Missing FBI Epstein records on Trump accuser released
The U.S. Department of Justice has released FBI records summarizing interviews in which an unidentified woman made accusations about alleged sexual advances against President Donald Trump.
FBI agents interviewed the woman four times in 2019 as part of the investigation into sex trafficking accused Jeffrey Epstein.
The Justice Department had previously released a recording confirming that the meetings had occurred, but had only released a summary of one of the four meetings; where she accused Epstein of molesting her when she was young.
The newly released records, published on the department’s website Thursday, show that Epstein claimed Trump tried to force him to have oral sex after he introduced him to the future president in New York or New Jersey in the 1980s when he was between 13 and 15 years old.
The White House did not immediately respond to questions about the statements.
Politico, which first published the statements, said White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called the woman’s allegations “completely unfounded accusations supported by zero credible evidence.”
The Justice Department warned that some of the documents contained “unfounded and sensational allegations against President Trump.”
Reuters could not independently verify the veracity of the woman’s allegations, and FBI records show that agents stopped talking to the woman in 2019.
The Justice Department said in a statement on social media platform
The disclosure comes as the Justice Department faces scrutiny in Congress over its handling of documents from the Epstein investigation that should have been made public.
Democrats accused the Trump administration of suppressing records related to Trump, and a House committee voted to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi so lawmakers could question her about how the government handled disclosures.
Trump said his relationship with Epstein ended in the mid-2000s and that he was never aware of the financier’s sexual misconduct.
Records previously released by the department show Trump flew on Epstein’s plane several times in the 1990s, but Trump has denied this.
After the financier was first accused of sexual harassment, Trump called the police chief in Palm Beach to tell him “everyone knew he did this,” according to an FBI interview recording.
In the report on the woman’s last interview, conducted in October 2019 during Trump’s first presidency, agents asked if the woman wanted to provide more information about Trump.
In response, the representative wrote that he was “asking what it meant to provide this information at this point in his life, when there was a strong possibility that nothing could be done about it.”
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