Jeffrey Epstein’s brother, Mark, tells CNN’s Erin Burnett about his brother’s “very close” friendship with Donald Trump in the 1990s. He also describes how he found out about his brother’s legal trouble in 2006, before he pleaded guilty to a sex trafficking charge involving an underage girl.

Jeffrey Epstein's brother recounted the close friendship between Epstein and Donald Trump, describing them as good friends who spent significant time together in the 1990s. He recalled a specific incident on a flight in 1999 where Epstein asked Trump a personal question, highlighting the familiarity and comfort between the two men.

The brother also discussed when he first became aware of Epstein's legal issues, stating that Epstein informed him directly in 2006 about his involvement with underage girls. He emphasized that Epstein wanted him to hear about the situation firsthand rather than through the media.

Brother says a joke indicates how close Epstein was to Trump

You know from what you know from what you saw how close was your brother to Donald Trump They were very close they were good friends Jeffrey used to sometimes tell me things that Donald said that were funny I know Donald was in Jeff's office a lot back in the 90s It's documented that Donald flew on Jeff's plane a number of times. I don't know if they ever checked, but I know Jeff flew on Donald's plane Also, I don't know if they've ever looked at his flight logs And they were good friends. I flew on Jeff's plane. It's known. I was on the plane in 1999 Flying up from Florida and Donald was with us. Yeah, and they were all joking around. They were good friends So you tell me about that? I know there was there was something on that flight that you remember about your brother and Trump. What is it? well, it was a funny thing when we're talking and Well stick a pin in that a couple weeks or a week before that flight I was talking to Jeffrey and he told me that he was talking to Donald and he asked Donald How can you sleep with so many married women and Donald's answer was because it's so wrong Now amongst guys, it was a funny line. And then well when we were on the plane a week or two later Jeffrey asked Donald the same question. I know we did that for my benefit It's so that I could hear Donald say it and Jeffrey asked him So many married women and Donald said because it's so wrong now, it's a funny line But the answer is not the poignant part of the story The question is the poignant part because for Jeffrey to ask him that question number one He would have to know that Donald slept with a lot of married women. So And we probably got that information from Donald That's not the kind of question you ask a casual acquaintance You know, how can you sleep with so many married women? That's a question you ask a good friend that you can get away with asking those kind of questions So that gives you an idea of how friendly they were. When did your brother First tell you that he was in legal trouble. When did you know? Anything about what he was doing? It was about 2006 when he first got into trouble, you know, it's known Prior to Jeffrey's death, you know, I hadn't seen him for seven years Although we were always in touch, you know communication with telephone or emails but we just never got together and for the 12 years prior to that period of time from like 2004 until 2008. We only got together maybe a half a dozen times or so, but we were always in contact and in 2006 Jeffrey asked me to come up to his place uptown He wanted to talk to me, so I was uptown I stopped by I'm not uptown all that much back then I live downtown and I sort of joke. I said to go above 14th Street. I need a visa But um, so I went to talk to him and that's when he told me that he was getting in trouble They're being with girls that were too young He said he was stupid But he wanted me to hear it from him as opposed to hearing it on the news or something And that's when I first found out 2006

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