In July, a Florida judge released transcripts of grand jury testimony from a 2006 investigation that accused late millionaire and financier Jeffrey Epstein of sexually assaulting numerous underage teenage girls at his Palm Beach, Florida, mansion. The grand jury investigation was the first of many by law enforcement over the past two decades into Epstein’s rape and sex trafficking of teenagers — and how his ties to the rich and the powerful seem to have allowed him to avoid prison or a serious jail term for over a decade. After the records, which included testimony transcripts, were released to the public, several people on social media claimed former President Donald Trump was named in the documents.
Many of the posts include screenshots of what appear to be court records from the 2006 case. “MAGA has been calling for the release of the Epstein files for a long time. Newly released documents allege that, enabled by Epstein, Trump sexually abused children as young as 12 years old.
Read them for yourself,” one post on X says. Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.
) also mentioned the records in remarks to reporters during a press conference on July 9. “Something I’ve heard that doesn’t seem to be being covered are the Epstein files. These files were released.
And, like, Donald Trump is sort of all over this,” Lieu said. Multiple VERIFY readers, including Garry and Shirley, asked our team if these claims are true. Does Donald Trump’s name appear in the latest Jeffrey Epstein.