A Justice Department email from January 2020 indicates that flight logs show President Donald Trump traveled on the late *** offender Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet more times than officials had previously understood — including on flights that also included people described as possible witnesses in a case involving Ghislaine Maxwell.
The email, released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act signed by Trump on Nov. 19, says the records list Trump as a passenger on at least eight flights between 1993 and 1996. The email adds that Maxwell was reportedly on four of those flights.
“On two other flights, two of the passengers, respectively, were women who would be possible witnesses in a Maxwell case,” the email states. “We’ve just finished reviewing the full records (more than 100 pages of very small script) and didn’t want this to be a surprise down the road.” The recipients of the email are redacted.
Asked for comment, the White House pointed to a Justice Department tweet that said some of the documents released Tuesday “contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump.”
“To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false,” the department wrote. “And if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already.”
Maxwell was convicted of *** trafficking in 2021 for her role in grooming underage victims for Epstein and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. The FBI arrested her in July 2020, nearly a year after Epstein — her longtime partner — died by suicide in a New York City jail while awaiting trial on *** trafficking charges.
This month, the Justice Department has released thousands of files tied to the Epstein investigation, many of them redacted. Under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, Congress allows the department to withhold classified information, details that could identify victims, or material that could compromise an ongoing federal investigation.
Some of the released photos show Epstein with what appear to be children. Maxwell appears in several images, along with other well-known figures, including former President Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Michael Jackson, and Kevin Spacey. None are accused of criminal misconduct in connection with the images, which were released without context.
Trump also appears with Epstein in a photo that was briefly removed from the Justice Department’s website before later being restored amid backlash.
The newly released files are separate from the Epstein-related emails previously released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee. Trump’s name appears multiple times in those emails as well.
