Buenos Aires, March 7 (NA) — The United States Department of Justice recently published new documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including previously withheld FBI reports containing uncorroborated allegations that Donald Trump sexually assaulted a minor decades ago, a French media outlet reported this Saturday.
The latest published documents include three FBI interview reports from 2019 with a woman who claimed that Epstein introduced her to the future U.S. president in the 1980s when she was between 13 and 15 years old. (And, according to her testimony recorded in the agency's 302 report), the woman alleged that Trump tried to force her to perform oral sex on him during an encounter organized by Epstein.
The woman claimed she bit Trump during the incident and that he hit her before ordering her to be removed from the room, indicates the RFI site, consulted by the Argentine News Agency.
"Is this account credible?"
The documents do not indicate whether investigators found her account credible, while Trump has already denied any wrongdoing, the report continues.
The material—published on Thursday but came to light in recent hours—includes summaries of four interviews the FBI conducted with the woman between July and October 2019, following Epstein's arrest.
The accuser alleged that Epstein had sexually abused her on multiple occasions and had arranged meetings with other men.
Officials from the Department of Justice noted that these latest documents were not published at the beginning of this year because they were mistakenly classified as duplicates.
In a subsequent interview, agents asked for more details about the alleged interaction with Trump, but she refused to give further explanations and stopped her participation in the investigations.
The Department of Justice warned that the Epstein files contain "false and sensationalistic claims" presented by members of the public, especially those that surfaced after the financier's arrest.
Karoline Leavitt pushed back
"These are completely unfounded allegations, with no credible evidence to support them, made by a sadly disturbed woman with an extensive criminal history," stated White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt in a statement.
This official continued: "The total lack of basis for these accusations is also supported by the obvious fact that the Biden Department of Justice has known about this for four years and did nothing about it, because they knew that President Trump had done absolutely nothing wrong."
This week, the committee voted to subpoena the Attorney General, Pam Bondi, to testify about the department's handling of the files, in an unusual show of bipartisan frustration that included the support of several Republicans.
Robert Garcia, the panel's top Democrat, pointed out that the Department of Justice announced the latest publication one day after the vote on Bondi.
"This is after they removed 50,000 files without explanation. We are going to put an end to this White House cover-up," Garcia posted on X.
