A postcard allegedly written by Jeffrey Epstein and sent to serial child molester Larry Nassar just days before his 2019 suicide claimed that ‘our president’ loves ‘young, nubile girls.’
While he was not explicitly named in the note, Donald Trump was serving his first term in the White House at the time. The Department of Justice has subsequently claimed the letter is fake.
The letter emerged on Monday night, when the Department of Justice (DOJ) shared one of the disgraced financier’s alleged last correspondences before he was found dead in his cell at New York’s Metropolitan Correction Center on August 10, 2019.
The letter was addressed and mailed to Nassar – the former USA Olympic doctor responsible for the biggest sexual abuse scandal in the history of American sports – days after Epstein’s death.
‘As you know by now, I have taken the “short route” home,’ Epstein allegedly penned in the handwritten note.
He continued: ‘Good luck! We shared one thing… our love & caring for young ladies at the hope they’d reach their full potential.
‘Our president 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. Life is unfair.’
The postcard was signed ‘Yours, J. Epstein’ and written to ‘L.N.’, which are Nassar’s initials. Trump has not been accused of wrongdoing in Epstein’s child sex trafficking scandal.
Newly released Epstein files from the Department of Justice have revealed the disgraced financier’s alleged last correspondence before he was found dead in his cell
Epstein’s letter to Larry Nassar, postmarked August 13, 2019, was believed to have been found returned to sender in the New York prison’s mailroom after his death
Donald Trump, Melania Trump, Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in 2000
Nassar is a former USA Olympic doctor who was found guilty of sexual assault in 2017
In a statement released on Tuesday, the Department of Justice claimed to have confirmed the alleged letter from Epstein to Nassar was faked.
‘The fake letter was received by the jail, and flagged for the FBI at the time,’ the statement read.
The DOJ said that the FBI determined it was ‘fake’ because ‘the writing does not appear to match Jeffrey Epstein’s; The letter was postmarked three days after Epstein’s death out of Northern Virginia, when he was jailed in New York; And the return address did not list the jail where Epstein was held and did not include his inmate number, which is required for outgoing mail.’
‘This fake letter serves as a reminder that just because a document is released by the Department of Justice does not make the allegations or claims within the document factual. Nevertheless, the DOJ will continue to release all material required by law,’ the statement concluded.
The alleged letter to Nassar, postmarked August 13, 2019, was believed to have been found returned to sender in the New York prison’s mailroom weeks later.
Nassar was serving in a facility in Sumterville, near Orlando, Florida, at the time of Epstein’s letter. He was moved from a federal prison in Tucson, Arizona, in August 2018, after his lawyers said he was attacked.
The return to sender stamp noted that the recipient was ‘no longer’ at the address.
When contacted about the postcard, which was released without further context, White House officials referred the Daily Mail to an X statement from the DOJ.
‘Some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election,’ it reads.
‘To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already.
‘Nevertheless, out of our commitment to the law and transparency, the DOJ is releasing these documents with the legally required protections for Epstein’s victims.’
Later in the day, the DOJ revised their statement and said they were investigating ‘the validity of the alleged letter.’
They said: ‘The Department of Justice is currently looking into the validity of this alleged letter from Jeffrey Epstein to Larry Nassar and we will follow up as soon as possible. In the meantime, three facts stand out.
‘The postmark on the envelope is Virginia, not New York, where Jeffrey Epstein was jailed at the time.
‘The return address listed the wrong jail where Epstein was held and did not include his inmate number, which is required for outgoing mail.
‘The envelope was processed three days AFTER Epstein’s death.’
Nassar pleaded guilty to obtaining and possessing child pornography and destroying evidence and was sentenced to 60 years in prison in December 2017.
The convicted sex offender abused about 300 athletes under the guise of medical care.
Olympic gold medalists Simone Biles, 28, and McKayla Maroney, 30, were among his many young victims.
‘He abused my trust, he abused my body and he left scars on my psyche that may never go away,’ Maroney wrote in her heartbreaking victim impact statement, which was read aloud in court during Nassar’s trial.
‘I don’t want another young gymnast, or Olympic athlete, or any individual to experience the horror that I and hundreds of others have endured before, during and continuing to this day in the wake of the Larry Nassar abuse,’ Biles said in a 2021 testimony before Congress.
Epstein killed himself in prison on August 10, 2019, before the letter was postmarked
Trump has not been accused of any wrongdoing in Epstein’s child sex trafficking scandal
While this is the first time the postcard was shared with the public amid the DOJ’s sweeping release of Epstein-related evidence, the Associated Press reported on its existence in 2023.
‘It appeared he mailed it out and it was returned back to him,’ the investigator who discovered the postcard told a prison official at the time, per AP.
‘I am not sure if I should open it or should we hand it over to anyone?’
Trump has repeatedly shot down accusations of being involved in Epstein’s criminal activities.
But a trove of evidence has alleged that Trump flew on the pedophile’s private jet ‘many more times than has been previously reported,’ including one journey with a 20-year-old woman.
Among the roughly 8,000 new documents is an email from a New York assistant US attorney, which states that Trump was listed as a passenger on eight flights between 1993 and 1996.
On at least four of these trips, Epstein’s co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell was also present. Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence for her role in the sickening scheme.
The email reads: ‘For your situational awareness, wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump travelled on Epstein’s private jet many more times than previously has been reported (or that we were aware), including during the period we would expect to charge in a Maxwell case.
‘On one flight in 1993, he and Epstein are the only two listed passengers; on another, the only three passengers are Epstein, Trump and then-20-year-old [redacted].’
Olympians McKayla Maroney (left) and Simone Biles (right) were two of Nassar’s victims
The DOJ has released hundreds of thousands of files of investigative evidence from Epstein’s estate
On Friday, the initially set deadline for the government to share the Epstein files, the DOJ released about 300,000 documents.
Congress voted to share the files with the public. Trump, who initially opposed the release, signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act on November 19 and gave the Department of Justice a 30-day timeline for the release.
But top brass at Trump’s DOJ admit they were unable to meet the deadline and that hundreds of thousands of documents remain.
Epstein survivors and lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle have criticized the Trump administration for its handling of the files.
Skeptics have also called out how heavily redacted and context-lacking the evidence has been.