Trump Says Epstein ‘Stole’ Accuser Virginia Giuffre From Mar-a-Lago

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Trump’s story of Epstein continues to change

Yesterday, on Air Force One, returning from his trip to Scotland, President Donald Trump admitted that the child’s sex jeffrey Epstein “stolen” the accuser Virginia Giuffre of his job in Mar-A-Lago. “People were out of the spa, hired by Epstein,” said Trump. “I told him that we don’t want you to take our people, whether it is a spa or not. He did it again, I say, from here. ” When asked if one of the people was Giuffre, Trump replied: “I think yes. He stole it. “

That Trump deliberately blurs the waters, to engage in poor orientation, to panic or simply incapable of keeping his own right story is not clear. But the admission that Epstein “stole” gruffe at the golf club spa, the Trump Girouts even deeper in apparent evidence that he knew what Epstein was doing, and remained friends with him nevertheless.

Trump said on Monday that he fell with Epstein because “he hired the help” and “he stole people who worked for me,” said Giuffre. Earlier Tuesday, he tried to claim information reporting on his own statement that Epstein stole employees was “false news”, before recognizing that Epstein “stole” Giuffre.

The Giuffre and recruitment calendar of Mar-A-Lago, as well as Trump’s continuing friendship with Epstein, shows that Trump did not quickly say to Epstein, “out of here”.

Giuffre, deceased by suicide in April, accused the accomplice of Epstein Ghislaine Maxwell, who was sentenced in 2021 for having plotted with Epstein to recruit, prepare and abuse adolescent girls, to have recruited her from Mar-A-LAGO in 2000. Which was settled in 2017. A court has not sealed files in the case in August 2019, suicide the next day. The files produced by Mar-A-Lago in the affirmed case that Giuffre was a summer worker there in 2000.

In 2002, two years after Epstein “stole” Giuffre, Trump sadly declared New York magazine “I have known Jeff for 15 years. Guy try ”. He described it as “a lot of fun being. The following year, according to a recent report by the Wall Street Journal, Trump made Epstein a birthday letter, his text framed by a drawing of a naked woman, who said, in part, “happy birthday – and maybe another wonderful secret.” Trump continued the newspaper and its owners News Corp and Rupert Murdoch, saying that history is defamatory and requires $ 10 billion in damages. Trump is now asking the court an accelerated deposition of the 94 -year -old media magnate, saying that he would be unlikely to the trial because of his age and his health.

All these developments are certain to keep Epstein’s story in the news in the predictable future.

The Trump administration wants to burn the planet, poison your air and your water

Yesterday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced an proposed regulation repealing the “conclusion of endangerment”, the under-tension of all the regulations on climate change according to the conclusion that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases jeopardize human health and the environment. Environmental groups plan to challenge the action before the courts, because climatologists consider this decision as a “shot” which would invalidate all government efforts to fight climate change.

The killing shooting is in addition to other administration actions, in particular the exemption from 15 coal power plants from regulation restricting mercury emissions and other pollutants, and chemical factories for regulations of other dangerous chemicals. It was part of a wider wave of exemptions for the companies that obtained them simply by sending an e-mail to the EPA, the New York Times reported yesterday.

And as part of the “political recommendations of Trump AI to” inaugurate a new golden age of human development “”, wired reports, the administration plans to loosen the permit in terms of authorization permit of the Clean Water Auth to manage the data control data centers for AI.

Pam Bondi tries to undermine a federal judge, once again, and obtains his

The Attorney General Pam Bondi filed a fault complaint against James Boasberg, the chief judge of the American district court of the Columbia district, who presides over a judicial challenge to the disappearance by the Trump administration of prisoners in Cecot prison in Salvador. Bondi says Boasberg made “inappropriate public comments on President Trump and his administration.” Legal researcher Steve Vladeck calls the “ridiculous” complaint and, at the end of a long post, explaining why, offers advice to the chief judge of the Supreme Court John Roberts to protect the judiciary.

Meanwhile, the Senate Republicans confirmed Emil Bove in the third circuit, 50-49, last night, waving his role in the abolition of the corruption case against the mayor of New York, Eric Adams, dismissed the prosecutors of January 6 and the complaints of denunciation according to which he told the lawyers of the Doj to empty the commands of the Federal Court.

The great beautiful deception

The republicans of the Chamber were sent home for summer recess with marching orders from the National Committee of the Republican Congress: sell the very unpopular Medicaid cuts in the “Great Magnificent Bill” as “a overhaul that will strengthen the program” in order to “repel the Democrat in the way disassembly”, reports Politico. The Republicans’ campaign committee also asked members to tell voters that law, which gives massive tax relief to billionaires, “holds responsible elites”.

Taxpayers oppose the invoice for Trump’s profits and luxury

Trump spent $ 10 million from taxpayers on his recent trip to Scotland, where he met European leaders about trade and Gaza, but also organized a ribbon cup ceremony for his new international Golf Links Aberdeen Trump and played a lot of golf. “The president was accompanied by his sons, Eric and Don Jr., who took the lead in the real estate of their fathers, the licenses and the growing cryptocurrency empire while he occupies the White House,” reports Rolling Stone.

Meanwhile, the costs of modernizing two Boeing 747 and the Qatari government’s gift plane to use it as Air Force One (and, in the case of the Qatari gift, after leaving its duties) raised billions of dollars.

Within a Christian nationalist complex in Tennessee

Phil Williams of News Channel 5 in Nashville, deepened in the Christian nationalist utopia that far-right activists build 90 miles from the city center. New Founding, LLC has investments by the technological billionaire Marc Andresen and links with Vice-President JD Vance, the Claremont Institute and the far-right Podcaster Tucker Carlson. The group rejects democracy, wants a “national divorce” and anticipates a “collapse of the system” so that it can restore “order” with a “Franco Protestant”. Its donors are also members of the Society for American Civic Renewal, the secret Christian nationalist organization, only men that Josh Kovensky of TPM reported last year.

The manufacture of a DOGE destroyer

Bloomberg Businessweek came out with a complete and horrible profile of Luke Farritor in Doge, which was on the ground floor of the destruction of the American agency for international development at the start of Trump’s second term. The representatives of the career government considered Farritor, 23, who abandoned the college to become a Peter Thiel scholarship holder, who is not qualified for his work. DOGE nevertheless hired him, and “helped to assess, reduce or dismantle at least nine departments and agencies after USAID – staff management and management and budget offices; the departments of education, energy, work and health and human services; National Science Foundation; The Federal Office of Survey and the Financial Consumer Office on Financial Protection, ”reports the magazine.

The Trump administration destroys our health care system

Public Citizen has published an alarming report: “Trump’s dangerous health cabale threatens patients, providers and programs they count on.”

American support for the War of Israel against the Gaza Falls

Only 32% of Americans support the military campaign of Israel against Gaza, found Gallup in a new survey. Among the Americans aged 18 to 34, this number is only 9%. The survey was carried out before images of Gazans suffering from malnutrition and dying of famine no longer became widespread in the media.

In an act of civil disobedience, more than two dozen rabbis were arrested outside the office of the majority of the John Thune Senate yesterday as they prayed for food aid for Gazans.

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