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 recordsdata Tuesday associated to convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein which include tons of 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 non-public 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 recordsdata.
Congress required the Justice Division to make all recordsdata out there by final Friday. The division has taken a piecemeal strategy to releasing the recordsdata, that are anticipated to include tons of of 1000’s of pages.
In a Tuesday-morning social media publish, the division stated that the newest batch accommodates practically 30,000 pages, including that it contains “unfaithful or sensationalist claims” about Trump. When requested for touch upon the latest recordsdata, the White Home referred NPR to the Justice Division assertion.
The newest set of recordsdata features a 2020 electronic mail from an unidentified federal prosecutor saying that “Donald Trump traveled on Epstein’s non-public 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 at the very least 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 identify was redacted.
Flight logs included within the newest recordsdata present that Trump’s flights have been primarily home, between New Jersey, Palm Seaside, and Washington, D.C.
President Trump has but to reply on to the newest doc dump, however on Monday instructed reporters that he thinks the Epstein recordsdata are a distraction, and that they unfairly implicate harmless folks.
“What this entire factor is with Epstein is a means of making an attempt to deflect from the great success that the Republican Celebration has,” Trump stated. “Lots of people are very indignant that photos 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 damage a status of any person.”
The recordsdata additionally embody a 2019 letter supposedly despatched by Epstein to convicted intercourse offender Larry Nassar — the previous U.S. gymnastics group 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 contains 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 throughout the investigation into Maxwell.
NPR’s Luke Garrett contributed reporting.
