Epstein Files: U.S Justice Department Finally Drops Memos on Trump Abuse Claims

Olawale Olalekan
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After several back-and-forths, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has finally released a new set of FBI interview memos regarding sexual abuse claims against U.S President Donald Trump.

These documents, which were previously identified as missing from the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s files by investigative reports, provide more detail regarding abuse claims against Trump. 

Pan-Atlantic Kompass reports that the newly published pages include summaries of interviews with a woman who alleged she was sexually abused by Trump when she was a minor in the early 1980s, an accusation the President has consistently and firmly denied as “untrue and sensationalist.”

​The release follows intense scrutiny from lawmakers and media outlets after an investigation revealed that dozens of pages were initially omitted from the massive three-million-page database published in late January 2026. 

The DOJ stated that the temporary removal of Trump abuse claims was necessary to review the material for victim privacy and to ensure the protection of sensitive personal information.

It was gathered that FBI agents conducted four interviews with the woman, but only one memo memorializing an interview in July 2019 was available in the DOJ database that was made public earlier this year. 

In that interview, the woman alleged she was repeatedly abused by Epstein when she was a minor living in South Carolina. She did not make abuse claims against Trump in that interview.

However, the newly released files cover three additional interviews conducted with the woman in August and October 2019.

In the second interview, the woman described additional abuse by Epstein and several of his male associates. She said that Epstein “drove her and/or flew her to either New York or New Jersey” sometime when she was between 13 and 15 years old, and she was taken to a “very tall building.” It was there that she said Epstein introduced her to Trump.

Trump asked everyone to leave the room where they met, and “mentioned something to the effect of, ‘Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be,’” according to the description of the woman’s comments in the interview. He then unzipped his pants and put her head “down to his penis,” she told agents.

The woman told agents that she bit Trump, who then struck her and said “words to the effect of, ‘get this little bitch the hell out of here.’”

Later in the interview, the woman told agents she heard Trump and Epstein talking about Epstein blackmailing people and also heard Trump “talking about washing money through casinos.”

In the woman’s third FBI interview, about three weeks later, agents wrote that she described receiving threatening telephone calls that she said she believed had to do with Epstein or Trump, as well as several incidents where she was “almost run off the road” by other cars.

During the fourth interview, about two months after her last meeting with FBI agents, the woman did not have an attorney present, unlike in the previous meetings. She told law enforcement agents she was uncomfortable being recorded and asked them, “What’s the point?” of coming forward with allegations after the statute of limitations had likely passed, the agents wrote.

The memo noted that the agents encouraged her “to go home and take as much time as she needed to think about speaking with the agents further.”

It’s unclear what became of the FBI’s investigation into the woman’s claims. An email sent between FBI agents last summer and included in the DOJ files notes that “one identified victim claimed abuse by Trump but ultimately refused to cooperate.” However, it doesn’t specify if it’s the same person as the accuser.

Pan-Atlantic Kompass recalls that a lawsuit against the Epstein estate included a victim who made claims about the financier – that he had abused her in South Carolina and brought her to gatherings in New York City with “prominent, wealthy men” – that matched some of the claims the woman made in the FBI interviews. She does not name Trump in the lawsuit.

That victim, identified as “Jane Doe 4,” was “deemed ineligible to receive compensation” by the Epstein Victims’ Compensation Program, a system set up to independently review claims by victims, according to a court record from May 2021. It’s not clear why she was deemed ineligible.

Meanwhile, in a swift reaction, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt described the claims from the FBI interviews as “completely baseless accusations, backed by zero credible evidence.” She also questioned the credibility of the accuser, whose name is redacted in the files, pointing to her criminal record.

“The total baselessness of these accusations is also supported by the obvious fact that Joe Biden’s Department of Justice knew about them for four years and did nothing with them — because they knew President Trump did absolutely nothing wrong,” Leavitt added.

Pan-Atlantic Kompass

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Olalekan Olawale is a digital journalist (BA English, University of Ilorin) who covers education, immigration & foreign affairs, climate, technology and politics with audience-focused storytelling.