The radio station reached such conclusions after analyzing the files published by the Ministry of Justice regarding the case of a sex offender and financier who died in 2019.
What new information has emerged in the Epstein case?
What Trump-related documents are missing from the file?
When was the first hearing of the woman accusing Trump?
What does a White House spokeswoman say about the allegations against Trump?
NPR is based, among others, on: on materials that list documents prepared and investigative actions taken by the FBI in the case of Epstein's partner, Ghislaine Maxwell. The materials show that a woman accusing Trump of sexual assault when she was a teenager was interviewed by the FBI four times. However, the documents released by authorities only included notes from the first interrogation, which made no mention of Trump. The document page markings suggest that 50 pages are missing from the published tranche.
Based on reports submitted to a hotline launched in connection with the investigation, the FBI also prepared a list of accusations against Trump and other prominent people. That list indicates the woman claimed she was introduced to Trump by Epstein in 1983, when she was 13 years old. Trump then allegedly forced her to perform oral sex on her, and when she bit him, he allegedly hit her over the head and threw her out.
The FBI found all other reports about Trump through the hotline unreliable, but ordered an interview with the woman in this case, NPR highlighted.
A White House spokeswoman denies the allegations
The station recalled that the Ministry of Justice originally also published other materials from the investigation against Maxwell, potentially incriminating Trump. According to those documents, in 2019, another woman told investigators during an interview that when she was 13, Epstein took her to Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Florida and introduced her to Trump.
“Epstein told Trump, 'This one's good, isn't it?'” the hearing report says. The woman testified that they both reacted by laughing. Residual mentions of this meeting were also found in the testimonies of other witnesses. According to NPR, the hearing document was first removed from the Justice Department's archives after publication, and then was republished on February 19. According to the ministry, the reason was a report from the victim's lawyers.
Asked for comment, White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said — echoing Trump's claims — that the president had been “completely cleared” of any allegations regarding his relationship with Epstein and had done “more for Epstein's victims than anyone before him.”
