What documents and flight logs exist showing Donald Trump on Jeffrey Epstein’s planes and what time periods do they cover?

1. What documents were released and where they came from

The items driving the coverage are a tranche of documents the DOJ published under the Epstein Files Transparency Act that include an internal email from an unnamed assistant U.S. attorney in January 2020 summarizing flight-record material and some released flight-log images and excerpts that were earlier disclosed in related prosecutions and civil filings ^{[3] [6]}. News outlets report the DOJ’s packet contained hand-written flight logs and prosecutorial notes that reference passenger lists and travel dates, and some outlets reproduced legible log entries as part of their reporting ^{[2] [7]}.

2. What the January 2020 prosecutor email says

The most-cited document is the internal email dated January 7–8, 2020 in which a Manhattan assistant U.S. attorney wrote that flight records “reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein’s private jet many more times than previously has been reported (or that we were aware),” and that Trump “is listed as a passenger on at least eight flights between 1993 and 1996,” with some flights also listing Ghislaine Maxwell and family members ^{[1] [3] [2]}.

3. What the flight logs themselves show (dates and specific entries)

Published flight-log snippets and reporting point to multiple entries across the 1990s: BBC and other reporting identify a handwritten log entry naming Donald Trump and son Eric for a flight on August 13, 1995 from Palm Beach (PBI) to Teterboro (TEB) and note other entries dated 1993–1996; compilations of logs made public earlier include flights dated April 23, 1993; October 11 and 17, 1993; May 15, 1994; August 13, 1995; and at least one entry reported as January 5, 1997 in secondary summaries ^{[2] [8]}. Multiple outlets summarized that seven or eight flight-log entries with Trump’s name were known publicly from releases in 2020–2025 ^{[8] [9]}.

4. How journalists and agencies have interpreted those entries

Major outlets — Reuters, CNN, BBC, NBC and PBS — reported the assistant U.S. attorney’s summary that Trump appeared on at least eight Epstein flights in the 1990s and emphasized that a name on a log does not itself prove criminal conduct; those outlets reproduced the prosecutor’s framing that the flights occurred “including during the period we would expect to charge in a Maxwell case” ^{[1] [3] [6] [7]}. Some aggregations and encyclopedic entries list overlapping but not identical date ranges — most consistently citing 1993–1996, with a few references extending to 1997 ^{[8] [10]}.

5. Disputes, caveats and official pushback

The Justice Department explicitly warned that the latest release contained “untrue and sensationalist claims” and the DOJ also flagged some individual items in the public drop as fake or unverified, while Trump and allies have denied wrongdoing and disputed interpretations of the logs; mainstream reporting therefore treats the logs and the prosecutor’s note as factual documents whose contents still require context and verification ^{[4] [3] [11]}. Newsrooms uniformly note that appearing on a passenger manifest is not an accusation and that the DOJ release was heavily redacted and incomplete, leaving limits on what can be definitively concluded from the public files ^{[6] [10]}.

6. Bottom line

Documentary evidence in the public Epstein files includes handwritten flight logs and an internal prosecutorial email stating that Donald Trump was listed on at least eight Epstein flights mainly in the mid‑1990s (commonly cited as 1993–1996, with some public summaries including an entry in early 1997); those documents are part of a larger, partially redacted and contested set of materials the DOJ has released and the presence of a name on a log is not a criminal finding ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}.