{"id":82470,"date":"2025-07-28T14:53:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T18:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=82470"},"modified":"2025-07-28T14:57:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T18:57:33","slug":"donald-trump-says-he-turned-down-epstein-island-invite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/donald-trump-says-he-turned-down-epstein-island-invite\/82470\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump says he turned down Epstein island invite"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"text-token-text-primary w-full focus:outline-none scroll-mt-[calc(var(--header-height)+min(200px,max(70px,20svh)))]\" dir=\"auto\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-46\" data-scroll-anchor=\"true\" data-turn=\"assistant\">\n<div class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto pb-10 [--thread-content-margin:--spacing(4)] @[37rem]:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(6)] @[72rem]:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(16)] px-(--thread-content-margin)\">\n<div class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:32rem] @[34rem]:[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @[64rem]:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\">\n<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal [.text-message+&]:mt-5\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"7e011e61-0093-4ba4-8f55-1aaa024aa4b9\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-4o\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[3px]\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert w-full break-words dark\">\n<p data-start=\"96\" data-end=\"266\">Former U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday that he never visited Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s private island and had declined an invitation to go there.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"268\" data-end=\"434\">\u201cI never had the privilege of going to his island, and I did turn it down,\u201d Trump said during a visit to Scotland. \u201cIn one of my very good moments, I turned it down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"529\" data-end=\"831\">Jeffrey Epstein was a wealthy man who was accused of sex trafficking and abusing young girls. He owned a private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and reports say many famous people from politics, business, and entertainment visited there. Epstein died in jail in 2019 while waiting for trial.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"436\" data-end=\"812\">His statement is part of a broader effort to distance himself from Epstein, the wealthy financier who died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial for sex trafficking. Epstein\u2019s private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands is widely known as a place where underage abuse allegedly took place, and reports have linked numerous high-profile individuals to the location.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"814\" data-end=\"983\">Trump and Epstein were known to have socialised in the 1990s and early 2000s, but Trump now says their relationship soured when Epstein tried to hire away his staff.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"985\" data-end=\"1165\">\u201cHe hired help. And I said, \u2018Don\u2019t ever do that again,\u2019\u201d Trump explained. \u201cHe stole people that work for me. He did it again. And I threw him out of the place, persona non grata.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"1167\" data-end=\"1353\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Trump\u2019s comments come amid continued public interest in the Epstein case files and questions about who had contact with Epstein during his years of alleged abuse and trafficking.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday that he never visited Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s private island and had declined\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":82479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[168,30742,30970],"class_list":["post-82470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-epstein","tag-epstein-island"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}