The Justice Department removed documents from the Epstein files targeting Trump, a media investigation shows. How the White House responds

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) kept unpublished some documents from the Epstein files that were related to allegations that President Donald Trump had sexually abused a minor, according to an investigation by NPR (National Public Radio, the US public broadcaster). The institution also removed from the public database some documents in which the accusations against Jeffrey Epstein also mention Trump.

Some documents have not been made public, despite the law passed by Congress requiring their publication. Among them – what appear to be more than 50 pages of interviews conducted by the FBI, as well as notes from conversations with a woman who accused Trump of sexual abuse decades ago when she was a minor.

NPR writes that it analyzed several unique serial numbers that appear before and after the pages in question, stamped on documents from the DOJ's database of Epstein files, FBI records, emails and court records included in the latest batch of documents from the Epstein files, released in late January.

The NPR investigation identified dozens of pages that appear to be cataloged by the Justice Department but are not being made public.

The Justice Department declined to formally respond to NPR's questions about these specific files, their contents and why they are not being released.

Other documents hidden from public view relate to a woman who was a key witness for the prosecution in the criminal trial against Epstein's accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking of minors. Maxwell is seeking clemency from Trump.

Some of those documents were briefly pulled and then put back online last week, while others remain hidden, according to NPR's comparison of the original Jan. 30 data set and metadata for the documents currently on the Justice Department's website.

White House: “President Trump has done more than anyone for victims”

When asked to comment on the missing pages and the allegations against the president, a White House spokeswoman told NPR that Donald Trump “has done more for Epstein's victims than anyone before him.”

“As President Trump has said, he has been completely exonerated in any matter related to Epstein,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said in a statement to NPR. “And by releasing thousands of pages of documents, cooperating with the House Oversight Committee, signing the Epstein Files Transparency Act, and calling for additional investigations into Epstein's Democratic friends, President Trump has done more for Epstein's victims than anyone before him. Meanwhile, Democrats like Hakeem Jeffries and Stacey Plaskett have yet to explain why they sought meetings and money from Epstein after he was convicted of crimes sexual”.

Earlier, the White House referred to a Justice Department statement that said the Epstein files contained “untrue and sensationalist claims” about the president.