Over the weekend, Donald Trump traveled to campaign events on a private jet formerly owned by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The aviation newspaper Air Current reported the news on Sunday. Miami Herald The former president was on his private jet en route to a campaign event in Bozeman, Montana, when the plane landed in Billings (two hours east of Bozeman) due to mechanical issues, a Trump campaign spokeswoman said. Herald.
After Trump and some of his staff took a chartered plane to a rally on Friday, the former president hopped aboard a Gulfstream jet the next day with a serial number matching one previously owned by the late Epstein. Trump used the plane to fly to a fundraising event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, then to Aspen and Denver.
the Aspen Daily News Trump, who was scheduled to appear at a fundraiser hosted by the Trump 47 Committee, was reportedly on a Gulfstream jet that landed at the Aspen-Pitkin County Airport on Saturday. The local newspaper reported that the tail number of the chartered plane, a G-550, matches a plane with the same serial number as a former Gulfstream jet owned by Epstein.
According to HeraldThe plane was registered in 2018 to one of Epstein's companies based in the U.S. Virgin Islands, according to Flight Aware.
A Trump spokeswoman said the plane was chartered by a vendor the campaign often uses. “The campaign was not aware that the chartered plane was owned by Mr. Epstein,” she said. “We heard about the previous owner through the media.”
Trump's representative also confirmed that Epstein's old plane had a “Trump 2024” sticker for the trip, and that Epstein's previous plane was only used for one day.
The former president is among the most prominent people associated with Epstein and was photographed with Epstein at Mar-a-Lago in 1997 and again in 2000 with his wife, Melania, and Epstein’s partner, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell (who was convicted in 2021 of child sex trafficking and sentenced to 20 years in prison). After Epstein was convicted of sex trafficking in 2008, Trump tried to distance himself from the disgraced financier. However, Trump has spoken out in the past about Epstein’s praise.
“I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. He’s a great guy,” Trump said. New York In 2002, The Hill magazine published an article about Jeffrey. “He’s a very funny guy. It’s even said that he loves beautiful women as much as I do, many of them younger. There’s no doubt about it—Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”
