Over the weekend, Donald Trump traveled to campaign events on a private jet plane previously owned by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein . The Air Current , an aviation publication, reported the news on Sunday, and The Miami Herald later confirmed it. The former president had been on board his own private plane while on the way to a campaign event in in Bozeman, Montana, when the jet landed in Billings (two hours east of Bozeman) due to mechanical issues, a spokeswoman for Trump’s campaign told the Herald .
After Trump and some of his staff took a charter to a Friday rally, the following day, the former president hopped on a Gulfstream with a serial number matching a plane previously owned by the late Epstein. Trump used the plane to travel to a fundraiser in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and then Aspen and Denver. The Aspen Daily News reported that Trump, who was scheduled to appear at a fundraiser hosted by the Trump 47 Committee, was on board the Gulfstream that landed at the Aspen-Pitkin County Airport on Saturday.
The local paper noted that the charter’s tail number, G-550, matched a plane with the same serial number as Epstein’s former Gulfstream jet. According to the Herald , the plane was registered in 2018 to one of Epstein’s companies based in the U.S.
Virgin Islands, per Flight Aware. Trump’s spokeswoman said that a vendor often used by the campaign had commissioned the charter. “The campaign had no awareness that the charter plane had been owned by Mr.
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