On Trumps way back from his Scotland trip on board Air Force One, he was asked a question by a journalist. This is the transcript from her question and Trumps response. It is basically an admission that he was aware of the trafficking. This is the exact unedited audio transcript:
Mr. President,
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look Epstein has a certain reputation
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obviously. I'm just curious, were some
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of the workers that were taken from you,
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were some of them young women?
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Were some of them young women? [Trump] Well, I
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don't want to say, but uh everyone knows
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the people that were taken and uh it was
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the concept of taking people that work
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for me is bad. But uh that story has
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been pretty well out there and the
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answer is yes, they were. Yes, they were
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women.
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[Journalist] What do they do?
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[Trump] In the spa.
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[Journalist] In the spa?
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[Trump] Yeah. People that work in the spa. I
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have a great spa. One of the best spas
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in the world at Maraago. And people were
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taken out of the spa. Hired by him. In
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other words, gone. And uh other people
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would come and complain, "This guy is
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taking people from the spa." I didn't
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know that. And then when I heard about
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it, I told him, I said, "Listen, we
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don't want you taking our people." or
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whether it was spa or not spa, I don't
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want him taking people. And he was fine.
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And then not too long after that, he did
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it again and I said, "Out of here."
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[Journalist] Mr. President, Mr. President, did one of
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those stolen um you know, persons that
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include Virginia.
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[Trump] Uh I don't know. I think she worked at
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the spa.
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I think so. I think that was one of the
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people. Yeah. He he stole her. And by
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the way, she had no complaints about us
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as you know. None whatsoever.