New Epstein Files Say Trump Flew on Jet With Him

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00:00We've got another big dump, thousands more Epstein files, and the president's name is

00:05appearing more times in this tranche than the first. He was asked about this

00:09at Mar-a-Lago last evening. Here's what Donald Trump said.

00:13Everybody was friendly with this guy, either friendly or not friendly, but he was around,

00:17he was all over Palm Beach and other places. The head of Harvard was his best friend,

00:21Larry Summers, and Bill Clinton was a friend of his, but everybody was.

00:25So, downplaying his relationship with Epstein, only to learn this morning, according to an email

00:34from an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York,

00:38Donald Trump was listed as a passenger on at least eight flights on Epstein's private jet between

00:431993 and 96, including at least four flights on which Ghislaine Maxwell was also present.

00:50Email says Trump also took at least one flight with Epstein and a 20-year-old.

00:54Is this the most significant finding in this second day?

00:57This very much could be, and this has been one of the points that Trump has repeatedly denied.

01:00He said he was never on the plane, he never went to the island, and now it's showing that he was,

01:05in fact, on the plane, according to these documents. You know, Trump, in his remarks last night,

01:10he mentioned that he thought it was a shame that people's reputations were being tarnished

01:14because of their connections with Jeffrey Epstein, and also mentioned he thought it was a distraction

01:19from all the work that the White House is doing. So, this is clearly someone who's in damage

01:22control mode. We also saw the Justice Department come up with a very interesting and, I would say,

01:26unusual tweet saying that, you know, in these documents, yes, Trump is named, but it is

01:31false and salacious, and these essentially sort of undercutting their own documents and their

01:37own release. So, this is, you know, clearly, you know, some of the critics coming out saying that

01:41this process has gotten very political, that the White House and the Justice Department are trying

01:45to protect Trump. This feeds a lot of that suspicion.

01:48Yeah, Laura, thank you so much. I know it's a super busy day in the newsroom, and it's always

01:51great to have you. Laura Davison with us on Bloomberg TV and radio. That statement that

01:56Laura refers to, coming from DOJ, reads, some of these documents, I'm reading directly here,

02:01some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President

02:07Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election. To be clear, the claims

02:13are unfounded and false. And if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have

02:18been weaponized against President Trump already.