The US Department of Justice has published new documents on the Jeffrey Epstein case, including FBI interviews with a South Carolina woman who accused the pedophile financier and US President Donald Trump of sexual harassment, excluded in a previous review because they were “erroneously coded as duplicates”.
The accuser was interviewed by the FBI four times in an attempt to assess the reliability of her account, but a summary of only one of these interviews was included in the documents made public.
“As we have always done, with reports of concerns, the department would review, make any corrections, and republish the documents online,” the department said in a post on
The interviews, which had not been published until now, arousing criticism from the victims of the monster and also from a large part of Democratic and Republican politicians, describe the facts in detail. For example, that the victim’s mother was blackmailed by Epstein and that, for years, after the abuse by the financier who committed suicide, she received physical and verbal threats.
On more than one occasion he “accompanied her by car and/or plane to New York or New Jersey”, to a “very tall building, with huge rooms” where the tycoon sexually assaulted her. The woman contacted federal forces shortly after Epstein’s arrest in 2019. Trump has consistently denied any wrongdoing in relation to the financier.
The department noted in January that some documents have “false and sensationalized statements against President Trump, submitted to the FBI immediately prior to the 2020 election.” White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt downplayed the accusations against the US president. “These are completely unfounded allegations, supported by no credible evidence from a sadly disturbed woman with a long criminal history,” he said in a statement.
“The complete baselessness of these allegations is also supported by the obvious fact that Joe Biden’s Justice Department knew about them for four years and did nothing about it, because it knew that Trump had done absolutely nothing wrong,” he continued.
“As we have said countless times, the president has been completely exonerated in the release of the Epstein files.” The new revelations come as Attorney General Pam Bondi faces ongoing criticism for the department’s handling of files released under a law passed by Congress after months of public and political pressure.
Five Republicans on the House Oversight Committee joined Democrats in voting Wednesday to subpoena Bondi, requiring her to answer questions under oath, in a sign of growing frustration among members of the president’s own party. In short, a complex story whose end is far away.