Epstein files: DOJ releases previously withheld FBI reports about sex abuse allegation against Trump

[ad_1] The Division of Justice on Thursday launched three beforehand withheld FBI interview stories from 2019 associated to a girl who made uncorroborated allegations that she was abused by Donald Trump within the Eighties, when she was a minor.

In an announcement on social media, the Division of Justice mentioned the interview summaries -- often known as FBI 302 stories -- had been initially withheld from the January launch of thousands and thousands of pages of DOJ paperwork associated to Jeffrey Epstein as a result of they had been believed to be duplicative of different paperwork.

"What we discovered by intensive evaluate is {that a} printed 302 -- moreover disclosed in a broadcast spreadsheet -- had subsequent 302s that had been coded as 'duplicative.' After this was dropped at our consideration, we reviewed the complete batch with the same coding and found 15 paperwork had been incorrectly coded as duplicative," the DOJ account mentioned.

The assertion didn't seem to clarify why, past potential human error, the data had been marked as duplicative. As of Thursday night, the DOJ database nonetheless doesn't embody the handwritten notes from the interviews themselves.

In accordance with the stories, the FBI interviewed the girl 4 occasions between July and October 2019. Throughout every of the interviews with the girl, whose identification is redacted, she made allegations of abuse towards Epstein.

In her second interview with federal investigators, she claimed that Epstein as soon as took her to both New York or New Jersey the place he launched to Trump when she was between the ages of 13 and 15 years previous. In accordance with the report, she claimed Trump abused her throughout that journey.

Within the fourth interview in October 2019, the girl declined to supply further particulars concerning the alleged interplay with Trump when requested by brokers, in keeping with the abstract of that interview.

Her statements to the federal brokers allege that the incident with Trump passed off within the early-to-mid Eighties -- a interval when Epstein and Trump didn't look like involved.

This photograph illustration exhibits redacted paperwork from the Epstein Library information launched by the US Division of Justice in Washington, DC, on February 18, 2026. The Epstein Recordsdata Transparency Act (EFTA), handed overwhelmingly by Congress in November 2025, compelled the Justice Division to launch the entire paperwork in its possession associated to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein inside 30 days.

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Trump has denied any wrongdoing associated to his relationship with Epstein or any data of Epstein’s prison exercise.

In her preliminary interview with the FBI, the girl claims she was sexually abused by Epstein after being employed for what she thought was a babysitting job, however she mentioned there have been no kids current. Related abuse occurred, she mentioned, on a number of extra events, in keeping with the abstract of the primary report, which was launched by the DOJ in January.

The witness mentioned a number of alleged incidents with Epstein passed off in South Carolina, a location not identified to have been frequented by Epstein. The timing of the allegations would place them 20 years earlier than legislation enforcement in Florida started investigating Epstein for sexual exploitation of minors.

Earlier than the extra data had been launched Thursday, Congressional Democrats had accused the Justice Division of illegally withholding the paperwork to guard the president.

"It's unconscionable, it's unlawful, and [Attorney General] Pam Bondi and the president have to reply the place these information are," California Democrat Robert Garcia, D-Calif. mentioned final week.

In an announcement in January, the Division of Justice mentioned that some investigative information within the large tranche launched would come with unsubstantiated claims about Trump.

"Among the paperwork comprise unfaithful and sensationalist claims towards President Trump that had been submitted to the FBI proper earlier than the 2020 election. To be clear, the claims are unfounded and false, and if they've a shred of credibility, they definitely would have been weaponized towards President Trump already," the assertion mentioned.