Former presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump faced renewed scrutiny this week as old flight logs reemerged, showing they took frequent trips with billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein aboard his notorious private jet, known as the “Lolita Express” due to Epstein’s sexual involvement with underage girls.
The 118-page flight log obtained by Atlanta Black Star, which became public during the 2021 trial of Epstein’s closest associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, was circulated Monday on social media, a day before a New York court was due to unseal records revealing the names of 175 people with close ties to the deceased pedophile.
In December, U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska determined there was no legal basis for continuing to withhold the names of individuals linked to Epstein and ordered the documents to be unsealed in January.
Attorneys for persons named in the documents were given the chance to examine the files before their release and present arguments to keep them confidential.
Notably, Clinton’s legal team raised no objections to the public disclosure, according to Newsweek.
The release comes nearly five years after the 66-year-old disgraced money manager was found hanged in a New York jail cell in 2019 — a little more than a month after he was arrested and charged with sex trafficking countless girls, some as young as 14 years old.
The behind-the-scenes involvement of two U.S. presidents underscored the extent of Epstein’s influence with some of the world’s most rich and powerful people despite his sleazy reputation.
A number of voices on social media recalled that Clinton and Trump’s names appeared repeatedly in dozens of flight logs, proving they traveled regularly with Epstein.
However, the flight logs do not indicate whether Trump or Clinton landed on Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean that served as the base of his international sex-trafficking ring.
Clinton took at least nine trips on…
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