Donald Trump has been travelling on Jeffrey Epstein’s old private jet, now owned by a Republican donor and painted with the slogan “Trump 2024”.
The Republican presidential candidate was tracked as he landed in Aspen, Colorado, in the blue-painted Gulfstream G550 jet last week, and his Secret Service team was photographed disembarking.
Although the plane now has a different tail number, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) records show it is the plane Jeffrey Epstein was on when he was arrested at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey in 2019.
The plane is now owned by top California Republican Party donor and real estate developer James Previti, 55, who has donated nearly $1.3 million to Republican causes according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records.
Previti did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com’s questions, including whether Trump or his campaign reimbursed her for the luxury trip, or whether the flights and the “Trump 2024” advertising on the side of the plane were registered with the FEC as in-kind political donations.
Donald Trump has been travelling on Jeffrey Epstein’s old private jet, now owned by a Republican donor and painted with the slogan ‘Trump 2024’
Epstein’s old plane with Trump 2024 emblazoned on it was photographed at Aspen Airport on Saturday
The plane Trump was traveling on is the same one Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on when he landed at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey in 2019.
DailyMail.com revealed in July 2020 that the plane was being sold from Epstein’s estate, with the price listed at $16.9 million.
It was eventually sold to Previti’s company for an estimated price of $10.6 million.
At the time, aircraft sales company Equus published photographs of the late pedophile billionaire’s 2008 Gulfstream G550, showing the beige and cream leather seats, mahogany-finished surfaces and plush royal blue carpet.
The plane is now owned by top California Republican donor and real estate developer James Previti, 55, who has donated nearly $1.3 million to Republican causes.
Coral Springs, Florida-based Equus said the plane had flown 5,747 hours and made 1,348 landings, describing it as an aircraft with “an astonishing 16-passenger interchangeable configuration” and two Rolls-Royce engines.
According to flight data compiled by aviation database ADSBExchange, the Gulfstream aircraft made 107 flights between January 2018 and June 2019.
Epstein owned at least three planes: a large Boeing 727 (infamously dubbed the “Lolita Express” by reporters), a Gulfstream IV, and the G550 that Trump has been using.
The former president appeared in the flight logs of the ‘Lolita Express’, showing that he traveled with Epstein seven times in the 1990s.
She was also filmed partying with him at Mar-a-Lago in 1992.
In 2002, before public allegations of child sexual abuse by Epstein surfaced, Trump told New York Magazine: “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years,” adding that he was a “terrific guy.”
“It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are rather young,” the former president told the magazine.
Epstein owned at least three planes: a large Boeing 727, infamously known to journalists as the “Lolita Express,” a Gulfstream IV, and the G550 that Trump has been using.
Though the plane now has a different tail number, Federal Aviation Administration records show it is the aircraft once owned by infamous and late billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein — the same one he was arrested in at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey in 2019.
Trump used Epstein’s old plane to fly him to a fundraising dinner in Aspen, Colorado, on Saturday.
A woman who goes by the name “Katie Johnson” accused Trump in a lawsuit filed in 2016 of raping her in the 1990s at a party at Epstein’s New York home. A federal judge dismissed the case.
Epstein’s alleged victim, Sarah Ransome, claimed in emails to a New York Post columnist that Trump was involved in Epstein’s sex trafficking scheme, but retracted the allegations in a later email.
Trump spokesman Steven Cheung released a statement in January saying that “these baseless allegations have been completely retracted because they are simply false and have no merit.”
Victims of Epstein’s abuse have filed multimillion-dollar claims against the pedophile’s estate, which sold off their assets after he died in August 2019 in what authorities said was a jailhouse suicide while awaiting trial on child sex trafficking charges in New York.
DailyMail.com tracked down the G550’s new ownership using FAA and California business records.
Epstein’s plane had a tail number that included his initials, N212JE, with the serial number 5173.
The tail number was changed to N550GP in 2020 and the aircraft was sold to a shell company called N550GP LLC, incorporated in December 2020 at the Ontario, California, offices of Previti’s homebuilding company, Frontier Enterprises.
California company documents show the shell company’s registered agent at the time was a man named Julian Gonzalez, but a 2022 filing revealed Previti was the CEO.
Previti’s political donations have included $100,000 to the McCarthy Victory Fund on July 7, 2023, and $25,000 to the San Bernardino County Republican Central Committee last week.
The plane was first declared airworthy in March 2008. Federal Aviation Administration records show it was registered to Epstein’s company, JEGE LLC, in August 2013.
Previti’s plane was seen landing in Aspen for a Trump campaign fundraiser on Saturday.
Tickets for the event started at $25,000 and went up to $500,000 for a spot on the “host committee,” which included a “roundtable, photo op and VIP dinner seating” with the former and potentially future president.
The campaign also hosted an even more exclusive event in Big Sky, Montana on Friday, August 9.
Tickets for the event started at $100,000 per person, including a photo and dinner, and rose to $844,600 to be on the “host committee,” which included a “roundtable” with the former and future president.
Among the hosts were North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (whom Trump had considered as a running mate before settling on Ohio Sen. JD Vance) and his wife Kathryn.
Flight tracking websites show Previti’s plane flew from Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport near Big Sky to Aspen via Jackson Hole, Wyoming, late Friday night, then from Aspen to Ontario via Denver on Saturday night.
Plane spotters and Democratic supporters also shared the plane’s movements and ownership history on social media.