Donald Trump and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were friends for a time.Image: keystone
The US Department of Justice is making another tranche of the Epstein files public. There are some serious allegations against US President Donald Trump. Here is an overview of the most important points.
Dec 24, 2025, 03:36December 24, 2025, 04:18
The rape accusation against Trump and Epstein
The newly published documents from the Epstein files, which are currently being gradually published, put Donald Trump in a distorted light. An FBI document records a man saying that Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein raped a woman together. The man contacted the FBI on October 27, 2020 to share potentially important information about the Epstein case. The now published document shows what the man, whose name has been anonymized, told officials.
The man said that a woman with whom he had a child but had not been together for a long time told him on Christmas Eve 1999 – when he met her to see his son – that Trump had raped her. When he asked, she said:
“Donald J. Trump raped me along with Jeffrey Epstein.”
He had previously told an anecdote from his time as a limousine driver. In 1995 he chauffeured the current US President in Dallas, Texas. Trump made disturbing statements on the phone while driving. He was about to stop the vehicle. Trump said the name “Jeffrey” several times and made suggestions about “abusing a girl.” It was not clear to him at the time who Trump had spoken to.
“I can’t, they’ll kill me”
When he told this story to the mother of his child, she “suddenly became ice cold” and made the rape accusation. When he asked, she reportedly explained that “a girl with a funny name” took her to “a fancy hotel or building – that’s how it happened.” It is not clear who the girl with the “funny name” is, but the caller suggested that she was Epstein’s long-time confidante Ghislaine Maxwell, who has now been sentenced to a 20-year prison sentence.
The passage from the new documents.Image: screenshot DOJ
He then advised the mother of their child to go to the police immediately with this information. She reacted negatively and said: “I can’t, they’ll kill me.” The next day, Christmas Day, she called him and told him that she had contacted the police. He encouraged her to do so.
After that, he didn’t hear from her again until January 10, 2000. He was then contacted and told that the woman had been found with her head “blown off” in the town of Kiefer, Oklahoma. According to the report, officers at the scene and the person who contacted the caller said it was “out of the question that it was a suicide.” However, he was later officially classified as such in connection with cocaine deals with a Mexican cartel in which the woman was said to have been involved. The caller told the FBI that he suspected the death was related to the allegations against Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump and was part of a cover-up.
The FBI transcript is simply a replay of what was said on the phone. It does not contain a direct quote from the woman addressed. The caller was not evaluated for credibility and no investigation was made into the veracity of the statements.
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According to Mail: Trump flew with Epstein more often than known
Another document contains an email from 2020. This says that Trump flew on Epstein’s private jet between 1993 and 1996 “significantly more often than previously known.”
Accordingly, Trump completed at least eight flights. Ghislaine Maxwell was present on four flights. On another flight, only Trump, Epstein and a 20-year-old person were on board.
Two other flights included female passengers who, according to internal assessments, would have been potential witnesses in a Maxwell trial. The email expressly emphasizes that naming names does not prove wrongdoing.
Meeting with 14 year old
A civil lawsuit from 2020 has now also been published. In it, a plaintiff describes that Epstein introduced her to Trump in 1994 when she was 14 years old.
The document states that Epstein addressed Trump by saying:
“That’s a good one, right?”
Trump smiled and nodded. They both laughed, while the girl felt uncomfortable. The same applies here: This is an accusation, not a judicial finding.
The letter to Larry Nassar
An alleged letter from Jeffrey Epstein to US sports doctor Larry Nassar initially caused a stir. Nassar caused another major abuse scandal; he sexually assaulted more than 250 female athletes, some of them underage, during his time as a doctor for the US Gymnastics Association. He was sentenced to up to 175 years in prison in 2018 and has been in prison ever since.
Epstein is said to have written to Nassar shortly before his death.
«Dear LN, as you now know, I took the short route home. Good luck to you! We both shared one thing… our love and care for young women in the hope that they will reach their full potential.”
Then Donald Trump is also mentioned – not by name, but there is a reference to him with “our president”. The letter was allegedly written in 2019 just a few days before Epstein’s death, when Trump was US President.
«Our president shares our preference for young, well-developed girls. When a young beauty walked past us, he loved to grab her, while now we have to grab food in the system’s common areas. Life is unfair. Your J. Epstein.”
Epstein’s alleged letter to Larry Nassar.Image: DOJ
The US Department of Justice said on Tuesday evening (Swiss time), hours after publication, that the letter was a forgery. The handwriting is not identical to that of Epstein. The letter serves as a “reminder that documents published by the Ministry of Justice do not automatically mean that the allegations or allegations contained therein are true.”
That’s what the Justice Department says
While the Justice Department commented directly on the Nassar letter, it only commented generally on the other documents that make a connection to Trump. A statement warned that in the context of the gradual release of the files, unsubstantiated or possibly false allegations could emerge, including those relating to Donald Trump. Some of the claims now published about the US President are “untrue and lurid”.
Chief Pam Bondi’s ministry was hit with criticism after the first documents were released last Friday. In addition to allegations of lack of transparency and manipulation due to excessive and possibly one-sided redactions and censorship, there have also recently been allegations that the authority is acting carelessly and not taking enough of the perspective of Epstein’s victims. Deletions of files that had already been published also caused criticism and accusations of manipulation. (con/t-online)
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