The Justice Department has removed and withheld documents from the public Epstein files database that relate to accusations against President Trump—including more than 50 pages of FBI interviews with a woman who claims Trump sexually abused her when she was 13 years old.
That’s according to an NPR investigation that found dozens of pages catalogued by DOJ but mysteriously absent from the public release mandated by the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
The FBI interviewed the accuser four times. Only one interview—the one that doesn’t mention Trump—made it into the public database.
According to the files that were released, the woman told investigators that around 1983, Epstein introduced her to Trump, “who subsequently forced her head down to his exposed penis which she subsequently bit. In response, Trump punched her in the head and kicked her out.”
The allegation appears in an FBI list of Epstein-related claims and an internal DOJ slideshow about “prominent names” in the investigation. But the supporting documentation—the actual interviews and notes from conversations with this woman—isn’t there.
Rep. Robert Garcia, ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, confirmed the discrepancy after reviewing unredacted evidence logs at DOJ. “Oversight Democrats can confirm that the DOJ appears to have illegally withheld FBI interviews with this survivor who accused President Trump of heinous crimes,” he stated.
Rep. Ted Lieu has also come out and publicly reported what he saw in the unredacted files.
.@RepTedLieu: "Donald Trump is in the Epstein files thousands & thousands of times. In those files, there's highly disturbing allegations of Donald Trump raping children, of Donald Trump threatening to kill children." pic.twitter.com/67BE1eMpBd
— CSPAN (@cspan) February 3, 2026
A second woman’s files have also been scrubbed. She was a key prosecution witness in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking trial and told the FBI that Epstein took her to Mar-a-Lago to meet Trump when she was around 13. “EPSTEIN told TRUMP, ‘This is a good one, huh,'” the interview report reads.
That interview was removed from the public database after initial publication in January, then quietly restored weeks later.
The DOJ declined to answer questions about the specific missing files. A spokesperson said any withheld documents are “privileged, are duplicates or relate to an ongoing federal investigation.” Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy AG Todd Blanche have insisted nothing was withheld based on “embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity.”
The White House called the whole thing a smear. “President Trump has been totally exonerated on anything relating to Epstein,” spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told NPR, adding that Trump “has done more for Epstein’s victims than anyone before him.”
Meanwhile, Maxwell—serving 20 years for sex trafficking—is seeking clemency from the president.
While DOJ has been working “around the clock” to fix problems with the files, those problems have been revealing: the department accidentally published unredacted names of abuse victims while simultaneously hiding documents that mention the president.