According to a recent report, the Justice Department is accused of withholding numerous documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, including an FBI investigation into allegations of abuse involving former President Donald Trump.
As reported by NPR, Trump faced accusations of sexually assaulting a teenage girl in the 1980s. The FBI conducted an investigation into these claims and interviewed the alleged victim.
However, when the Department of Justice released millions of records from the Epstein investigation in late January, transcripts of these interviews and accompanying notes were notably absent, despite legal requirements for their inclusion.
Representative Robert Garcia, the leading Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, expressed concern over this omission. “I have personally reviewed unredacted evidence logs at the Department of Justice,” he stated on Tuesday, following NPR’s revelations. “It appears the DOJ has unlawfully withheld FBI interviews with the survivor who accused President Trump of serious offenses.”
In the summer of 2025, the FBI internally circulated a list of individuals who had accused Trump of sexual misconduct. According to recently disclosed documents, most of these claims were dismissed as lacking credibility or being unverifiable. Nonetheless, one woman’s allegations were subjected to further investigation.
This woman reportedly informed investigators that Epstein had introduced her to Trump when she was between 13 and 15 years old. She alleged that Trump forced her head towards his exposed genitalia, which she bit in self-defense, after which Trump allegedly struck her on the head and expelled her from the room.
FBI agents interviewed the woman four times, but only one of those interviews was included in the Epstein files release, according to NPR’s investigation. Another 53 pages of interviews and notes were withheld as well.
The feds also didn’t release files relating to another woman who said Epstein introduced her to Trump while she was a teenager and told the future president, “This is a good one, huh?”
That woman’s accusations were included in discovery materials provided to lawyers for Epstein’s accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, during her trial in 2021. However, they were not included in the DOJ’s Epstein files release, according to NPR.
Trump’s administration has repeatedly denied withholding any files from the Epstein database to protect the president. While Trump is mentioned more than 30,000 times in the publicly released paperwork, none of the mentions describe him committing any crimes — unlike the reportedly unreleased files.
