Jeffrey Epstein appeared to make a dark joke about suicide in a letter to disgraced USA Gymnastics coach Larry Nassar — which also included an apparent reference to President Trump.
The short, handwritten note was in the latest batch of files, made up of more than 29,000 documents related to the Epstein investigation, released on Tuesday by the Justice Department. It was postmarked for Aug. 13, 2019, three days after Epstein was found unresponsive inside his cell at New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center, where he was being held on federal sex-trafficking charges.
Trump was also president at this time, though he is not explicitly named in the note.
“Dear L. N.,” the letter begins. “As you know by now, I have taken the ‘short route’ home. Good luck! We shared one thing … our love and caring for young ladies at the hope they’d reach their full potential.”
“Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls,” it continues. “When a young beauty walked by he loved to ‘grab snatch,’ whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system. Life is unfair.”
It concludes: “Yours, J. Epstein.”
The letter is also mentioned in another file, an FBI form dated July 31, 2020, with a request to “perform a handwriting analysis” in order confirm the script belonged to Epstein. It’s not clear whether such an examination took place. It’s also unclear why Epstein was permitted to write the note and why its delivery to Nassar was delayed.
In 2018, Nassar was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison after pleading guilty to seven counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct for assaulting young athletes under the guise of providing medical treatment while he worked for both USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University.
Upon releasing the trove of documents, the Justice Department on Tuesday emphasized that some of the material include “untrue and sensationalist” claims about Trump, which were previously submitted to the FBI ahead of the 2020 election.
“To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already,” reads a notice from the DOJ. “Nevertheless, out of our commitment to the law and transparency, the DOJ is releasing these documents with the legally required protections for Epstein’s victims.”
