Trump on Tuesday went on to say that Epstein "stole" young women who worked at the spa at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. "People were taken out of the spa, hired by him. In other words, gone," Trump told reporters on Air Force One.

A Wall Street Journal analysis of thousands of podcast transcripts shows the conservative conversation on Epstein has swelled in recent weeks.

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Jeffrey Epstein “took” young women who were working for him at the Mar-a-Lago spa.Reporters asked Trump for details about his falling out with Epstein on Air Force One following the President’s comments the previous day that he ended his years-long friendship with the convicted sex offender after “he stole people that worked for me.