HARRISBURG (TNS) — If you have checked in on social media this week, you might have seen the posts about former president Donald Trump flying on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane recently.
Does not seem like it could be true, right?
Nobody, especially someone running for president, would want to have their name associated with Epstein right now. But it turns out, according to the Miami Herald, Trump did, in fact, fly last weekend on a blue Gulfstream jet formerly owned by the deceased sex trafficker. The site said Trump used the plane to fly to “several campaign fundraisers,” over the weekend.
So, what’s the story here?
Trump and Epstein did know one another, and per the Miami Herald, the former president flew on Epstein’s plane six times from 1993 to 1997. That said, per the Herald, none of the documents involved in the Epstein case have thus far “credibly implicated” Trump with being involved in any of his crimes.
And it appears he ended up on Epstein’s former plane by simple luck of the draw last week. The site said that after Trump had to land in Billings last week because of a mechanical issue with his plane, he took a charter to Bozeman for his rally on Friday. It said he then switched to the larger chartered Gulfstream.
“The campaign had no awareness that the charter plane had been owned by Mr. Epstein,” a spokeswoman for Trump told the Herald. “We heard about the former owner through the media.”
The Trump campaign said the plane was used for just one day.
That one day was enough to get the Trump-Epstein connection talk churning again on social media, though, so while it appears to be an odd coincidence it was also probably not well received by the former president.