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Ex-Trump Casino President Tells CNN He Reprimanded Trump for Showing Up With ‘Best Friend’ Epstein and 19-Year-Old Girl

Charlie Nash 4-4 minutes 7/17/2025

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Jack O’Donnell, the former president of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, told CNN on Wednesday that he once reprimanded President Donald Trump in the 80s for bringing a 19-year-old into the casino with Jeffrey Epstein in the early hours of the morning.

“He frequently came down to Atlantic City, the two of them, to attend special events,” O’Donnell told CNN host Erin Burnett. “In my mind, it was his best friend, you know, from really the time I was there for four years.”

After playing a 2019 clip of Trump claiming he knew Epstein “like everybody in Palm Beach knew him” and that he was “not a fan of his,” Burnett remarked, “That doesn’t really fit with what you’re saying.”

“No, Erin, it doesn’t,” replied O’Donnell:

And you know, one incident that I think kind of proves their closeness and how much they hung out together– one time, a Monday morning, I came in and the commission was waiting, the inspectors were waiting in my office, and Donald and Jeffrey had come into the casino in the wee hours of Sunday morning, 1:00, 1:30 in the morning. You know, two buddies, they had three women with them, and the commission was waiting for me because they had determined that the women that they brought down were underaged to be in the casino, and when I asked them how they knew that, by the way, one of them was the number three ranked tennis player in the world, okay, and this guy happened to be a tennis fan and he said, “Jack, I know she’s 19 years old.”

He added, “To get on a helicopter with a friend and three other people and fly down to Atlantic City, I mean, you can connect those dots. They were pretty good buddies.”

O’Donnell said that while the commission decided to give Trump “a break” and not fine him for bringing a 19-year-old into the casino, they warned that the next time it would be different.

“They made me call him and I had to, believe it or not, read him the Riot Act about this action because they gave him a break,” said O’Donnell. “I had to call him and say, ‘Look, they’ve given you a break this time, but if this happens again, the fine is gonna be substantial and it’s gonna be on your head. And oh, by the way, it’s not gonna look good, you and this guy Epstein, coming down here with these young women.”

He concluded, “And I did tell him in that conversation, ‘I don’t think you should be hanging out with this guy, just so you know, and you certainly shouldn’t be doing that in Atlantic City.'”

Trump lashed out at his own supporters for trying to get to the bottom of “the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax” on Wednesday after conservatives criticized the Trump administration’s failure to release documents related to the late sex offender.

“Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this ‘bullshit,’ hook, line, and sinker,” complained Trump. “They haven’t learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years.”

Trump went on to disown his “weakling” supporters, declaring, “I don’t want their support anymore!”

According to a new YouGov poll this month, 67% of Americans – including 59% of Trump voters – believe the Trump administration is “covering up evidence relating to the Epstein case.”

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