On December 9, 2015, Jeffrey Epstein emailed New York Times reporter Landon Thomas Jr. and offered him "photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen." That email, EFTA02478352, is one of dozens of documents now assembled from the Jmail archive and the FBI interview memos the DOJ initially withheld from the EFTA release.

This episode traces the complete documentary record of the Trump-Epstein relationship: the Mar-a-Lago ban after Epstein took a 15-year-old home, Trump's refusal to comment, Maxwell and Epstein's strategy to use employment records to discredit Virginia Giuffre, and the FBI memos released on March 5, 2026 after NPR revealed they had been removed.

Sources for this episode are available at: https://epsteinfiles.fm/?episode=bn15

About The Epstein Files

The Epstein Files is an AI-generated podcast analyzing the 3.5 million pages released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA). All claims are grounded in primary source documents.

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