A 25-page-long document detailing four separate interviews that FBI agents conducted with a woman in 2019 has become a central piece of the narrative in the aftermath of the release of the “Epstein Files.” Breitbart News is withholding her name. The Justice Department did not publicly release this document when it released the rest of the Epstein Files pursuant to the federal law Trump signed late last year mandating the release of the Epstein Files.
“These non-credible accusations against President Trump made in 2019 were in the SDNY files and listed as duplicative files, and therefore not legally required to be released by the Epstein Transparency Act as it was written by Congress,” an administration official told Breitbart News.
NPR first reported the contents of the document, which includes salacious claims about men the woman alleges were Epstein and Trump. The New York Times subsequently reported on the document as well. The framing of their stories is that the document was withheld from the DOJ’s legally mandated release of the Epstein Files, suggesting that Trump’s team withheld it due to the allegations against the president contained within. NPR used that framing to float the specific allegations in public. In addition to the NPR story, a Mediaite piece separately called the allegations “credible” in its own headline. The Times piece was more careful, not vividly describing these salacious allegations and calling them “uncorroborated.”
The South Carolina newspaper the Post and Courier, described the situation as such in its own report on the matter:
The Epstein files released by the U.S. Justice Department failed to include three FBI interview summaries and six other documents related to the investigation of a victim who said Jeffrey Epstein repeatedly sexually assaulted her when she was a young teen living on Hilton Head Island.
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