Which specific documents in the Epstein release are flight logs listing Trump and what dates do they show?
Executive summary
A January 7, 2020 email by a New York federal prosecutor, included in the Department of Justice’s public Epstein release, cites flight records that list Donald Trump as a passenger on Epstein aircraft at least eight times in the 1990s, and the released materials (including a handwritten flight log) contain entries tying Trump — and in one noted instance his son Eric — to a specific flight on 13 August 1995; the public releases otherwise show the flights concentrated between about 1993 and 1996 but do not provide a single, unambiguous master list of every date [1] [2] [3].
1. The core document: the prosecutor’s January 7, 2020 email and what it says
The clearest reference in the DOJ tranche is an internal email dated January 7, 2020 from an unnamed prosecutor in the Southern District of New York that states flight records received by the office “reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein’s private jet many more times than previously has been reported,” and that the prosecutor’s review showed Trump listed on at least eight flights during the 1990s [1] [4]. This email is the principal document journalists have pointed to when summarizing which pieces of the released material list Trump as a passenger [1].
2. Specific flight-log entries that have been singled out in reporting
Reporting identifies at least one concrete handwritten log entry included among the released materials that lists Donald Trump and his son Eric for a flight from Palm Beach International (PBI) to Teterboro, New Jersey (TEB) on 13 August 1995; that handwritten flight log was made public by the DOJ and highlighted in coverage such as the BBC [2]. Other accounts in the releases point to a 1993 flight where Trump and Epstein were the only two passengers listed, and to another flight that listed Epstein, Trump and a 20‑year‑old woman (name redacted), but those specific dates beyond 1993 are not fully itemized in the reporting summarized here [4] [1].
3. Range and tally: what dates the public releases support
Multiple outlets that reviewed the DOJ production say the logged flights that include Trump fall roughly in the period between 1993 and 1996 and that the prosecutor’s note quantified at least eight such flights in the 1990s [3] [1]. The DOJ’s broader December and January releases also contained earlier flight-log materials disclosed in prior batches, and news organizations state the newly released pages expanded the number of recorded Trump appearances on Epstein flight records [5] [6]. Still, the reporting does not present a single declassified, complete machine-readable log enumerating all eight dates line‑by‑line in an easily citable list in the public domain [1] [7].
4. Context, caveats and what the logs do — and do not — prove
The DOJ itself cautioned that some submitted documents “contain untrue and sensationalist claims” and that raw tips or news-clippings in the trove may be unreliable; the presence of a name on a flight manifest is a contemporaneous administrative entry but by itself is not proof of criminal conduct, a point noted in the releases and in reporting [2] [8]. News outlets also emphasize that many of the files referencing Trump were news articles, tips, or third‑party materials filed into the Epstein record rather than direct communications between Trump and Epstein [7] [3]. The public record compiled so far therefore contains flight‑log entries and a prosecutor’s tally, but not a fully unambiguous, consolidated public list of every flight date with corroborating manifest metadata available in the sources provided here [1] [2].
5. What remains unsettled in the released corpus
Advocates and some reporters argue that millions of pages remain redacted or unreleased and that the DOJ’s staggered disclosures make it difficult to itemize every relevant record; congressional observers have asked whether all materials mentioning Trump have been produced, underscoring that the current public dossier is substantial but possibly incomplete for the specific forensic task of enumerating every logged flight and exact passenger lists [9] [6]. Until the DOJ posts an indexed, unredacted manifest or researchers compile a definitive concordance from the millions of pages, the public accounting rests on the prosecutor’s email, the cited handwritten log (13 August 1995), and multiple press reconstructions pointing to at least eight flights between roughly 1993 and 1996 [1] [2] [3].