US President Donald Trump flew on the private jet of American financier Jeffrey Epstein, accused of trafficking minors for sexual exploitation, “much more often than previously reported,” Reuters reports, citing an email from an unnamed New York prosecutor from documents published by the Justice Department.
In a letter dated January 7, 2020, the prosecutor said that, according to flight data, Trump flew eight times on Epstein’s private jet in the 1990s. Among those flights were at least four, which were also attended by Ghislaine Maxwell, the financier’s girlfriend, who was convicted of human trafficking for sexual exploitation.
On one of the flights mentioned in the documents, the only three passengers were Epstein, Trump and a 20-year-old woman, whose name was not disclosed.
The American leader himself claimed in 2024 that he had “never been on Epstein’s plane or on his “stupid” island.”
The US Department of Justice said that the files on the Epstein case contain many “false and sensational” allegations received by the FBI shortly before the 2020 election.
“These statements are unfounded and false, if there was even a drop of truth in them, they would have already been used against President Trump,” they said.
The agency has published over 30,000 documents.