A former manager at the Atlantic City Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino has confirmed in a CNN interview that he has seen President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, a now deceased sex offender, together at the casino property with underage girls.
Former Employee Says Epstein and Trump Were “Best Friends”
The interview, which was held with Erin Burnett, a CNN news anchor, on Wednesday, July 16, details Jack O’Donnell’s experience during his four years at the now-demolished Atlantic City Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino, where he worked in the 1980s.
O’Donnell specifically said that the pair were once seen with underage girls on the gambling floors. The girls were not of the legal gambling age to be on-site at the casino gaming floor, with the United States having strict restrictions on underage gambling, even if an individual is attended by an elder.
O’Donnell described one instant in the 1980s that he remembers when Epstein and Trump, whom he described as “best friends,” brought three women to the gaming floor who were under the age of 21, he said.
O’Donnell did not immediately realize what was happening until a gambling regulator showed up at the property the next day and said that one of the girls in question was the “No. 3-ranked tennis player in the world.” She was 19 at the time, he told CNN.
O’Donnell gave his boss a call and told him that the regulators had settled for issuing a formal warning and had cautioned Trump and the property not to allow underage individuals on the gaming floor or face substantial penalties.
The former employee also claims that he has told the future President that he had to break off his relationship with Epstein or at least not publicize it, because of the look of things.
“Stone-Cold Liar and a Loser”
The White House has already addressed the rumors, though, with Steven Cheung responding to PEOPLE in a statement:
“Jack O’Donnell is a stone-cold loser who is a liar and a fraud. This is a completely fabricated story from his warped imagination as he suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his pea-sized brain.”
Trump has not been satisfied with how the Epstein case has turned out, with an image of him and Epstein posing for a photo-op, visibly happy, circulating among critics and loyalists, and the
The president is facing substantial pressure to release the so-called Epstein files – a list of powerful people who supposedly benefited from Epstein’s sex service that had sex-trafficked children as young as 14. Trump has denied any wrongdoing.