The President Donald Trump He assured that the financier Jeffrey Epstein, denounced by sex trafficking, “stole” to the victim Virginia Giuffreone of the main complainants in the case. The fact would have happened when she worked as an assistant at the Mar-A-Lago Club spa, owned by the Republican.
The president gave the statement aboard the Air Force One After his return from Scotland, the same day the socialite Ghislaine Maxwell -Exar of the financier- requested immunity to declare. The complainant committed suicide this year.
“He took people who worked for me. I said: ‘We don’t want our people to take.’ When he did it again, I expelled him from Mar-a-Lago, ”Trump said before the press. Although he initially avoided confirming whether Giuffre was among those employees, he ended up recognizing:” He stole it. “
Donald Trump said Epstein “stole” Virginia Giuffre
Giuffre’s family reacted with indignation to the president’s words. “It was shocking to listen to President Trump to mention our sister And say that I knew that Virginia had been ‘stolen’ by Mar-a-Lago “Sky and Amanda Roberts, and Danny and Lanette Wilson, brothers and brothers -in -law expressed in a statement.
“This makes us wonder if he knew more about Epstein and Maxwell’s criminal activities than he has admitted,” they added. Last week, the White House said the president had cut ties with his former friend because he considered him an “disgusting.”
Virginia Giuffre, who publicly accused Prince Andrés Already other powerful men If you have exploited sexually while you were a minorit was a central figure in the case against Epstein and Maxwell.
According to his statements, Maxwell discovered it in 2000 in the Mar-A-Lago spa and recruited it as a masseuse. This link ended up becoming, according to the complainant, a network of systematic sexual abuse to serve Epstein and his relatives.
The statement, who was sent to media like The Atlantic, recalled that Trump, two years after the episode, described Epstein as someone who “preferred younger women … there is no doubt about it.” “We and the public ask for answers; the survivors deserve this,” the relatives added.
Virginia Giuffre
Virginia Giuffre, who publicly accused Prince Andrés and other powerful men of having exploded it, was a central figure.
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The Giuffre family statement was known shortly after the Justice Department interviewed Ghislaine Maxwell in a Florida court. The woman, convicted in 2021 for sex trafficking and other crimes, celebrates a 20 -year penalty in Tallahassee.
According to his lawyers, Maxwell answered questions about “100 different people” and would be willing to declare before Congress if immunity is guaranteed and certain conditions are met.
Maxwell’s lawyers urged the US Supreme Court to review his conviction, claiming that he did not have a fair trial. They also say that a way in which she would testify “openly and honestly, in public,” is in case of a Trump pardon.
The president told reporters that this measure is in his right, but that they did not ask for it. Asked about it, a Trump government official said the president is not considering granting Maxwell for forgiveness.
For its part, the White House spokeswoman, Karoline LeavittHe explained that Trump only answered a question from a journalist and did not mention Giuffre on his own initiative. “The fact is that President Trump expelled Jeffrey Epstein from his club for being a stalker with his employees,” he said.
Epstein Case: The US Congress rejects the application for immunity that the businessman’s ex -partner demanded to declare
In the middle of the Jeffrey Epstein case scandal – That wraps the US president, Donald Trump – A United States Congress Committee on Tuesday rejected a Judicial immunity application presented by the ex -partner of the financial businessman, Ghislaine Maxwellwho was convicted – in New York, in 2021 – 20 years in prison for helping their ex -boyfriend to sexually abuse teenage girls, in addition to participating in the Sex trafficking network.
In detail, the Government Supervision and Reform Committee of the House of Representatives, led by Republicans, intended Maxwell to provide a Declaration on August 11 at the Tallahassee prison, Florida.
The scandal around the Epstein case adds episodes day by day. In the midst of the somewhat government of Trump – for the alleged appearance of the republican leader in the lists of those who visited the island of the late financial entrepreneur – Congress took a key decision in reference to the testimony of one of the most important witnesses of the case.
Source: Ambito