United States President Donald Trump flew on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet “many more times than previously has been reported”, according to an email from a New York prosecutor that forms part of a new batch of documents about Epstein released by the US justice department.
In an email dated 7 January 2020, the unidentified prosecutor wrote flight records showed Trump had flown on Epstein’s private jet eight times during the 1990s.
Among those were at least four flights on which Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell was also aboard. Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence for helping late financier Epstein sexually abuse underage girls.
In a social media post in 2024, Trump said he “was never on Epstein’s Plane, or at his ‘stupid’ Island”. There was no allegation in the prosecutor’s email that Trump had committed any crime.
The White House did not provide an immediate comment regarding the recent email disclosure.
Jeffrey Epstein, infamous for his 2008 conviction in Florida for procuring an underage person for prostitution, faced further charges of sex trafficking by the Justice Department in 2019.
On one flight described in the newly released records, 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 stated.
Trump knew Epstein socially in the 1990s and early 2000s. Trump has said their association ended in the mid-2000s and that he was never aware of the financier’s sexual abuse.
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