Justice Division releases extra Epstein recordsdata and a few point out Trump : NPR

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Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photographs North America The Justice Division launched a brand new batch of recordsdata Tuesday associated to convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein which comprise a whole bunch of references to President Trump.

Trump has not been accused of wrongdoing in connection to Epstein although he had a well-documented friendship with the disgraced financier within the Eighties, '90s, and 2000s. This newest tranche provides extra particulars on Trump's relationship with Epstein, together with documentation of Trump flying on Epstein's personal jet within the Nineteen Nineties. Epstein's relationship with highly effective politicians and businessmen – and specifically, to what diploma Trump could have been conscious of Epstein's crimes – has been a central query because the DOJ has continued to launch the recordsdata.

Congress required the Justice Division to make all recordsdata obtainable by final Friday. The division has taken a piecemeal method to releasing the recordsdata, that are anticipated to comprise a whole bunch of hundreds of pages.

In a Tuesday-morning social media put up, the division mentioned that the most recent batch incorporates almost 30,000 pages, including that it consists of "unfaithful or sensationalist claims" about Trump. When requested for touch upon the latest recordsdata, the White Home referred NPR to the Justice Division assertion.

The most recent set of recordsdata features a 2020 e mail from an unidentified federal prosecutor saying that "Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's personal jet many extra occasions than beforehand has been reported (or that we have been conscious)."

The prosecutor mentioned Trump was listed as a passenger on not less than eight flights between 1993 and 1996, together with 4 on which Ghislaine Maxwell – Epstein's co-conspirator and herself a convicted intercourse offender – was additionally a passenger. The prosecutor additionally wrote that one flight included solely Trump, Epstein, and a 20-year-old whose title was redacted.

Flight logs included within the newest recordsdata present that Trump's flights have been primarily home, between New Jersey, Palm Seashore, and Washington, D.C.

President Trump has but to reply on to the most recent doc dump, however on Monday advised reporters that he thinks the Epstein recordsdata are a distraction, and that they unfairly implicate harmless individuals.

"What this entire factor is with Epstein is a means of making an attempt to deflect from the super success that the Republican Social gathering has," Trump mentioned. "Lots of people are very indignant that photos are being launched of different individuals that actually had nothing to do with Epstein, however they're in an image with him as a result of he was at a celebration. And also you wreck a popularity of someone."

The recordsdata additionally embody a 2019 letter supposedly despatched by Epstein to convicted intercourse offender Larry Nassar — the previous U.S. gymnastics staff physician.

The letter, which says Epstein despatched it from a correctional facility in Manhattan, says that "our president shares our love of younger, nubile women." A stamp on the letter says it was returned to sender.

The DOJ doc launch additionally consists of an FBI doc requesting {that a} laboratory carry out a handwriting evaluation to find out whether or not the letter was written by Epstein. It is unclear whether or not the FBI got here to a conclusion on this case.

The Justice Division posted on social media there have been some inconsistencies with the letter, comparable to a Virginia postmark not New York and the return handle itemizing the flawed jail for Epstein.

"The Division of Justice is at present wanting into the validity of this alleged letter from Jeffrey Epstein to Larry Nassar and we are going to comply with up as quickly as doable," the DOJ social media put up mentioned.