What specific flight logs and dates in the Epstein files list Donald Trump as a passenger?
Executive summary
A newly published tranche of Jeffrey Epstein files contains a January 2020 prosecutor email stating Donald Trump is listed as a passenger on “at least eight flights between 1993 and 1996,” but the public documents provide just one clear, dated flight entry—13 August 1995 from Palm Beach (PBI) to Teterboro (TEB)—and other entries that are undated or heavily redacted [1] [2] [3].
1. What the documents actually say about Trump and Epstein’s plane
The central, repeatedly cited item is an assistant U.S. attorney’s January 2020 email saying flight records show Trump “traveled on Epstein’s private jet many more times than previously has been reported,” and that he appears on at least eight flights dated broadly between 1993 and 1996 [1] [2] [4]. The same prosecutor email specifies that on some of those trips Ghislaine Maxwell was also aboard, and that on at least one flight the listed passengers were Epstein, Trump, and a then-20-year-old whose name is redacted [2] [5]. The DOJ’s public release includes handwritten flight logs that appear difficult to read and many redactions, which limits the number of clear, date-and-route-specific entries available to the public [1] [6].
2. The one clear dated entry in the files: 13 August 1995
Among the records made public, one handwritten flight log entry explicitly lists Donald Trump (and his son Eric, according to that same entry) on a flight from Palm Beach International Airport (PBI) to Teterboro, New Jersey (TEB) on 13 August 1995; that specific date and routing is the clearest, directly cited data point in media summaries of the release [1]. Multiple outlets referencing the DOJ release highlight that this is an identified, dated trip in the files, and it is often presented as the single discrete, verifiable date in the batch tied by name to Trump [1] [6].
3. Other referenced flights: ranges, not dates
Beyond the August 1995 notation, the public materials and reporting do not list a comprehensive set of dated flight logs naming Trump; instead, the prosecutor’s summary characterizes at least eight flights across 1993–1996 without enumerating each date in the released email or in the redacted flight log images [2] [4]. Reporting notes one 1993 entry in which Epstein and Trump were the only two passengers listed, but that account as circulated by news organizations does not anchor that entry to an exact calendar day in the publicly posted pages [3]. Several outlets emphasize that many flight-log pages remain hard to read or are redacted, constraining any definitive public cataloguing of dates beyond the items already flagged by prosecutors [1] [6].
4. Disputes, context, and limits of the public record
The Justice Department itself warned the release contains some material that is unverified or sensationalist, and media outlets note the DOJ heavily redacted many pages before posting them, which affects the ability to confirm additional specific flight dates or interpret passenger lists [7] [4]. Trump has publicly denied being on Epstein’s plane and has characterized the files as politically motivated, while prosecutors explicitly stated the flight-listing is not itself evidence of criminal conduct; both the president’s denials and the prosecutor’s cautions are part of the public record [2] [8]. Several news organizations—Reuters, BBC, PBS, Time, and others—have relied on the same January 2020 email as the basis for noting the “at least eight” figure and the highlighted August 1995 entry [2] [1] [3] [5].
5. Bottom line and what remains unknown
The published files substantiate at least one dated flight entry naming Donald Trump—13 August 1995 from PBI to TEB—and a prosecutor’s contemporaneous claim that Trump appears on at least eight Epstein flights between 1993 and 1996, but the public release does not provide an unambiguous, fully itemized list of all eight dates and routings because many logs are handwritten, hard to read, or redacted [1] [2] [6]. Absent further unredacted pages or a DOJ index that enumerates each flight plainly, additional specific dates beyond August 13, 1995 cannot be confidently extracted from the materials currently available [4] [7].