{"id":1069778,"date":"2021-11-30T18:29:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T23:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1069778"},"modified":"2021-11-30T18:29:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T23:29:12","slug":"jeffrey-epsteins-former-pilot-testifies-clinton-trump-flew-aboard-epsteins-private-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jeffrey-epsteins-former-pilot-testifies-clinton-trump-flew-aboard-epsteins-private-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Epstein&#039;s Former Pilot Testifies Clinton, Trump Flew Aboard Epstein&#039;s Private Plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjeffrey-epsteins-former-pilot-testifies-clinton-trump-flew-aboard-epsteins-private-plane%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1069778&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1224326172-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 A longtime pilot for Jeffrey Epstein told a jury Tuesday at Ghislaine Maxwell\u2019s sex trafficking trial that he never saw evidence of sexual activity on planes as he flew his boss and others \u2014 including a prince and ex-presidents \u2014 for nearly three decades.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence Paul Visoski Jr., the trial\u2019s first witness, was responding to questions by a defense lawyer when he acknowledged that he never encountered sexual activity aboard two jets he piloted on roughly 1,000 trips between 1991 and 2019.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>He said he stayed in the cockpit for the majority of flights but would sometimes emerge to go to the bathroom or get coffee.<\/p>\n<p>Although he was called as a witness by the government, Visoski\u2019s testimony seemed to aid the defense of Maxwell as he answered questions posed by Maxwell attorney Christian Everdell about what he saw when he straightened up the aircraft after a flight.<\/p>\n<p>Visoski didn\u2019t hesitate when Everdell asked him if he ever saw sexual activity when he went for coffee or found sex toys when he cleaned up.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cNever,\u201d the pilot answered to both questions. He said he never saw used condoms either.<\/p>\n<p>And when he was asked if he ever saw sex acts with underage females, he answered: \u201cAbsolutely not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pilot said Epstein never warned him to stay in the cockpit during flights and also encouraged him to use a bathroom near the rear of the plane that would require him to walk past the plane\u2019s couches.<\/p>\n<p>He said he never saw any children on his planes who were not accompanied by their parents.<\/p>\n<p>When Everdell asked him about a teenager who prosecutors say was sexually abused by Epstein before she became an adult, Visoski said he believed she was \u201cmature\u201d when he was introduced to her.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>He also acknowledged that Clinton was a passenger on a few flights in the 2000s and he had piloted planes with Britain\u2019s Prince Andrew, the late U.S. Sen. John Glenn of Ohio \u2014 the first American to orbit Earth \u2014 and former presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, \u201cmore than once.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Visoski said Epstein gave him 40 acres of land to build a house on the financier\u2019s New Mexico property and paid for his daughters\u2019 college education.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Epstein\u2019s plane was derisively nicknamed \u201cThe Lolita Express\u201d by some in the media after allegations emerged that he had used it to fly teenage girls to his private island, his New Mexico ranch, and his New York City townhouse.<\/p>\n<p>Flight records, made public as part of civil litigation, also showed that Epstein had used the plane to fly celebrities, influential academics, and politicians around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Luminaries who flew with Epstein have had to beat back speculation that their presence on the flights meant they must have been aware of the millionaire\u2019s crimes. Clinton, like others who took rides from Epstein, has said he was unaware of any misconduct.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Maxwell, 59, traveled for decades in circles that put her in contact with accomplished and wealthy people before her July 2020 arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Asked by Assistant U.S. Attorney Maurene Comey where Maxwell stood in the hierarchy of Epstein\u2019s world, Visoski said Maxwell \u201cwas the Number 2.\u201d He added that \u201cEpstein was the big Number 1.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The testimony supports what Assistant U.S. Attorney Lara Pomerantz told jurors in her opening statement Monday when she said Epstein and Maxwell were \u201cpartners in crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pomerantz said Maxwell recruited and groomed girls for Epstein to sexually abuse from 1994 to at least 2004.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Article\" data-key=\"article\" readability=\"37\">\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-211 Component-p-0-2-202\">Maxwell has pleaded not guilty and one of her lawyers said in an opening statement Monday that she\u2019s being made a scapegoat for Epstein, who killed himself in his Manhattan jail cell at age 66 in August 2019 as he awaited a sex trafficking trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-211 Component-p-0-2-202\">Visoski testified briefly on Monday before beginning Tuesday on the witness stand.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 A longtime pilot for Jeffrey Epstein told a jury Tuesday at Ghislaine Maxwell\u2019s sex trafficking trial that he never saw evidence of sexual activity on planes &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1069778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}