Donald Trump�s Campaign Admits It Rented Jeffrey�s Epstein�s Jet
OOPS!

A campaign official told The Daily Beast that it instructed a charter jet
company to never lease them the infamous Gulfstream G550 ever again.
Josh Fiallo
Updated Aug. 12, 2024 8:23PM EDT / Published Aug. 12, 2024 5:31PM EDT

Donald Trump�s campaign confirmed the former president chartered a private
jet this weekend that once belonged to Jeffrey Epstein, but said he did so
by accident.

A campaign official told The Daily Beast on Monday afternoon that Trump and
his staff had �no idea� the Gulfstream G550 was once owned by one of the
country�s most infamous sex traffickers. The official said the jet was
provided to the campaign by a charter flight company.

�The campaign had absolutely no idea the aircraft we rented was previously
owned by Mr. Epstein,� the official said, adding that Trump�s advisers only
learned of the jet�s shady past once journalists contacted them Monday.

Trump�s camp said he took only one flight on the jet�a relatively short,
363 mile hop from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to Aspen, Colorado, where he was
attending fundraisers on the campaign trail. He flew back to Florida on
Saturday night in a separate chartered plane as his private aircraft, Trump
Force One, was still undergoing repairs in Montana.
Jeffrey Epstein stands in front of his Gulfstream G550 private jet.

Jeffrey Epstein stands in front of his Gulfstream G550 private jet.
U.S. Department of Justice

The official said Trump�s campaign instructed Private Jet Services
Group�the charter jet company who provided the plane�to not pull out
Epstein�s old aircraft again the next time Trump calls. The Trump official
said the company, who�s been used by the former president �many times,� was
apologetic and assured the campaign it wouldn�t happen again.

Rumors about the flight spread quickly over the weekend, seemingly starting
on X and Reddit after the 16-year-old jet was photographed on the ground in
Aspen by a local photojournalist and plane spotter.

Online sleuths noticed the jet looked familiar and dug into its past, using
the Federal Aviation Administration�s public registry to look up its tail
number, serial number, and history. That appeared to uncover that the jet,
which seats up to 16 people, was the same private plane Epstein purchased
in 2013 and regularly flew between Palm Beach, Manhattan, Paris, and the
U.S. Virgin Islands, redacted records showed.

The aircraft is not the same as Epstein�s infamous �Lolita Express,� which
was a Boeing 727 he allegedly used to shuttle underage girls around the
country and Caribbean. Flight logs listed Trump as being a passenger on
that plane previously.

It was the Gulfstream G550 that Epstein was flying on just before he was
arrested at an airport in Teterboro, New Jersey, on July 6, 2019�his final
day of freedom. He�d just returned stateside after a trip to Paris, and was
found dead in a New York prison a little over a month later.

The Gulfstream G550 was put up for sale a year later with an asking price
of $16.9 million, the Palm Beach Post reported at the time. A Trump
campaign official said the plane has changed hands twice since then, which
included its tail number number being changed.

That official added that the jet�s livery on Saturday, which had �Trump
2024� painted on its left side, was painted by the plane�s current owner
once they heard that his jet was going to be used by Trump.

�Once the owner had found out that his plane was being chartered to the
campaign, he made the decision to put the decals on the plane himself,� the
official said, noting the font used is different than the Trump campaign�s.

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