Late child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein wrote a letter to fellow serial child molester Larry Nassar just before his death that said that Donald Trump “shares our love of young, nubile girls.”

The damning letter was uploaded by the Department of Justice (DOJ) as part of its limited release of documents associated with the grand jury investigation into Epstein. The DOJ has been heavily redacting the documents it is releasing, possibly to protect the president and other high-ranking Republicans and donors.

The DOJ quickly removed the letter from its website, but not before some people saved an image of it. People visiting the webpage on which the letter previously appeared now get an error message.

Epstein died in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges connected to sex trafficking minors. In the letter to Nassar – the infamous Michigan State University doctor who was sentenced to 60 years in federal prison in 2017 after allegedly sexually abusing at least 265 young women and girls and who was convicted on charges that included possession of child pornography – Epstein wrote that he chose to take “the ‘short route’ home,” likely a reference to ending his own life.

Epstein told Nassar that the two men “shared one thing… our love & caring for young ladies and the hope they’d reach their full potential.”

“Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls,” Epstein continued in the 2019 letter. “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,” Epstein concluded.

The letter’s existence was reported on in 2023 as part of a trove of more than 4,000 pages of documents related to Epstein’s prison records. The Guardian, at the time, described the letter as being “found returned to sender in the jail’s mail room weeks after Epstein’s death.”

“It appeared he mailed it out and it was returned to him,” an investigator noted at the time in an email. “I am not sure if I should open it or if we should hand it over to anyone?”

But the full contents of the letter were not known until now.

Update: The Department of Justice is saying that the letter was fake.

“This fake letter serves as a reminder that just because a document is released by the Department of Justice does not make the allegations or claims within the document factual,” the DOJ posted to X. “Nevertheless, the DOJ will continue to release all material required by law.”

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