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 comprise a whole lot 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 Eighties, ’90s, and 2000s. This newest tranche provides 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 obtainable by final Friday. The division has taken a piecemeal strategy to releasing the recordsdata, that are anticipated to comprise a whole lot of hundreds of pages.
In a Tuesday-morning social media submit, the division mentioned that the most recent batch incorporates almost 30,000 pages, including that it contains “unfaithful or sensationalist claims” about Trump. When requested for touch upon the most recent recordsdata, the White Home referred NPR to the Justice Division assertion.
The most recent set of recordsdata features a 2020 e-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 had been conscious).”
The prosecutor mentioned 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 identify was redacted.
Flight logs included within the newest recordsdata present that Trump’s flights had been primarily home, between New Jersey, Palm Seaside, and Washington, D.C.
President Trump has but to reply on to the most recent doc dump, however on Monday informed reporters that he thinks the Epstein recordsdata are a distraction, and that they unfairly implicate harmless individuals.
“What this entire factor is with Epstein is a method of attempting to deflect from the super success that the Republican Occasion has,” Trump mentioned. “Lots of people are very offended that photos are being launched of different individuals 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 wreck a fame of any person.”
The recordsdata additionally embrace a 2019 letter supposedly despatched by Epstein to convicted intercourse offender Larry Nassar — the previous U.S. gymnastics group physician. However since releasing the letter, the Justice Division has mentioned it’s a pretend.
The letter, which says Epstein despatched it from a correctional facility in Manhattan, says that “our president shares our love of younger, nubile women.” A stamp on the letter says it was returned to sender.
The Justice Division posted on social media there have been some inconsistencies with the letter, similar to a Virginia postmark as an alternative of a New York postmark and the return handle itemizing the mistaken jail for Epstein. After initially saying Tuesday they had been “trying into the validity” of the letter, the DOJ mentioned the FBI had concluded it was a “pretend.”
“This pretend letter serves as a reminder that simply because a doc is launched by the Division of Justice doesn’t make the allegations or claims throughout the doc factual. Nonetheless, the DOJ will proceed to launch all materials required by regulation,” the Justice Division mentioned.
The FBI declined to remark.
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.
