Epstein Allegedly Wrote to Larry Nassar That ‘Our President’ Loves ‘Young, Nubile Girls’

The Justice Department released (and unreleased and re-released) more than 30,000 additional Epstein files late Monday. And unlike Friday’s drop—which was delayed, riddled with redactions, and scrubbed suspiciously clean of any mentions of Trump—the president appears throughout. (The guns! They’re smoking! Again!)

One of the files appears to be a handwritten letter from Epstein to another convicted pedophile, Larry Nassar. In it, the disgraced financier wrote to the disgraced doctor about their shared “love & caring for young ladies and the hope they reach their full potential.” (Fucking disgusting.)

“Our president also shares our love of young, nubile girls,” he continued, seemingly referencing Trump. “When a young beauty walked by he loved to ‘grab snatch,’ whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system. Life is unfair.”

The letter was reportedly postmarked on August 13, 2019—three days after Epstein died in custody in what was ruled a suicide. The DOJ has since tweeted that it is looking into the “validity” of the letter, noting that it lists the wrong jail in NYC as a return address, doesn’t include his inmate number, and was postmarked in Virginia, not New York.

However, the existence of a letter was first reported by the Associated Press in 2023, after the outlet obtained more than 4,000 documents about Epstein’s death from the federal Bureau of Prisons under the Freedom of Information Act. The letter to Nassar was reportedly found in the jail’s mailroom weeks after Epstein’s death. “It appeared he mailed it out and it was returned back to him,” the investigator who found the letter told a prison official via email. “I am not sure if I should open it or if we should hand it over to anyone?”

In another document, dated January 2020, a U.S. attorney from the Southern District of New York emailed an unnamed receiver about Trump’s flight records. According to the document, Trump “traveled on Epstein’s private jet many more times than previously…reported.” He also appeared to be on one trip where the only three passengers were the president, Epstein, and an unnamed 20-year-old.

Another harrowing file—appearing to be an FBI case dated October 2020—includes a claim from an unnamed victim alleging Trump raped her. “Donald J. Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein,” the case details read, with an accompanying statement by the victim that says, “Some girl with a funny name ‘took me into a fancy hotel or building, that’s how it happened.’”

The document also cites an unnamed driver who reported a “concerning” phone call he overheard from Trump on his way to an airport in 1995, in which he reportedly said the name “Jeffrey” continuously on the phone and commented about “abusing some girl.” 

And because nothing screams innocence more than some preemptive damage control, the DOJ tweeted on Tuesday morning that it didn’t fully agree with the claims revealed in the new files. “Some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election. To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already.” Sound advice, coming from an administration whose president was literally indicted for a hush-money payment and inciting an insurrection.

The third batch also follows the DOJ’s weekend dump, which included an already released image depicting Trump in a pile of other photographs. It appeared to be removed on Saturday, but the DOJ restored the photo on Sunday, giving a half-assed excuse, saying it was removed to “protect victims.” 

While the documents were uploaded and mostly available for most of Monday in the DOJ’s so-called “Epstein Library,” they were taken down at around 8 p.m. ET and reposted right before midnight, for no apparent reason, nor with any clarification whether anything new was redacted.

And are we surprised? Attorney General Pam Bondi has done a sloppy and careless job of releasing the files, so much so that social media users have reported being able to undo the redactions themselves. While some documents are “properly redacted”—meaning you cannot extract any data—others appear to have little more than a digital black highlighter drawn over certain words and names, allowing users to simply copy the “redacted” text and paste it into a separate document.

“This is unbelievable,” Ed Krassenstein, a political commentator, tweeted with a video of himself undoing redactions from one file, revealing that Epstein threatened to hurt victims if they tried to go public with their stories. “Look what he is trying to hide.”

On Tuesday, more than a dozen survivors signed a joint letter calling on Congress to hold hearings and ensure that the DOJ is complying with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which Trump signed into law in November after a discharge petition forced the bill into Congress.

“Survivors deserve truth,” the statement reads. “Survivors whose identities are private deserve protection. The public deserves accountability. And the law must be enforced.”

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