President tells reporters he cut off contact with Epstein because he was poaching employees from his club before amplifying that they were ‘young women’
  • Pavidus@lemmy.world
    8·
    5 months ago

    Let’s pretend for a second that this actually happened, and Trump was actually upset about it. Where’s the lawsuit? Trump makes habitual use of the legal system for every grievance he has in the world.

    • Drusas@fedia.io
      6·
      5 months ago

      I don’t firmly believe that he did or did not kill himself–though I lean towards he did not–but I take great offense to how every news organization reports suicide as fact when it’s quite questionable.

  • foggy@lemmy.world
    6·
    5 months ago

    You cannot posses a person so you cannot steal a person.

    Its called kidnapping. Human trafficking.

  • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world
    37·
    5 months ago

    “Epstein and I were certainly not friends! He stole one of my underage victims. . . Do you have any idea how much grooming it takes to persuade a child to fuck fat sweaty old men in a golf club bathroom? Without crying too much? Do you?! I did all that work, she belonged to me, he stole her. We fell out way before he put my name in his files.”

  • Prethoryn Overmind@lemmy.world
    15·
    5 months ago

    “And by the way she had no complaints about us, as you know.” This sounds entirely like there were complaints but also, SHE WAS FUCKING UNDER AGE TRUMP! Come on dude?! Like shut the fuck up. It isn’t about complaints towards you it is genuinely about a guy, you knew, that you won’t release files on doing shit with your business and you told him to “quit” what did you do to protect your actual employees and these young women.

    It is just like, how the fuck is Trump not under investigation is it just shady as hell. If you are a federal agent reading this I just don’t know you can’t be ashamed of your country.

  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
    26·
    5 months ago

    I also kept wondering who are all the staff that kept that pedo island going? From cooks to pilots, and I guess they came from trump and that makes sense. What I wanna know now is where are all those people now? This wasnt a one man operation

    • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      8·
      5 months ago

      Yeah, it’s (usually) not sex work, but I’m 100% sure Trump was staffing his spa with sexual appeal in mind.

      And if not he’d have no reason to even care that a teenager took a different job. No one gets upset about a teenager being poached because they were so good at doing whatever menial task you entrusted to them.

      • dmention7@midwest.social
        3·
        5 months ago

        Honestly I didn’t even think about that part. When I first heard the interview on the radio this morning, I imagined they were talking about experienced massage therapists or something. Nah, they were kids working their first job, not even out of HS.

        You’re 100% correct that under normal legit circumstances, not even their direct supervisor would give a shit about a 17 year old changing service industry jobs. The fact that Trump not only knew about this, but cared about it to this degree, is very fucking weird.

        • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          3·
          5 months ago

          The absolute nicest interpretation I have for this is that Trump knew what Epstein did and was upset that he’d recruit girls at his club. But that means he knew and didn’t care before that. And didn’t say anything after.

        • Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de
          2·
          5 months ago

          😮 in my country, the protection age ends at 16. But of course, consent of all involved individuals is always required.

          Under 16, the age gab is not allowed to be more than 3 years.

    • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      5 months ago

      Yeah, so what? It’s not like he is ever going to suffer any consequences for it…

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
    129·
    5 months ago

    As Jon Stewart said, the biggest crime trump thinks epstein did was poaching his people, not that they were traficked and raped.

    “I told him, I said, listen, we don’t want you taking our people, whether it was spa or not spa. I don’t want him taking people. And he was fine. And then, not too long after that, he did it again. And I said, out of here,” he said, describing Epstein as having “stolen” his spa workers.

    Asked point blank if one of them was Giuffre, who died aged 41 by suicide earlier this year, he replied: “I think she worked at the spa. I think so. I think that was one of the people.”

    “I don’t know. I think she worked at the spa. I think so. I think that was one of the people, yeah, he stole her,” Trump added. “And by the way, she had no complaints about us, as you know, none whatsoever.”