President Donald Trump within the Oval Workplace of the White Home on Dec.15, 2025 in Washington, D.C.
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The Justice Division launched a brand new batch of information Tuesday associated to convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein which include a whole bunch of references to President Trump.
Trump has not been accused of wrongdoing in connection to Epstein although he had a well-documented friendship with the disgraced financier within the Nineteen Eighties, ’90s, and 2000s. This newest tranche offers extra particulars on Trump’s relationship with Epstein, together with documentation of Trump flying on Epstein’s personal jet within the Nineties. Epstein’s relationship with highly effective politicians and businessmen – and specifically, to what diploma Trump might have been conscious of Epstein’s crimes – has been a central query because the DOJ has continued to launch the information.
Congress required the Justice Division to make all information accessible by final Friday. The division has taken a piecemeal strategy to releasing the information, that are anticipated to include a whole bunch of 1000’s of pages.
In a Tuesday-morning social media put up, the division stated that the newest batch comprises almost 30,000 pages, including that it consists of “unfaithful or sensationalist claims” about Trump. When requested for touch upon the most recent information, the White Home referred NPR to the Justice Division assertion.
The newest set of information features a 2020 electronic mail from an unidentified federal prosecutor saying that “Donald Trump traveled on Epstein’s personal jet many extra occasions than beforehand has been reported (or that we have been conscious).”
The prosecutor stated Trump was listed as a passenger on a minimum of eight flights between 1993 and 1996, together with 4 on which Ghislaine Maxwell – Epstein’s co-conspirator and herself a convicted intercourse offender – was additionally a passenger. The prosecutor additionally wrote that one flight included solely Trump, Epstein, and a 20-year-old whose title was redacted.
Flight logs included within the newest information present that Trump’s flights have been primarily home, between New Jersey, Palm Seashore, and Washington, D.C.
President Trump has but to reply on to the newest doc dump, however on Monday advised reporters that he thinks the Epstein information are a distraction, and that they unfairly implicate harmless folks.
“What this complete factor is with Epstein is a manner of attempting to deflect from the super success that the Republican Get together has,” Trump stated. “Lots of people are very offended that footage are being launched of different folks that basically had nothing to do with Epstein, however they’re in an image with him as a result of he was at a celebration. And also you spoil a repute of someone.”
The information additionally embody a 2019 letter supposedly despatched by Epstein to convicted intercourse offender Larry Nassar — the previous U.S. gymnastics workforce physician.
The letter, which says Epstein despatched it from a correctional facility in Manhattan, says that “our president shares our love of younger, nubile ladies.” A stamp on the letter says it was returned to sender.
The DOJ doc launch additionally consists of an FBI doc requesting {that a} laboratory carry out a handwriting evaluation to find out whether or not the letter was written by Epstein. It is unclear whether or not the FBI got here to a conclusion on this case.
One other doc included is a 2021 subpoena to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago membership for employment data in the course of the investigation into Maxwell.
NPR’s Luke Garrett contributed reporting.
