DOJ Reportedly Withheld Epstein Files About Trump Allegedly Sexually Abusing a 13-Year-Old

As if redacted files, damning victim testimonies, and more than 5,300 mentions in the Epstein Files didn’t already make Trump look very bad and very connected to the disgraced financier, NPR now reports that the Justice Department withheld a number of documents, despite the order from Congress to release them all. This begs the question… how much fucking worse can this all get?

According to NPR, among those documents are interviews with the woman who accused Trump of sexually abusing her when she was 13 in 1983. The woman was reportedly interviewed by the FBI four times—but NPR reports that only the first interview, from 2019, appears in the public Epstein Files database, and it doesn’t mention Trump. 

In one of the interviews, the woman claims that after Epstein introduced her to Trump, he “subsequently forced her head down to his exposed penis which she subsequently bit. In response, Trump punched her in the head and kicked her out.” 

The investigation was done by cross-referencing the millions of pages that the DOJ uploaded at the end of January with the ones currently available on its website, and because “multiple sets of unique serial numbers [appear] before and after the pages,” NPR was able to deduce that dozens of pages were logged by the DOJ but not published to the website. The outlet also found that various documents mentioning Trump were briefly removed or hidden at the time of reporting.

Over the weekend, the Telegraph also revealed Epstein had about six storage units in the U.S., all of which stored various hard drives, computers, and photographs. According to the U.K.-based outlet, when it obtained a search warrant, it seemed that American authorities had never touched the units.

The DOJ was ordered to release the files in full by December in accordance with the Epstein Transparency Act, which was passed in November. It missed the deadline by more than a month. And seemingly ignored the part where they were meant to release everything. 

Ahead of publication, a spokeswoman told NPR, “[Trump] has done more for Epstein’s victims than anyone before him.” One of this administration’s more insane statements. 

Following the DOJ’s data dump in January, 20 Epstein’s survivors penned a letter condemning the administration for failing to properly redact information, exposing their details and nude images. “[There were] literally thousands of mistakes,” one of their attorneys told ABC News.

A few Democrats invited Epstein survivors to be their guests at Tuesday night’s State of the Union—marking the first time the president will be in the same room as them, after refusing to meet for months. And, well, I don’t think he can pull a Pam Bondi and just keep his back turned to them—but we’ll see.

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