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A file photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump, then a real estate developer, at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida in 1997
US President Donald Trump was listed as a passenger on the private jet of late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein eight times between 1993 and 1996, a new email released by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) says.
“Donald Trump traveled on Epstein’s private jet many more times than previously has been reported (or that we were aware),” reads the 7 January 2020 email from an assistant US attorney.
Trump’s name on the flight record does not indicate wrongdoing. In 2024, Trump wrote: “I was never on Epstein’s Plane”. He has denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein.
The DOJ says some files released on Tuesday “contain untrue and sensationalist claims” against Trump.
Trump was a friend of Epstein’s for years, but the president has said they fell out in about 2004 – years before Epstein was first arrested.
The latest release of documents – running to more than 30,000 pages – is part of the so-called Epstei
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