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New Epstein data claims Trump flew his plane ‘much more often’ than reported
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New Epstein data claims Trump flew his plane ‘much more often’ than reported

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US President Donald Trump flew at sex offenders Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet “much more frequently than previously reported,” according to an email from a New York prosecutor that is part of a new set of documents about Epstein released by the U.S. Department of Justice.
In an email dated January 7, 2020, the unidentified accuser wrote of flight records showing that Trump had flown on Epstein’s private jet eight times in the 1990s.
This included at least four flights on which Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell was also on board. Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence for helping the late financier Epstein sexually abuse underage girls.
In a 2024 social media post, Trump said he was “never on Epstein’s plane, or on his ‘stupid’ island.” The prosecutor’s email did not allege that Trump committed a crime.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the email.

Newly released records

On one flight detailed in the newly released data, the only three passengers were Epstein, Trump and a 20-year-old woman whose name was redacted. “On two other flights, two of the passengers respectively were women who would be possible witnesses in a Maxwell case,” the document said.
Trump knew Epstein socially in the 1990s and early 2000s. Trump has said their partnership ended in the mid-2000s and that he was never aware of the financier’s sexual abuse.

Epstein was convicted in Florida in 2008 of soliciting a person under 18 for prostitution, and the Justice Department charged him with sex trafficking in 2019.

The Department of Justice posted a statement on [Federal Bureau of Investigation] just before the 2020 elections.”
“To be clear, the claims are baseless and false, and if they had even an ounce of credibility, they would certainly have been weaponized against President Trump by now,” the report said.
“Nevertheless, out of our commitment to the law and transparency, the DOJ is releasing these documents with the legally required protections for Epstein’s victims.”
The latest version of Epstein files contains approximately 30,000 pages of documents, with many redactions and dozens of video clips, including some claiming to have been recorded in a federal detention center. Epstein was found dead in a New York prison in 2019 and the FBI confirmed he committed suicide.

In another email, an unknown person wrote in 2021 that they had recently searched data the government obtained from former Trump aide Steve Bannon’s cell phone and found an “image of Trump and Ghislaine Maxwell.”

The government redacted parts of the message, indicating who sent and received it.

Another file in the government press release contained a grainy photo of Trump sitting next to Maxwell. It matches an image of the two at a fashion show in New York in 2000.

Unverified data forces release of Epstein files

The revelations include a number of other documents that point to Trump, though they provide little indication that the government considered them credible.
Among them was an image of a card purportedly from Epstein to Larry Nassar, a former gymnastics doctor convicted of sexually abusing girls under his care. A handwritten message on the card referred to Trump without mentioning him by name.
The Justice Department later labeled the map “fake” and said it will continue to release Epstein case documents as required by law.
The postmark on the envelope is from Virginia, not New York, where Epstein was imprisoned, and the return address does not include Epstein’s inmate number, which federal prisons typically require to be included in outgoing letters.

According to another document released Tuesday, the FBI requested a handwriting analysis of the card, although it was unclear whether it was conducted and whether its results were unclear. The Justice Department said in a statement that it was “investigating the validity of this alleged letter.”

The government also made public several reports of calls to an FBI tip line that referenced Trump, although it did not identify the callers or indicate whether investigators followed up on the calls or found them credible.
One caller claimed he had driven a limousine for Trump in 1995 and heard him in the back having a phone conversation in which he addressed someone as “Jeffrey” and at one point mentioned abusing a girl.
The government also released a video on Tuesday claiming to show Epstein kneeling in his prison cell, but a Reuters investigation found it appears to be a computer-generated clip that first appeared on social media in 2020, a year after his death.

It was submitted to the Justice Department by a person who said it claimed to show Epstein’s death, according to an email also released Tuesday.

Transparency law

However, last week’s releases included extensive redactions, which angered some Republicans and did little to defuse a scandal that threatened the party ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

Earlier this week, Trump downplayed the importance of the Epstein files. Speaking to reporters, he said the material was “just being used by him and his fellow Republicans to counter the enormous success.”

The new transparency law, passed overwhelmingly by Congress last month, mandated the disclosure of all Epstein files, despite Trump’s months-long efforts to keep them sealed.
Republican Rep. Thomas Massie, who helped spearhead the legislation requiring the release of the files, responded late Monday to Trump’s comments expressing disgust over the release of Epstein documents.
The Kentucky Republican wrote on
“In the meantime, [US attorney general Pam] Bondi is working diligently to redact, omit, and delete Epstein files that she is legally obligated to release under our bill.
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