The Division of Justice on Thursday launched three beforehand withheld FBI interview reviews from 2019 associated to a girl who made uncorroborated allegations that she was abused by Donald Trump within the Nineteen Eighties, when she was a minor.
In a press release on social media, the Division of Justice stated the interview summaries — often known as FBI 302 reviews — have been initially withheld from the January launch of hundreds of thousands of pages of DOJ paperwork associated to Jeffrey Epstein as a result of they have been believed to be duplicative of different paperwork.
“What we discovered via in depth overview is {that a} revealed 302 — moreover disclosed in a printed spreadsheet — had subsequent 302s that have been coded as ‘duplicative.’ After this was delivered to our consideration, we reviewed your complete batch with the same coding and found 15 paperwork have been incorrectly coded as duplicative,” the DOJ account stated.
The assertion didn’t seem to elucidate why, past attainable human error, the data have been marked as duplicative. As of Thursday night, the DOJ database nonetheless doesn’t embrace the handwritten notes from the interviews themselves.
In keeping with the reviews, the FBI interviewed the lady 4 occasions between July and October 2019. Throughout every of the interviews with the lady, 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took her to both New York or New Jersey the place he launched to Trump when she was between the ages of 13 and 15 years outdated. In keeping with the report, she claimed Trump abused her throughout that journey.
Within the fourth interview in October 2019, the lady declined to offer extra particulars concerning the alleged interplay with Trump when requested by brokers, in response to the abstract of that interview.
Her statements to the federal brokers allege that the incident with Trump happened within the early-to-mid Nineteen Eighties — a interval when Epstein and Trump didn’t seem like involved.
This photograph illustration reveals 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 all the 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 lady claims she was sexually abused by Epstein after being employed for what she thought was a babysitting job, however she stated there have been no youngsters current. Comparable abuse occurred, she stated, on a number of extra events, in response to the abstract of the primary report, which was launched by the DOJ in January.
The witness stated a number of alleged incidents with Epstein happened 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 regulation enforcement in Florida started investigating Epstein for sexual exploitation of minors.
Earlier than the extra data have 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 must reply the place these information are,” California Democrat Robert Garcia, D-Calif. stated final week.
In a press release in January, the Division of Justice stated that some investigative information within the huge tranche launched would come with unsubstantiated claims about Trump.
“A few of the paperwork comprise unfaithful and sensationalist claims towards President Trump that have 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 stated.
