The president, speaking in
Scotland, provided no other details of the dispute with Epstein, who killed himself in a federal jail in New York weeks after being arrested on child sex trafficking charges in July 2019.
“That’s such old history, very easy to explain, but I don’t want to waste your time by explaining it,” Trump said, after a reporter asked him to put to rest questions about what led to the rift between the two men and Epstein’s exile from the president’s Palm Beach,
Florida, club.
“But for years, I wouldn’t talk to Jeffrey Epstein. I wouldn’t talk because he did something that was inappropriate,” the president said.
“He hired help, and I said, ‘Don’t ever do that again.’ He stole people that work for me. I said, ‘Don’t ever do that again.’ He did it again,” Trump said.
Epstein then became “persona non grata,” Trump said.
“I threw him out, and that was it. I’m glad I did, if you want to know the truth,” he said.