'Directly implicates Trump': DOJ releases — then pulls — 'bombshell' Epstein letter online

The Justice Department released a letter allegedly written by Jeffrey Epstein Monday that it then quickly removed from its website — and its contents, some critics say, “directly implicates" President Donald Trump.

The letter was postmarked “just days after Epstein died” in 2019, according to the progressive media company MeidasTouch. It was addressed to Larry Nassar, the convicted serial sex offender who was sentenced to 60 years in prison for abusing hundreds of children and young women.

In the alleged letter, Epstein addresses Nassar as “L.N.,” and makes a startling reference to “our president,” which would have been Trump at the time it was allegedly written.

“As you know by now, I have taken the ‘short route’ home. Good luck! We shared one thing… our love & caring for young ladies at the hope they'd reach their full potential,” the letter reads.

“Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to ‘grab ------,’ whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system. Life is unfair. Yours, J. Epstein”

The letter was first uploaded by the DOJ on Monday, but was quickly removed, with the two web addresses hosting the letter — one showing its envelope and another its contents – now turning up an “error” message reading “AccessDenied.” However, the DOJ appeared to have re-uploaded another copy of the letter and the envelope on its website, albeit under a different file names.

The mention of “our president” in the alleged letter left many onlookers stunned, including Micah Erfan, co-founder of the liberal media network The Siren, who called it a “bombshell” and argued that the “newly released Epstein letter directly implicates Trump.”

Others, like the polling aggregator “Polling USA,” argued that the stunning revelation could pose the greatest threat to Trump’s presidency seen yet.

“It might be the beginning of the end for the big man honestly,” an online post from Polling USA’s X account reads, posted Tuesday morning.

The letter’s existence was previously reported on by The Guardian in 2023, which wrote that it was “found returned to sender in the jail’s mail room weeks after Epstein’s death." The Guardian was unable to obtain a copy of the letter.