Epstein case: more than 11,000 documents revealed, Trump present on at least eight of the financier's private flights

The Justice Department released more files related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. It consists of more than 11,000 files, images and other documents. According to an initial analysis by CBS News, the dataset, the largest released to date, also appears to include FBI documents, internal Justice Department communications, subpoenas, other legal documents and records relating to Epstein's death in 2019 while in federal custody.

Meanwhile, new details emerge. US President Donald Trump 'travelled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously reported (or than we were aware of)' according to flight records. An assistant US attorney for the Southern District of New York wrote this in an email dated 8 January 2020, as reported by CNN. Trump is listed as a passenger on 'at least eight flights between 1993 and 1996, including at least four flights on which (Ghislaine) Maxwell was also present,' it reads. On one 1993 flight, Trump and Epstein 'are the only two passengers listed; on another, the only three passengers are Epstein, Trump and a 20-year-old woman'. "On two other flights, two of the passengers, respectively, were women who would have been possible witnesses in a Maxwell case," the assistant US attorney said in the email, sent during Trump's first term. The assistant US attorney added: "We just finished reviewing all the documents (more than 100 pages of very short writings) and we didn't want this to come as a surprise in the future."

The documents on Jeffrey Epstein released by the Justice Department include a report that came to the FBI on 27 October 2020, shortly before the election. The sender had told the agents about a conversation he had had with a limo driver who had driven Donald Trump through Dallas in 1995. The driver - according to media reports - had overheard a telephone conversation in which Trump spoke to a 'Jeffrey' referring to abuse of a girl. The person who had made the report had then mentioned another person - whose name is omitted - who allegedly reported that Trump had raped her with Epstein. The president is not charged with anything in the Epstein case.

A handwritten letter signed "J. Epstein" appears to contain vulgar references to President Donald Trump in a short 2019 message sent from prison to convicted sex offender Larry Nassar. Cnn reports this, in reference to the latest files on Epstein released by the Justice Department. The letter does not explicitly name Trump, but refers to 'our president'. The message appears to have been sent in August 2019, the same month Epstein committed suicide. At the time, Trump was president. "Our president also shares our love for young, attractive girls," the letter reads. The letter contains another obscene reference to Trump's treatment of women. "Life is unfair," the letter reads. While not referring to this specific letter, the Justice Department released a statement saying that some of the leaked documents 'contain false and sensationalist claims' against the president. Nassar, a long-time doctor for the US gymnastics team and Michigan State University, is serving a 60-year sentence in federal prison for child pornography offences. More than 150 women and girls have testified publicly in court that they were sexually abused by him.

New humiliation for the now former Prince Andrew, younger brother of King Charles III and 'favourite son' of the late Queen Elizabeth II, who has already been stripped of all remaining royal titles in recent months against the backdrop of the most recent embarrassing revelations about his years-long association with the late American financier-pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.