’ll quickly come up with ideas that are a) illegal b) harmful to your staff and c) puts the spa in a lot of legal liability. If the customers are not pervs, I think it would make them very uncomfortable to have underage girls working there.

PatSeg

(50,930 posts)
25. I was thinking of some of the first jobs my daughter
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 11:22 AM
Jul 30

held as a teenager - grocery store bagger, concession stand at a movie theater, and Sizzler. I can't imagine her working at a spa at a high end club and I can't imagine what kind of club would hire someone that young. Really creepy.

tanyev

(47,752 posts)
33. Yeah, I spent a few summers waiting tables at a family restaurant in a small town
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 02:35 PM
Jul 30

before I was old enough to drink. Had to grab one of the older waitresses to deliver drinks anytime anyone ordered a beer. Weird and suspicious that a so-called high end club would hire girls that young to work in the spa.

creeksneakers2

(7,804 posts)
41. As of now its illegal in Florida to hire someone under 18
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 06:08 PM
Jul 30

as a massage therapist. Not sure what the law was in 2,000 but I'll try again tomorrow to find out.

https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2021/0480.041

480.041 Massage therapists; qualifications; licensure; endorsement.—
(1) Any person is qualified for licensure as a massage therapist under this act who:
(a) Is at least 18 years of age or has received a high school diploma or high school equivalency diploma;

tanyev

(47,752 posts)
42. At first I assumed because of her age she would be doing things other than massages,
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 06:23 PM
Jul 30

but then I saw this eye-popping quote from “a source at Mar-a-Lago” in a story from 2007:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143503895#post7

Meanwhile, the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach last night confirmed a Web site report that Epstein has been banned there. “He would use the spa to try to procure girls. But one of them, a masseuse about 18 years old, he tried to get her to do things,” a source told us. “Her father found out about it and went absolutely ape-[bleep]. Epstein’s not allowed back.” Epstein denies he is banned from Mar-a-Lago and says, in fact, he was recently invited to an event there.

https://pagesix.com/2007/10/15/sex-case-victims-lining-up/


Basically the same exact story Trump just peddled, but using the word masseuse. Also using the very careful phrase “about 18 years old”, which sound a lot more legal than “underage”. We now know that Trump frequently called media outlets himself to get his version of a story out there. Very good odds this “source” was Trump himself.

creeksneakers2

(7,804 posts)
43. I don't think she was 18
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 06:45 PM
Jul 30

They are reporting the events happened in 2,000. Virginia's Wikipedia page gives her birth day as August 9, 1983. That would make here no younger than 17.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Giuffre

tanyev

(47,752 posts)
44. Agreed. She was not 18.
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 06:58 PM
Jul 30

But whoever called that quote in to Page Six, really, really wanted to create the impression that it was an 18 year old.

no_hypocrisy

(53,008 posts)
4. The question to be asked is
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 08:28 AM
Jul 30

why would TSF care about an underaged girl (who didn't have work papers) who worked at the spa going to work for another job?

I could understand some resentment if it had been a manager of Marl-A-Lago who oversaw operations of the property and the business. And even that could be allowed under Employment Law, save for a contract and/or a contract for non-competition.

But a girl doing a brainless job of replacing towels in a spa?

If you're going to lie, make it believable.

robbob

(3,720 posts)
6. Knowing tRump these girls were probably more then employees
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 08:57 AM
Jul 30

That sick fuck was probably grooming them for his own perversions. We know, like his best buddy Jeff, that he also likes them “on the young side”. Sickening. The whole world is asking how the American people ever let this disgusting malignant clown ascend to the highest office in the land. Twice.

OldBaldy1701E

(8,991 posts)
8. I fear that they are not asking that question.
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 09:21 AM
Jul 30

They are asking, "What in the holy fuck is wrong with Americans!"

Because they know that this turd did not just walk into the White House and claim power.

