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Our investigations correspondent Andy Verity is among the BBC team combing through this enormous data dump by the DOJ.
He's been telling my colleague Tim Franks about the latest revelations.
The thing that leapt out at me first was an email which indicates that Donald Trump travelled many more times on Jeffrey Epstein's private jet than was previously reported.
And it reports that he flew with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell during the time for which they expected to bring charges against her.
Now, of course, his presence on the flights doesn't indicate wrongdoing.
This email was sent on the 7th of January 2020 when he was still in his first term of office.
Donald Trump is from an assistant US attorney on the team investigating Epstein, who tells colleagues that flight records received the previous day reflect that the former president, the current president, travelled on Jeffrey Epstein's jet many more times than previously reported.
In particular, the email says the US president is listed as a passenger on at least eight flights between 1993 and 96, including at least four where Ghislaine Maxwell was present and another on which the only three passengers were Epstein, Trump and
and a 20-year-old woman whose name's been redacted.
And on two other flights, two of the passengers were women who would be possible witnesses in a Maxwell case, the email says, adding that the team didn't want any of this to be a surprise down the road.
Now, Donald Trump has consistently denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein.
We've approached him for comment.
Haven't got anything specifically on...
on this, but the DOJ has said that 30,000 documents have now been released, and it says that some of the documents which pertain to a time just before the 2020 election contain inaccurate sensationalist claims.
There's also some other stuff here, though, about someone closer to home.
There is this email from somebody who signs himself a...
Somebody sends himself a from Balmoral, Tim, yeah, who in the email is asking Ghislaine Maxwell for inappropriate friends, in quotation marks.
This is what they show.
So there's an email sent to Epstein's associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, from an email address titled The Invisible Man, sent on the 16th of August 2001, saying, I'm up here at Balmoral summer camp for the royal family.
Balmoral being the Scottish castle where the royal family head to.