Jeffrey Epstein’s Brother Accuses President Trump of Delaying File Release to Hide ‘Things He Doesn’t Want People to See’

President Donald Trump’s long-delayed release of the Justice Department’s Epstein files has reignited old questions — including from inside the disgraced financier’s own family.

Mark Epstein, brother of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, told CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront on Wednesday night that he believes Trump “dragged his feet” for reasons far beyond politics.

“It’s obvious to anyone paying attention,” Mark said. “There are things in those files he doesn’t want the public to see. That seems pretty clear to me.”

After months of bipartisan demands, Trump finally signed the bill authorizing the release of Epstein-related FBI and DOJ materials — announcing it in an all-caps Truth Social post: “I HAVE JUST SIGNED THE BILL TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.”

The Department of Justice confirmed that roughly 50,000 pages of documents have already been turned over to Congress. The rest are expected to be unclassified within 30 days.

Trump, now 79, immediately sought to distance himself from Epstein, claiming — yet again — that it was former President Bill Clinton who had “26 flights” aboard Epstein’s private jet.

But Mark Epstein says the story isn’t so simple.

“They used to fly in each other’s planes,” he told Burnett. “People say Donald was on Jeffrey’s plane maybe seven times. Fine — but has anyone checked Donald’s own flight logs from back then? Jeffrey told me more than once he flew with Trump, up and down the coast. Everyone knew they were friends.”

Trump and Epstein’s friendship dates back to the 1990s, when both men frequented Palm Beach’s exclusive circles. Photographs show them laughing together at Mar-a-Lago parties — years before Trump would insist he “threw [Epstein] out” of his club for being “a sick pervert.”

Mark Epstein says that claim doesn’t hold up.

“Steve Bannon was recording interviews with Jeffrey back then,” he said. “Jeffrey told him, on tape, that he stopped hanging out with Trump because Trump was a crook. That’s a direct quote. Jeffrey wasn’t shy about it.”

Perhaps the most startling claim from Mark’s CNN appearance came near the end of the interview.

“Jeffrey told me that after the 2016 election, Trump called him,” Mark said. “It was like, ‘Can you believe this?’ Neither of them thought he’d actually win. Trump was surprised himself.”

The White House fired back swiftly. Press secretary Abigail Jackson dismissed the remarks as “baseless” and tried to pivot to unrelated media controversies.

“Instead of amplifying conspiracy theories,” Jackson said in a statement, “maybe the press should focus on their own journalists’ correspondence with Epstein.”

Mark Epstein also revisited his brother’s death, which officially remains ruled as suicide by hanging inside a federal jail cell in August 2019. Initially, Mark said he accepted that explanation.

“When I first heard, I didn’t doubt it,” he recalled. “He didn’t have kids, our parents were gone. I thought maybe he made that decision himself.”

But the following day’s autopsy changed everything.

“When the medical examiner said it looked more like a homicide, that’s when I thought, ‘Whoa, what’s going on here?’”

Mark argued that Jeffrey had every reason to stay alive.

“He had a bail hearing coming up,” he said. “He was about to put up what would’ve been the highest bail in U.S. history. If he got it, he’d be in his mansion with guards and cameras — not exactly prison. Why would he kill himself before that hearing?”

Epstein’s 2019 death — and the subsequent disappearance of critical jail footage — fueled years of speculation about who might have wanted him silenced. The financier’s ties spanned politics, royalty, and business elites, including Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, and Donald Trump himself.

Now, with Trump back in the White House and forced to open the vaults, Democrats are already hinting that the files could shed new light on old connections.

“Every administration has said it wants transparency,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren in a statement Thursday morning. “Let’s see if President Trump finally delivers it.”

As the countdown begins for the DOJ’s 30-day deadline, one thing is clear: Epstein’s ghost still lingers — and it’s coming back to haunt the most powerful man in America.