The Justice Department has finally released FBI interview memos in which a woman accuses Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was between 13 and 15 years old—documents the DOJ had previously buried and only published after media reports exposed their absence from the Epstein files.
The woman, whose identity remains redacted, alleges that Jeffrey Epstein introduced her to Trump in either New York or New Jersey in the 1980s. According to the FBI memos, Trump ordered everyone else out of the room, said something to the effect of “Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be,” unzipped his pants, and pushed her head toward his penis.
When she bit him, the woman told FBI agents, Trump allegedly pulled her hair, punched her in the side of the head, and shouted, “Get this little b—h the hell out of here.”
Trump has denied any wrongdoing and claims the Epstein files have “totally exonerated” him.
The DOJ initially only published documents from the first of four FBI interviews with the woman—the one that didn’t mention Trump. After the Daily Beast reported last month that the Trump-related interviews were missing, and the Wall Street Journal found more than 40,000 documents had been pulled offline, Democrats announced an investigation. The DOJ claimed the files had been “incorrectly tagged as duplicates.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called the allegations “completely baseless” and attacked the victim’s credibility by citing her criminal record—despite the fact that her identity is redacted and unknown to the public.
The interviews, conducted in August and October 2019 after Epstein’s arrest, contain additional bombshells. The woman described nicknames she claims Trump and Epstein used for young women: “fresh meat,” “untainted,” and “not jaded.” She told agents Trump appeared “jealous” of Epstein and that the two discussed blackmail operations. She also claimed knowledge of illegal building permits Trump had used and said she overheard him discussing money laundering through casinos.
In her third interview, the woman described receiving threatening phone calls and being “almost run off of the road” by cars on multiple occasions. Speaking under her breath, she told agents that if Epstein wasn’t behind the threats, maybe it was “the other one”—Trump.
By her fourth and final interview, the woman had no attorney present and was uncomfortable being recorded. When agents asked her to describe her interactions with Trump, she replied, “What’s the point?” citing concerns about the statute of limitations.
The FBI apparently agreed. An internal email included in the files noted that “one identified victim claimed abuse by Trump but ultimately refused to cooperate.” A DOJ official confirmed to CNN that the department is not currently investigating anyone in connection with the case and doesn’t expect anyone to be charged.
A top Democrat who has reviewed unredacted versions of the Epstein files claimed last month that Trump’s name appears more than one million times throughout the documents. The DOJ has released only 3.5 million of the more than 6 million files in its possession.
