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In August 2025, a Facebook user who said he was a former Canadian Airlines pilot, claims that this US President Donald Trump’s plane flew to the late financier and condemned sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein on the island at least 37 times.
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Epstein, who died in prison in 2019, owned the Great Islands St. James and Little St. James, part of the US Virgin Islands. Prosecutors claimed Epstein Traffic of minor girls at little St. James to conceal abuse of their victims.
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However, we did not find evidence that the claim to Trump’s aircraft flying to Little St. James was true. We could not check that the Facebook user who made the request actually worked for the Canadian Airlines, a carrier that Air Canada acquired in 2001. Along with the claim, the Facebook user shared a picture of himself, which seems to be a Pilot’s Pilot’s Amazon Maid.
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Disposal of Little St. James, it found that guests had access to the island or by boat or helicopter, as it had no airport, further discredit the claim that one of Trump or the planes of his business would have flew or landed there.
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Trump said in January 2025 that he never visited the island of Epstein.
In August 2025, a claim (archived) online, made by a pilot of retired Canadian airline US President Donald Trump’s plane flew to the late financier and condemned sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein on the island at least 37 times.
Tom Crosby, a Facebook user, who first made a claim on August 6, 2025, writes:
I don’t know, but every flight that flies is followed by ATS. Donald Trump’s aircraft flew to Epstein’s Island at least 37 times, followed by radar. Welcome. All flights everywhere are saved for ten years or more. Retired pilot, first officer of Canadian Airlines Tom Crosby
(Facebook user Tom Crosby)
The claim was popular on Facebook (archived). It also circulates on X (archived), threads (archived) and Bluesky (archived). Snopes readers wrote, asking if the claim was true.
However, we have not found evidence to prove that Crosby’s claim and more current studies are questioning his alleged powers. The commentators of Crosby’s publication pointed out that the pin he wore in the attached photo does not look like one belonging to Canadian airlines, a carrier that Air Canada acquired in 2001. The pin appears to be coming from the Pilot from the Amazon online retailer.
Commentators also asked for more evidence of Crosby’s claim, which we also did not find reported in reputable news sources (archived, archived, archived, archived). The claim would be widely reported if true. Crosby claims that “all flights everywhere are saved for ten years or more,” a statement that was difficult for us to face.
We reached for Crosby to ask for evidence of his request and former work with Canadian Airlines. We also turned to Air Canada to try to check the requested former work of Crosby. We reached for The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the government agency that regulates civil aviation in the United States, check CROSBI’s claims on flight detention. We expect the answers to our inquiries.
Trump said In January 2025, he never visited Epstein Island, which prosecutors claim that the financier used to conceal sexual trafficking and abuse of minor victims. Epstein property The Great Islands of St. James and Small St. James in the US Virgin Islands before his death in 2019. He uses little St. James to entertain prominent guests from flights, enchanting politics, entertainment and business, and according to reports, intended to develop Great Saint James with homes.
Crosby’s claim diverted from reality
When checking, the elements of Crosby’s claim seem discredited the idea that there are flight records to prove that Donald Trump’s plane has flew to the small island of St. James 37 times.
First, the Trump organization has numerous planes and helicopters. Trump bought a Boeing 727 in 1997, which previously flew as part of Trump Shuttle, Trump’s short -term airline. He then replaced 727 in 2011 with the current Trump Force First. Trump’s organization also owned Cessna Citation X sold In May 2024 Crosby did not specify which airplane his claim had come to. In addition, the small island of St. James has no airport. A more recent investigation of visitors to the island in TECH magazine, connected in 2024, found that people had arrived on the island or with a helicopter or boat after flying to the nearby St. Thomas.
It was not possible to prove Crosby’s secondary claim that “all flights everywhere” were saved for “ten or more years”. Our study found that the Ministry of Transport required “certified air carriers”, which means carriers licensed by DOT for transportation of passengers or goods to save “Systemic Aircraft Movement Report “in just three years. We have not found specific policies to retain private aircraft outside records related to maintenanceS “All flights everywhere” were also an extremely wide statement, as individual countries have separate agencies regulating air traffic and record holdings.
Live data for the movement of private aircraft are usually publicly As the aircraft relies on public systems such as air traffic control, lights and runways. Some flight tracking websites Combine publicly available data with (sometimes) Private ownership data on private aircraft to track celebrities. However, at the time of writing, it was not clear how long the FAA, the agency that facilitated the collection of this data kept it.
The origin of the claim followed “Anti-Trump” Super Pac
Although our investigation has not found evidence to support Crosby’s claim, the profile he publishes seems to be real, which means that he belongs to a real person, as opposed to AI Slop accounts that distribute proven fake claims from anonymous platforms.
Crosby has previously published (archived) photos of himself who showed the same face in the photo on August 6th. The account also marks friends and family members in publications and is published consistently for the same hobbies – it usually signs that a real person is behind an account.
Crosby makes approximately the same claims repeatedly (archived, archived) on August 6 on the basis of local time in Regina, Saskachewan, where his Facebook profile is said to be based. On July 13, Crosby made a similar statement (archived) that “we also have every diary or boat that went to the island of Epstein.” Crosby publishes these allegations of different groups related to the Meidas Touch News network, an independent network that is described as a “pro -deposy”. The network is growing from Super Pac, which has previously supported the campaign of former US President Joe Biden.
On February 15, 2025, Crosby published (archived) that he was the “web administrator of the network Meidas Touch News”. Crosby was the administrator of at least two Facebook groups related to the Meidas Touch News network. Rolling Stone describes Meidas Touch in 2021 as Anti-Trump.
Briefly …
Although speculation continues to bypass Epstein and the small island of St. James, we have not found evidence of the specific claim that Donald Trump’s plane has flew to the small island of St. James 37 times.
We have found no evidence that Tom Crosby, who publishes the demand on pages related to “Anti-Trump, the Meidas Touch news network, was actually hired by the Canadian Airlines, as he claimed to his post. Crossbur was identical to the one found in the Amazon-Sold Amazon costume.
Although we have no basic evidence in the form of Trump’s flight logs at the time, we know that planes cannot land on small St. James, and more recently landed on nearby St. Thomas. Whether Trump was on board or no, his plane could not land on the small island of St. James, making 37 flights to this destination incredible.
Trump said in January 2025 that he never visited the island of Epstein. At the time of writing, there was no public evidence for the contrary.
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14 CFR 91.417 – Maintenance Records. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/part-91/section-91.417. Access to 8 August 2025
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