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A photo board featuring a photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump during a House of Representatives committee hearing in 2024. Alamy Stock Photo

US Justice Department releases Epstein documents with sexual assault claims against Trump

The documents include descriptions of 2019 FBI interviews held with a woman who alleged she was assaulted by both Epstein and Trump as a child.

THE US JUSTICE Department has published additional FBI documents describing interviews with a woman who said President Donald Trump sexually assaulted her after she was introduced to him by Jeffrey Epstein.

The documents had not been made public under previous congressionally-mandated file releases related to the late convicted sex offender because they were mistakenly marked “duplicative,” the department said yesterday.

Democrats are investigating the Trump administration’s handling of the Epstein files.

The documents released yesterday include descriptions of multiple 2019 interviews the FBI held with the woman, who alleged she was assaulted by both Epstein and Trump while she was between 13 and 15 years old.

In one interview, the woman said Epstein took her to “either New York or New Jersey” and introduced her to Trump. She told investigators that she bit Trump as he attempted to force her to perform oral sex on him.

The woman said she and people close to her received threatening calls over the years demanding she keep quiet that she believed were related to Epstein.

Trump has denied any wrongdoing related to the Epstein allegations, and the Justice Department previously said some of the documents it has released “contain untrue and sensationalist claims against President Trump.”

Democrats have accused the Trump administration of covering up details of the Epstein investigation that could negatively impact Trump.

On Wednesday, a House committee voted to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi to answer questions about the Justice Department’s handling of the documents.

Previous emails that were released from the files include Epstein suggesting that Trump was aware of the disgraced financier’s sexual abuse and definitely “knew about the girls.”

Trump has repeatedly denied any involved or knowledge of the sex-trafficking activities of his former friend, who died by suicide in 2019 while in prison awaiting trial.

– © AFP2026

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