Three 2019 FBI interview summaries with women who accused President Donald Trump of sexual assault are missing from the Epstein File.
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WASHINGTON – The Justice Department will investigate whether it improperly withheld FBI files containing allegations against President Donald Trump when it recently released millions of pages of investigative files related to suspected sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, according to media reports.
Three interviews conducted by the FBI in 2019 with women who accused President Trump of sexual assault appear to be missing from the Epstein Library files released to the public in recent months, according to independent journalist Roger Sollenberger and news outlets including NPR.
California Rep. Robert Garcia, the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, confirmed media reports and said the Justice Department had withheld more than 50 pages of documents dealing with the women’s claims from among the more than 3 million Epstein-related documents released.
The woman accused President Trump of sexually assaulting her years ago when she was a minor. No evidence has been publicly presented to support her accusations, and Trump has denied any wrongdoing related to Epstein, a longtime friend before the two fell out decades ago.
Media reports said the existence of the summary, known informally as a 302 report, was listed in a Justice Department index included in a document release in response to a law passed by Congress known as the Epstein File Transparency Act. However, while the index shows that federal officials interviewed the women four times and created summaries for each, the release included only one of the four summaries.
The Associated Press first reported on February 26th about the Justice Department’s new move to investigate the matter. The Justice Department did not immediately respond to USA TODAY’s request for comment.
