New cache of Epstein files released Friday with Trump accusations
March 6 (UPI) — The Department of Justice released new FBI documents Thursday that describe several interviews with a woman who accused President Donald Trump of sexually abusing her when she was a young teen.
The pages had been withheld from the other documents from the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Officials said they were held back because they mistakenly believed they were duplicates.
The 16 pages of notes describe three interviews that the FBI conducted in 2019 with the woman, who said she was sexually abused by Epstein and Trump when she was between the ages of 13 years and 15 years in the 1980s.
There are also two pages from an intake form that document the initial call to the FBI from a friend who reported the woman’s claims.
Epstein died by suicide in jail in 2019.
The House Oversight Committee voted Wednesday to subpoena U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to testify on the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein files, which are legally required to be released to the public.
The Justice Department posted on X that it identified about a dozen other documents that were “incorrectly coded as duplicative.”
Federal prosecutors in Florida also determined that five prosecution memos that had been labeled privileged could be redacted and released.
NPR reported that it conducted an investigation that found 53 pages that appeared to be missing from the public release database.
There are still 37 pages missing, NPR said, including notes from the interviews, a law enforcement report and license records.
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee said in a statement that they applauded the release of the interviews but still criticized the department for its handling.
“But let’s be clear — this White House cover-up is ongoing. Millions of pages still remain concealed from the public and our committee,” said Sara Guerrero, spokesperson for Oversight Democrats.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement to NPR Friday that Trump has been “totally exonerated by the release of the Epstein files.”
“These are completely baseless accusations, backed by zero credible evidence, from a sadly disturbed woman who has an extensive criminal history,” Leavitt wrote to NPR.
“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,” she wrote.
