In late December 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice released a significant tranche of documents (nearly 30,000 pages) related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigations, as mandated by the Epstein Files Transparency Act passed by Congress earlier that year.
Among the files was a January 7, 2020, email from an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York noting that newly reviewed flight records showed Donald Trump had flown on Epstein’s private jet at least eight times between 1993 and 1996—more than previously publicly reported at that time.
The email specified:
- At least four of those flights also included Ghislaine Maxwell.
- One 1993 flight listed only Epstein and Trump as passengers.
- Another flight had only Epstein, Trump, and a then-20-year-old individual (name redacted; gender not specified).
- Two other flights each included a woman (names redacted) described as a potential witness in a prospective Maxwell case.
These were mostly short domestic flights, such as between Palm Beach, Florida, and New York-area airports (e.g., Teterboro), with some including Trump’s family members (e.g., then-wife Marla Maples, infant daughter Tiffany, son Eric, or a nanny).
Prior public knowledge (from logs released during Maxwell’s 2021 trial) had documented around seven Trump flights in the 1990s. The 2025 release highlighted the prosecutor’s 2020 surprise at the fuller count but added no evidence of trips to Epstein’s island or involvement in crimes.
No allegations of wrongdoing by Trump appear in the documents. He has long maintained that his social ties to Epstein ended in the mid-2000s after a falling out, and he was unaware of Epstein’s criminal activities. The releases included heavy redactions (to protect victims and other sensitivities) and drew criticism for not being more complete, but no major new prosecutions stemmed from them as of early 2026.
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