President Donald Trump has a new explanation for why he ended his long friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The story now involves Epstein stealing away Mar-a-Lago spa employees in Palm Beach, Florida, an apparently unforgivable sin.

On July 29, aboard Air Force One, Trump was asked more about this employee stealing, and he flashed his true colors, instantly making the spiraling Epstein scandal measurably worse. Without a hint of empathy or compassion, the president said Epstein “stole” a teenage Mar-a-Lago spa worker named Virginia Giuffre.

Trump used that word: stole. As if Giuffre, who would become one of the most public of Epstein’s accusers, was a piece of property wrongly poached by the notorious sex trafficker.

She was 17 at the time she was lured away from Mar-a-Lago........

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