00:00U.S. President Donald Trump was mentioned in a new batch of Epstein files released Tuesday
00:06by the Justice Department. Among them was a New York prosecutor's email saying that Trump
00:10flew on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's private jet, quote, many more times than previously
00:17has been reported. It said he had flown on the plane eight times in the 1990s. In a social
00:22media post in 2024, Trump said he was never on Epstein's plane or at his stupid island.
00:29Among the eight flights were four where Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell was aboard. She is
00:34serving a 20-year sentence for helping Epstein sexually abuse underage girls. On one flight,
00:40the only three passengers were Epstein, Trump, and a 20-year-old woman whose name was redacted.
00:45The prosecutor's email said that, quote, on two other flights, two of the passengers respectively
00:50were women who would be possible witnesses in a Maxwell case. There was no allegation in the
00:56prosecutor's email that Trump had committed any crime, and the White House did not immediately
01:00respond to a request for comment on the email. There have been no criminal allegations against
01:05Trump in the disclosures of the Justice Department's files on Epstein. The DOJ posted on X that,
01:11quote, some of the documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President
01:16Trump that were submitted to the FBI before the 2020 election. To be clear, the claims were
01:22unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been
01:25weaponized against President Trump already. On Monday, Trump played down the importance of the
01:31Epstein files. What this whole thing is with Epstein is a way of trying to deflect from the tremendous
01:36success that the Republican Party has. Like, for instance, today we're building the biggest ships in
01:41the world, most powerful ships in the world, and they're asking me questions about Jeffrey Epstein.
01:46I thought that was finished. Tuesday's release of some 30,000 files included the image of a card
01:52purporting to be written by Epstein to Larry Nassar, the former gymnastics doctor who was serving a life
01:58sentence for sexually abusing hundreds of girls. The card appears to allude to Trump in a handwritten
02:04note which reads, quote, our president also shares our love of young nubile girls. But just hours after
02:11releasing it to the public, the Justice Department labeled the card a fake, saying in a statement,
02:17quote, this fake letter serves as a reminder that just because a document is released by the Department
02:22of Justice does not make the allegations or claims within the document factual. Nevertheless,
02:28the DOJ will continue to release all material required by law. The envelope in the image is postmarked
02:34Virginia, not New York, where Epstein was jailed, and appears to have been processed three days after
02:40his death in August 2019. The White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment on
02:46the card. One of Larry Nassar's former lawyers, Shannon Smith, declined to comment. Another former
02:52lawyer, Matthew Newberg, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
