Jeffrey Epstein wrote a letter to his fellow sex criminal, Larry Nassar, a US Olympic gymnastics team doctor convicted of sexual abuse, days before his death saying Donald Trump shared their love of young girls.
“As you will know by now, I have taken the ‘short route’ home,” the letter released by the Justice Department reads. “Good luck! We shared one thing … our love & caring for young ladies and the hope they reach their full potential.”
The letter continues: “Our president also shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to ‘grab snatch’, whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system.”
The letter is signed: “Life is unfair. Yours, J. Epstein.”
The letter is postmarked August 13, 2019, three days after Epstein died by suicide in the Metropolitan Correction Center in New York City. It was found by investigators in the jail mail room weeks later after it was returned from a prison in Arizona where Nassar was being held. It was marked “no longer at this address.”
“It appeared he mailed it out and it was returned back to him,” the investigator told a prison official in an email included in the documents. “I am not sure if I should open it or should we hand it over to anyone?”
The letter was buried in a trove of documents released by the DOJ on Monday as part of ongoing disclosures related to Epstein. Several of the papers explicitly identified Trump and tied him to Epstein. In a 2020 email, a federal prosecutor asserted that Trump had flown on Epstein’s private jet “many more times than previously has been reported (or that we were aware).” Another document alleged that a victim recalled being raped by Trump and Epstein.
Trump has repeatedly denied knowledge of and involvement in Epstein’s crimes.
The Justice Department rushed to Trump’s defense on Tuesday, writing in a post on social media that some files “contain untrue and sensationalist claims” made against Trump, adding the claims are “unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already.”
