The US Justice Department on Tuesday released another tranche of documents linked to the investigation into late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The newly released material makes reference to Donald Trump in connection with flight records of Epstein’s private jet, though authorities have stressed that the US President has not been accused of any criminal wrongdoing.
The latest disclosure comprises around 30,000 pages, much of it heavily redacted, along with dozens of video clips—some reportedly recorded inside a prison facility. Epstein was found dead in a New York jail in 2019 in what was officially ruled a suicide.
Among the documents is an email dated January 7, 2020, which claims that “Donald Trump travelled on Epstein’s private jet many more times than has previously been reported (or that we were aware).” The email forms part of a chain titled “RE: Epstein flight records.”
While the sender and recipient remain redacted, the email appears to include an assistant US attorney from the Southern District of New York, whose name has also been blacked out.
According to the email, Trump was listed as a passenger on at least eight flights between 1993 and 1996. Four of those flights reportedly included Ghislaine Maxwell. The document further claims that Trump travelled on some occasions with then-wife Marla Maples, daughter Tiffany, and son Eric.
It also states that on one flight in 1993, only Trump and Epstein were listed as passengers. On another journey, the listed passengers were Epstein, Trump, and a 20-year-old individual whose name has been redacted. The email further notes that two women who could have been potential witnesses in the Maxwell case were listed on two other flights.
However, minutes after releasing the documents, the Justice Department issued a clarification, saying that some of the newly disclosed material contained “untrue and sensationalist claims” relating to former President Donald Trump. These claims, the department said, had been submitted to the FBI shortly before the 2020 US presidential election.
“To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponised against President Trump already,” the Justice Department said in a post on X.
The documents follow an earlier release made under the Trump administration as part of compliance with a newly enacted transparency law mandating the disclosure of Epstein-related files. That earlier batch, released on Friday and Saturday, was also heavily redacted, drawing criticism from some Republicans and doing little to ease political tensions ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
Those earlier files included previously unseen photographs of former President Bill Clinton with Epstein, as well as a 1996 description of a criminal complaint involving the disgraced financier.
Responding to the controversy on Monday, Trump told reporters that the Epstein files were being “used to deflect against tremendous success” achieved by him and his party. The transparency law, passed by Congress last month, requires the release of all Epstein-related records, despite Trump’s earlier attempts to keep parts of the material sealed.