Trump Shuts Down Reporter’s Epstein Query: ‘I Don’t Understand Your Question’ 

President Donald Trump shut down a reporter who asked about his claim that Jeffrey Epstein “stole” young female employees from his Mar-a-Lago resort.

This week, Trump stunned reporters on Air Force One when he said he believed Epstein’s victimization of Virginia Giuffre began when Epstein supposedly poached her from the resort where she worked at the spa. Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell subsequently sexually trafficked the teenager. Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for child sex trafficking. Epstein died via suicide in a jail cell in 2019, according to authorities.

The president said Epstein “stole” other employees from him.

I think she worked at the spa. I think so. I think that was one of the people,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday. “He stole her. And, by the way, she had no complaints about us, as you know, none whatsoever.”

The president cited this as the reason he had a falling out with Epstein, with whom he was friends in the 1990s and early 2000s.

On Friday, Trump took questions from reporters before leaving Washington for the weekend. One reporter asked about Epstein. The latter half of the question was obscured by the sound of Marine One idling nearby.

The reporter said, “Seven years from the time that you learned that people were being stolen from Mar-a-Lago, from the time that you [inaudible] Jeffrey Epstein–”

The president interrupted and shut down the reporter.

“Yeah, I don’t, I don’t understand your question,” Trump told him before moving on to the next reporter.

Questions about Epstein have dogged Trump since last month when his Department of Justice declined to release the department’s Epstein files, which many of the president’s supporters suspect show wrongdoing by powerful people.

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