WASHINGTON: The Department of Justice (DoJ) released FBI documents on Thursday describing several interviews with a woman who has made accusations against President Trump. Pages from a large trove of documents relating to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have been redacted due to what officials misidentified as duplicates.The memos recounted multiple interviews the FBI conducted in 2019 with the woman, who said she was sexually assaulted by both Epstein and Trump. She came forward shortly after Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges. Her accusations date back to the 1980s when she was a teenager.
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The department had already released documents describing the existence of the memos released Thursday, which indicate that the FBI conducted four interviews related to her allegations and wrote summaries of each conversation.
But only one of those interviews, in which she described being assaulted by Epstein, appears to have been included in the initial release, raising questions about why the remaining three disappeared.
Officials initially said they were duplicates issued elsewhere, but a follow-up review found that was not true, officials said.The absence of warrants has increased criticism from some lawmakers and victims that the Trump administration has erred in its responsibility under the law.
The Epstein Files Transparency Act, passed by Congress in November, requires the government to release all files related to Epstein.The Justice Department acknowledged that in addition to those FBI memos, it had also identified about a dozen other documents that were “incorrectly coded as duplicates.” In addition, prosecutors decided that five prosecution memos marked “excellent” could be released with redactions, the department said.
