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If he cared that much about it, he wouldn't have waited 25 years to mention it (he never used that excuse before today). Also note when he invented this excuse, he didn't mention Virginia Giuffre. He didn't mention any names then a reporter asked a question and specifically mentioned her name. His response:

His immediate response was "Uh, I don't know"? I would bet he had no idea who she was. The last sentence is the "tell". "She had no complaints abut us" - she has been mentioned all over the media lately as a spa attendant at Mar-a-Lago who Epstein hired away, and in her public statements about Epstein and others, she has said she observed no wrongdoing from Trump. Trump clearly read or heard about that and realized he could use it to deflect accusations against him. But she obviously had one complaint or "issue" with Mar-a-Lago - they weren't paying here nearly as much as Maxwell offered to work for Epstein.