FBI documents withheld from the Epstein Files containing allegations that Donald Trump sexually assaulted a schoolgirl have been released by the US authorities.
Memos from interviews with the alleged victim had been flagged as missing from the trove of US Department of Justice documents linked to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
However, amid claims of a White House cover-up, they were made public yesterday – weeks after the official release of the files and as conflict ravages the Middle East.
The documents reveal that an unidentified woman told FBI agents shortly after Epstein’s arrest for sex trafficking in 2019 that she was assaulted by Epstein and Mr Trump as a young teen in the 1980s.
She claimed she was aged between 13 and 15 when Mr Trump struck her after she bit him while he tried to force her to perform oral sex on him.
Mr Trump has consistently denied any wrongdoing related to Epstein or any knowledge of the late financier’s crimes.
The woman’s allegations have not been verified, and no charges were brought as a result of her claims.
But the timing of the release of the missing documents – as news bulletins are full of reports of the attacks by the US and Israel on Iran – will raise questions.
Newly published documents reveal that an unidentified woman told FBI agents shortly after Epstein’s arrest for sex trafficking in 2019 that she was assaulted by Epstein and Mr Trump as a young teen in the 1980s. Pictured: Mr Trump, with future wife Melania, Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida in 2000
Mr Trump has consistently denied any wrongdoing related to Epstein or any knowledge of the late financier’s crimes. Pictured: Mr Trump with an unidentified woman in an image which appears in the Epstein Files
The Department of Justice did not publish them in its release of more than three million Epstein Files this year, but one document hinted at their existence.
The woman was said to have been spoken to on four occasions between August and October 2019, but only a summary of one of her interviews was included in the Department of Justice’s publicly released tranche.
The department is to review whether the Epstein Files were withheld improperly after Democrats accused Attorney General Pam Bondi of suppressing allegations against the President.
But Department of Justice officials have insisted the files were initially withheld merely because they were mistakenly categorised as duplicates.
The three FBI interview reports show the woman said she came forward after recognising Epstein from a photo sent to her by a friend.
She claimed Epstein began abusing her from the age of 13 and arranged encounters with other men, including an occasion when she was taken to ‘New York or New Jersey’ to meet Mr Trump.
According to the interview summaries – which are known as FBI 302 reports – the woman alleged that Mr Trump attempted to force her to perform oral sex on him during the meeting.
She told the FBI that ‘from the get-go’ Mr Trump ‘didn’t like that I was a boy-girl’, which the agent notes interpreted as meaning she was a tomboy.
The summaries reveal the woman alleged Mr Trump got her alone in a room before telling her: ‘Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be.’
She claimed Mr Trump then unzipped his trousers and pushed her head down. She said she was so ‘disgusted’ she ‘bit the s*** out of it’.
The notes add that Mr Trump then allegedly lashed out and struck her, saying: ‘Get this little b**** the hell out of here.’
The woman said she and those close to her received threatening calls over the years demanding she keep quiet about the incident, and that she believed these calls were related to Epstein.
The notes record how she said in one interview ‘under her breath that if it was not Epstein, maybe it was the ‘other one’.
When asked who she was referring to she stated ‘Trump’, according to the document.
In a later interview, agents pressed her for more detail about the alleged interaction with Mr Trump, but she declined to elaborate and eventually broke off contact with investigators.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed the allegations against Mr Trump.
The department is to review whether the files were withheld improperly after Democrats accused Attorney General Pam Bondi (pictured) of suppressing allegations against the President
She claimed Epstein began abusing her from the age of 13 and arranged encounters with other men, including an occasion when she was taken to ‘New York or New Jersey’ to meet Mr Trump (pictured)
‘These are completely baseless accusations, backed by zero credible evidence from a sadly disturbed woman who has an extensive criminal history,’ she said.
‘The total baselessness of these accusations is also supported by the obvious fact that Joe Biden’s Department of Justice knew about them for four years and did nothing with them – because they knew President Trump did absolutely nothing wrong.
‘As we have said countless times, President Trump has been totally exonerated by the release of the Epstein Files.’
The documents had not been made public under congressionally mandated data releases related to Epstein, who killed himself while in custody in 2019 as he awaited trial on sex-trafficking charges.
The absence of the memos, which was highlighted by the US media, raises questions about whether the White House failed to release sensitive data related to VIPs such as Mr Trump.
It comes as scrutiny of the administration’s handling of Epstein records continues, with critics also accusing the Department of Justice of improperly redacting information.
On Wednesday, in a rare show of bipartisan frustration that saw several Republicans break ranks, a House committee voted to subpoena Ms Bondi to answer questions about the handling of the documents.
The panel’s top Democrat, Robert Garcia, noted that the Department of Justice announced its latest release on Thursday – a day after the Bondi vote.
‘This is after they took down 50k files with no explanation,’ he posted on X.
‘We are going to end this White House cover-up.’
Democrats have begun a probe into whether the department deliberately withheld material that alleged Mr Trump was involved in sexual assault.
The President is mentioned thousands of times in the files, including in emails and correspondence sent by Epstein.
The department said that a review found the batch of 15 files in question had been ‘incorrectly coded as duplicate’ and not released in compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
‘All of these documents are now live in the library,’ a spokeman said.
‘We will also make available all files coded as duplicative in unredacted form for members of Congress to review.’
The department had previously warned that the Epstein Files contained ‘untrue and sensationalist claims’ submitted by members of the public in the wake of his arrest in 2019.
