Jeffrey Epstein appeared to make a darkish joke about suicide in a letter to disgraced USA Gymnastics coach Larry Nassar — which additionally included an obvious reference to President Trump.
The brief, handwritten observe was within the newest batch of information, made up of greater than 29,000 paperwork associated to the Epstein investigation, launched on Tuesday by the Justice Division. It was postmarked for Aug. 13, 2019, three days after Epstein was discovered unresponsive inside his cell at New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Heart, the place he was being held on federal sex-trafficking prices.
Trump was additionally president presently, although he isn’t explicitly named within the observe.
“Dear L. N.,” the letter begins. “As you know by now, I have taken the ‘short route’ home. Good luck! We shared one thing … our love and caring for young ladies at the hope they’d reach their full potential.”
“Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls,” it continues. “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.”
It concludes: “Yours, J. Epstein.”
Jeffrey Epstein’s letter to disgraced USA Gymnastics coach Larry Nassar. (Home Oversight Committee)
The letter can be talked about in one other file, an FBI type dated July 31, 2020, with a request to “perform a handwriting analysis” so as affirm the script belonged to Epstein. It’s not clear whether or not such an examination came about. It’s additionally unclear why Epstein was permitted to put in writing the observe and why it was posted after his loss of life.
In 2018, Nassar was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in jail after pleading responsible to seven counts of first-degree prison sexual conduct for assaulting younger athletes underneath the guise of offering medical remedy whereas he labored for each USA Gymnastics and Michigan State College.
Larry Nassar stands as he’s sentenced by Decide Janice Cunningham for 3 counts of prison sexual assault in Eaton County Circuit Court docket on February 5, 2018 in Charlotte, Michigan. (Picture by Scott Olson/Getty Pictures)
Upon releasing the trove of paperwork, the Justice Division on Tuesday emphasised that a few of the materials embrace “untrue and sensationalist” claims about Trump, which had been beforehand submitted to the FBI forward of the 2020 election.
“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,” reads a discover from the DOJ. “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.”