NJCher

(41,364 posts)
7. It's a lie with a kernel
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 09:11 AM
Jul 30

Of truth. I believe Virgina Giuffre worked there at one time.

One of the case experts on msnbc immediately said it’s a lie.

You know how on a criminal interrogation, the criminal keeps coming up with lame explanations for what they did? That’s what this is.

GusBob

(7,972 posts)
9. Is this timing correct?
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 09:24 AM
Jul 30

Cant trust anything you read these days

Yr 2000: Virginia is recruited away from MAL
Yr 2002: Trump says JE is a great guy who likes his girls young
Yr 2004: No longer are the perverts BFFs

Baitball Blogger

(50,877 posts)
10. It's the question du jour.
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 09:26 AM
Jul 30

If Trump knew Jeffrey Epstein was sex trafficking underage women, did that make him an accomplice to the crime?

twodogsbarking

(15,659 posts)
11. Definition of Trump, err I mean poach.
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 09:26 AM
Jul 30

poach
/pōCH/
verb

illegally hunt or catch (game or fish) on land that is not one's own or in contravention of official protection.

twodogsbarking

(15,659 posts)
36. The reference "poach" infers the girls were, well, prey. Somewhat like admitting what you stated.
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 03:49 PM
Jul 30

Botany

(75,273 posts)
12. I. O. W.s Trump was into sex trafficking too either as a partner with Epstein or running a separate business
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 09:32 AM
Jul 30

And why do I think this or these businesses were international criminal operations and had ties
to Putin?

From handing out towels to going to work for Epstein is a stretch. Epstein’s businesses were:
1) Sex Trafficking
2) Blackmail and kompromat (see Putin)
3) Money laundering ….. just one of Epstein’s bank accounts had 1.1 billion in transfers
including deposits from Trump.


Happy Hoosier

(9,076 posts)
14. "poached from him"
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 09:40 AM
Jul 30

I know the term is commonly used, but it's especially gross here. You are poaching when you take game on someone elses hunting grounds.

It's probably more accurate here than otherwise. But I HATE the language we use that suggest employess belong to their companies.

llmart

(16,802 posts)
16. My beef with the terminology is...
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 09:52 AM
Jul 30

it shows how little he values women/girls, treating them like objects or animals to be "poached". A legitimate employer would saying something to the affect of "she worked for me and he lured her away with a better offer if she would come work for him."

Happy Hoosier

(9,076 posts)
17. I mean, the term is used....
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 09:54 AM
Jul 30

I am in a competitive industry and the term IS used when one company goes after another company's valuable employees. But yeah, it suggests property and ownership. And when applied to young women, it's especially disgusting.

Marcuse

(8,673 posts)
18. Clearly they must have been qualified and valued corporate assets with accelerated degrees in Physiotherapy.
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 09:56 AM
Jul 30

Clouds Passing

(5,726 posts)
23. Either means dump was poaching from Jeff or they were swapping, which is probably more the likely
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 10:23 AM
Jul 30
 

Hornedfrog2000

(866 posts)
27. So pedo trump groomed kids?
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 11:53 AM
Jul 30

Is that what im hearing? He groomed the kids before he sent them on the pedo plane?

The pedophile literally helped epstein with sex trafficking.

RobertDevereaux

(2,013 posts)
29. Killer cover of the current The Week magazine, August 1st.
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 12:25 PM
Jul 30
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Martin68

(26,446 posts)
31. I think Trump is making a mistake emphasizing this aspect of the story. It suggests he had a beef with Epstein, which
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 02:11 PM
Jul 30

doesn't necessarily help his cause.

stopdiggin

(14,391 posts)
35. it is virtually no secret (or 'news') that Donald Trump knew his buddy
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 03:23 PM
Jul 30

had a predilection for 'younger' girls. He has been on record (for a long time, and more or less openly) saying so.

calimary

(87,798 posts)
39. I don't know how he does it, but he keeps getting ickier and ickier by the day.
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 05:18 PM
Jul 30

Hell, by the HOUR.

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