WASHINGTON — The Justice Department’s public database of the Epstein Files contains an allegation President Donald Trump abused a minor decades ago, but documents from an apparent FBI investigation into the allegation are not public despite a law mandating their disclosure.
A compilation of accusations against prominent names, a document the Justice Department assembled last summer from its investigatory files on Jeffrey Epstein, included one from an unidentified accuser who claimed: “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.”
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, said he reviewed unredacted Epstein files this week at a facility the Justice Department set up for members of Congress. He said Tuesday that FBI forms recounting interviews with the Trump accuser have been left out of the public database.
“Oversight Democrats can confirm that the DOJ appears to have illegally withheld FBI interviews with this survivor who accused President Trump of heinous crimes,” Garcia said in a statement. “Covering up direct evidence of a potential assault by the President of the United States is the most serious possible crime in this White House cover up.”
