The accusation that Donald Trump sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl decades ago while he was friends with Jeffrey Epstein has been on the internet since Trump’s first presidential campaign.
The accusation has been floating around for years, but didn’t seem to go anywhere.
Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Justice Department may have revived the accusation when they chose to illegally withhold the prosecutor’s FBI interviews done in 2019 from the release of the Epstein files.
Some files have not been made public despite a law mandating their release. These include what appears to be more than 50 pages of FBI interviews, as well as notes from conversations with a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting him decades ago when she was a minor.
NPR reviewed multiple sets of unique serial numbers that appeared before and after the pages in question, stamped on documents in the Epstein files database, FBI case files, emails and discovery document logs in the latest batch of documents published in late January. NPR’s investigation found dozens of pages that appear to have been cataloged by the Justice Department but have not been shared publicly.
House Oversight Committee Democrats were already investigating the woman’s allegations against Trump, but they have opened a second investigation into the Justice Department’s conduct.
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