President Donald Trump is named in flight logs of Jeffrey Epstein’s private plane, according to newly released documents.
The flight log indicates that Trump flew with then wife Marla Maples, daughter Tiffany and a nanny from Palm Beach, Florida to Reagan National Airport in Washington D.C. and then to Teterboro Airport in New Jersey on May 15, 1994.
His daughter Tiffany was only 7 months old at the time of the flight. Marla was Trump’s second wife and the two married on Dec. 20, 1993, before divorcing in 1999.
Epstein was accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls in the early 2000s, but wound up serving just 13 months in jail. He was indicted on federal charges in New York in 2019, more than a decade after he secretly struck a deal with federal prosecutors in Florida to dispose of similar charges of sex trafficking.
Attorney General Pam Bondi suggested in a Thursday letter to FBI Director Kash Patel that more records were recently discovered. She ordered the FBI to hand over “the full and complete Epstein files” to her by Friday morning, and directed Patel to “conduct an immediate investigation” into why her order to the FBI to turn over all documents was not followed.
Trump, who was in office when Epstein was found dead in jail in 2019, suggested while campaigning last year that he’d seek to open up the government’s files.
The case has drawn widespread attention because of Epstein and his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell’s links to royals, presidents and billionaires. Maxwell herself is the daughter of the late British media tycoon Robert Maxwell, who once owned the New York Daily News.
Over the years, thousands of pages of records have been released through lawsuits, Epstein’s criminal dockets, public disclosures and Freedom of Information Act requests. In January 2024, a court unsealed a trove of documents that had been collected as evidence in a lawsuit filed by Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre.
Much of the material, including transcripts of victim interviews and old police reports, had already been publicly known. They included mentions of Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Britain’s Prince Andrew and magician David Copperfield, as well as testimony from one victim who said she met Michael Jackson at Epstein’s Florida home but nothing untoward happened with him.
Bondi said that officials are making final redactions to the documents before they are to be released. Bondi’s announcement comes as she has faced mounting pressure from Republicans to release the Epstein files, among other documents of public interest, such as documents surrounding former president John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
