It Took Trump Seven Years To Expel Epstein After Learning About ‘Stolen’ Staff

The president brags that he broke with the child sex trafficker after discovering that he was raiding his ‘help’ but leaves out how long that took.

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has taken to boasting that he severed ties with Jeffrey Epstein after learning that the child sex trafficker had “stolen” staff from his country club — but has failed to mention that it took him seven years to do so.

“He did something that was inappropriate. He hired help. And I said, ‘Don’t ever do that again.’ He stole people that worked for me. I said, ‘Don’t ever do that again,’” Trump told reporters in Scotland on July 28. “He did it again. And I threw him out of the place. Persona non grata.”

“I said, ‘If he’s taking anybody from Mar-a-Lago, he’s hiring or whatever he’s doing, I didn’t like it.’ And we threw him out. We said we don’t want him, you know, at the place,” Trump said at the White House three days later.

But while Trump implies that his response was rapid if not immediate, previous reporting lays out a timeline that says otherwise.

A 2021 book by journalists then with the Miami Herald, who were shown logs of Mar-a-Lago membership rolls, found that Epstein remained a member there until October 2007 — a full year after Epstein was indicted on a state prostitution charge and just after he had agreed to plead guilty in return for a shorter prison sentence and avoiding more severe federal charges entirely.