Donald Trump has been riding on Jeffrey Epstein’s old private jet – now owned by a Republican donor and painted with the slogan ‘Trump 2024’.
The GOP presidential candidate was tracked landing in Aspen, Colorado, in the blue-painted Gulfstream G550 jet last week, and his Secret Service detail was photographed disembarking.
Though the jet now has a different tail number, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) records show it is the plane that Jeffrey Epstein was on when he was arrested at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey in 2019.
The plane is now owned by top California GOP donor and real estate developer James Previti, 55, who has given almost $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 him for the luxury travel, or whether the flights and ‘Trump 2024’ advertising on the side of the plane were registered with the FEC as in-kind political donations.
DailyMail.com revealed in July 2020 that the jet was being sold from Epstein’s estate, listed for $16.9 million.
It eventually sold to Previti’s company for a reported $10.6 million.
Photographs of the late billionaire pedophile’s 2008 Gulfstream G550 were posted at the time by aircraft sales firm Equus, showing the beige and cream leather seats, mahogany-finished surfaces and plush royal blue carpet.
Coral Springs, Florida-based Equus said the jet had flown 5,747 hours and made 1,348 landings, describing it as having a ‘stunning 16 passenger interchangeable configuration’ and twin Rolls-Royce engines.
According to flight data collected by aviation database ADSBExchange, the Gulfstream jet flew 107 flights between January 2018 and June 2019.
Epstein owned at least three jets: a large Boeing 727 – dubbed infamously by journalists as the ‘Lolita Express’ – a Gulfstream IV, and the G550 that Trump has been using.
The former president famously appeared on the flight logs of the ‘Lolita Express,’ showing he traveled with Epstein seven times in the 1990s.
He was also videoed at a party with him at Mar-a-Lago in 1992.
Trump told New York Magazine in 2002, before public allegations of child sex abuse by Epstein emerged: ‘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 on the younger side,’ the former president told the magazine.
A woman going by the name ‘Katie Johnson’ accused Trump in a 2016 lawsuit of raping her in the 1990s at a party at Epstein’s New York home. A federal judge dismissed the case.
Alleged Epstein victim Sarah Ransome claimed in emails to a New York Post columnist that Trump was involved in Epstein’s sex trafficking scheme, but recanted the allegations in a later email.
Trump spokesman Steven Cheung released a statement in January saying that ‘these baseless accusations have been fully retracted because they are simply false and have no merit.’
Multi-million-dollar claims have been made by Epstein abuse victims against the pedophile’s estate, which sold off his assets after he died in August 2019 in what authorities said was a jail suicide while he awaited a child sex trafficking trial in New York.
DailyMail.com traced the new ownership of the G550 using FAA and California business records.
Epstein’s jet had a tail number including his initials, N212JE, with serial number 5173.
The tail number was changed to N550GP in 2020, and the plane 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 that the registered agent for the shell company at the time was a man called 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 just last week.
Previti’s jet was spotted landing in Aspen for a Trump campaign fundraiser held on Saturday.
Tickets for the event started at $25,000, rising to $500,000 to be on the ‘host committee’, which included a ‘roundtable, photo & VIP dinner seating’ with the former and potentially future president.
The campaign also organized 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 hopeful president.
Hosts included North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum – whoo Trump had considered as a running mate before he settled on Ohio Senator J.D. Vance – and his wife Kathryn.
Flight tracking websites show Previti’s jet flew from Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport near Big Sky to Aspen via Jackson Hole, Wyoming, late on Friday night, then from Aspen to Ontario via Denver on Saturday evening.
Airplane spotters and Democrat supporters also shared the plane’s movements and ownership history on social media.