Donald Trump’s signature Boeing 757 – typically referred to as Trump Drive One – skilled mechanical points final week and was grounded. The airplane the Trump marketing campaign used as an alternative was none apart from a Gulfstream as soon as owned by Jeffrey Epstein. Sure, that Jeffrey Epstein – the kid intercourse trafficker and disgraced financier.
Trump flew from Bozeman, Montana (the place his 757 first landed) to Jackson Gap, Wyoming and Aspen, Colorado to make marketing campaign stops aboard the cursed jet, in response to the New York Occasions. Marketing campaign officers say they had been unaware of the jet’s historical past, and I’m inclined to imagine them, however Jesus Christ, what a fuck up that is.
Apparently, the marketing campaign referred to as its constitution jet vendor – Personal Jet Companies Group – after the mechanical concern to get a airplane that would ferry the previous president. They offered the Gulfstream. An official instructed the Occasions that the marketing campaign had been utilizing this vendor for years and that it could take steps sooner or later to keep away from utilizing the airplane. Yeah, man, I hope so.
Right here’s extra from the New York Occasions on the doubtful historical past of Epstein’s airplane and Trump’s relationship with the kid intercourse trafficker:
Over the weekend, viral social media posts highlighted the obvious connection to Mr. Epstein. A report by The Miami Herald on Monday matched the constitution airplane’s tail quantity to a Gulfstream jet as soon as owned by Mr. Epstein.
Mr. Epstein’s planes have lengthy been a supply of public curiosity; he was recognized to journey with high-profile passengers, together with Invoice Clinton, Mr. Trump, Prince Andrew and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who’s now working for president as an unbiased candidate. Mr. Epstein additionally introduced younger girls — and women, in response to some who accused Mr. Epstein of intercourse trafficking — to entertain visitors on board.
Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein had routinely crossed paths over the many years, attending most of the identical social occasions and being photographed collectively within the Nineties and early 2000s. Mr. Trump spoke enthusiastically about their relationship within the years earlier than Mr. Epstein pleaded responsible to expenses of illegal intercourse with minors. In 2002, Mr. Trump instructed New York journal: “I’ve recognized Jeff for 15 years. Terrific man.”
Talking within the Oval Workplace in 2019, Mr. Trump distanced himself from Mr. Epstein, saying that he’d “had a falling out with him.”
“I haven’t spoken to him in 15 years,” he added. “I used to be not a fan of his, that I can let you know.”
The Miami Herald additionally spoke with the Trump marketing campaign, and so they had been instructed the airplane was solely used for that single day. Trump arrived on the Aspen-Pitkin Nation Airport within the white and blue Gulfstream – tail quantity N550GP – round 4:45 p.m. on August 10. He was attending a fundraiser hosted by the Trump 47 committee, which sports activities Save America and the RNC.
The airplane was registered in 2018 by one among Epstein’s corporations based mostly within the U.S. Virgin Islands. It needs to be famous that this was not the notorious “Lolita Categorical” which Epstein changed round 2017. It has since been destroyed, in response to the Herald.
