Trump insists he ‘kicked Epstein the hell out of Mar-a-Lago’ after speech is derailed by protesters in Ohio

President Donald Trump insisted on Wednesday he kicked sex pest Jeffrey Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago after his speech stumping for Republicans in Ohio was derailed by a protester.

The commander-in-chief had been speaking in support of US Senate candidate Jon Husted and gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy at Ohio University when a man in the audience yelled: ‘Trump went on Epstein’s plane.’

The protester was met with a chorus of boos as the president’s supporters started chanting ‘USA, USA’ while he was escorted out of the building.

When the crowd then calmed down, Trump decided to address the man’s claims.

‘I threw Jeffrey Epstein out of my club like 20 years ago,’ he said. ‘That was a great thing I did.’

‘I threw Epstein the hell out of Mar-a-Lago,’ he continued, claiming that he was ‘totally exonerated’ by the documents that his administration released about the investigation into the disgraced financier.

‘You know who he came up with? All of the friends of the Democrats,’ Trump then declared. ‘That’s what they do. They’re sick, weak people.’

Trump has previously told the Daily Mail how he had a falling out with Epstein because the financer poached many of his Mar-a-Lago staff. 

‘Everyone knows the people that were taken,’ he told reporters on Air Force One on his way back from a five-day trip to Scotland in July. ‘People were taken out of the spa hired by him.’

Trump went on to say: ‘I didn’t know that. And then when I heard about it, I told him, I said, Listen, we don’t want you taking our people, whether it was spa or not spa. I don’t want to taking people. And he was fine. And then not too long after that, he did it again. And I said, out of here.’

But at least one woman has claimed that Trump was involved in Epstein’s sexual exploits.

The unidentified woman, whom the FBI spoke to four times between August and October 2019, had contacted federal authorities shortly after Epstein’s arrest in 2019 and claimed that a man named ‘Jeff’ had raped her in Hilton Head, South Carolina in the early 1980s when she was around 13.

She told agents she didn’t know who he was at the time, but decades later concluded he was Epstein when a friend texted her his photo from a news story.

In a follow-up interview a month later, the woman added a host of other allegations, including that Epstein had schemed to have her mother sent to prison, beaten her, and arranged sexual encounters with other men.

She then claimed that when she was between 13 and 15, Epstein took her to either New York or New Jersey, where ‘in a very tall building with huge rooms’ he introduced her to Trump. 

The woman alleged Epstein and Trump referred to girls using the terms ‘fresh meat’ and ‘untainted.’ 

Other people were present, she said, though she could not recall who. Trump asked them to leave, then said ‘something to the effect of, “Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be,”‘ the interview notes state.

At that point, she said Trump unzipped his pants and forced her head ‘down to his penis.’

The woman claimed she ‘bit the s*** out of it,’ after which he pulled her hair and punched her on the side of her head.

‘Get this little b***h the hell out of here,’ the woman claimed Trump said, at which point others reentered the room. The FBI files contain no information about how the incident ended or how the woman left.

It remains unclear what became of the FBI’s investigation into the woman’s claims. She was also deemed ineligible for the Epstein Victims’ Compensation Program, which paid out more than 130 settlements. 

There is no indication Epstein ever lived in South Carolina, and no evidence he and Trump knew each other in 1983, at least four years before the president has acknowledged becoming acquainted with the financier. 

Trump has consistently denied any wrongdoing in connection with Epstein.

The Department of Justice noted in January that some of the documents released about the federal investigation into Epstein’s crimes contain ‘untrue and sensationalist claims against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election.’

 But as the president now tries to rally support for Republican candidates ahead of next week’s midterm elections, he is facing renewed scrutiny amid the war in Iran even as he calls on supporters to vote as if he were on the ticket himself.

Driven by persistent voter anxiety over the economy, high inflation and low presidential approval ratings, Republicans face substantial political challenges, leaving Democrats well-positioned to potentially capture vital gains or reclaim congressional majorities.

A new Reuters/Ipsos poll finished on October 26 found that Trump’s approval rating is at just 32 percent, with 66 percent of voters disapproving.

Democrats also led Republicans 53 to 44 percent among likely voters on the generic congressional ballot, after undecided voters’ preferences were accounted for.

A majority of respondents claimed living costs were a big issue for them.