(Washington) The US Department of Justice on Thursday released Federal Police (FBI) documents describing interviews dating from 2019 relating to uncorroborated accusations made by a woman against Donald Trump in the context of the Epstein affair.
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In these interviews, the woman claims to have been the victim of sexual assault by the real estate mogul in the 1980s when she was a minor.
In a statement posted on social media, the Justice Department said the interview summaries were initially removed from the January release of millions of pages of documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein because they were considered duplicative of other documents.
The leader of the Democratic senators Chuck Schumer last week accused the Trump administration of a “massive cover-up” of documents from the file of sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, warning the Justice Department against any destruction of evidence.
According to documents released Thursday, the FBI interviewed the woman four times between July and October 2019 while Donald Trump was serving his first term as president of the United States. In each of these interviews, this woman, whose identity is redacted, made allegations of abuse against Epstein.
During her second interrogation by federal investigators, she claimed that Epstein took her to New York or New Jersey where he introduced her to Trump when she was between 13 and 15 years old. According to the report, she said Trump abused her during that trip.
During the fourth interview, in October 2019, the woman refused to provide additional details about the alleged interaction with Trump when questioned by agents, according to the publicly released summary of that interview.
His statements to federal agents indicate that the incident with Trump allegedly occurred in the early to mid-1980s, a period during which Epstein and Trump did not appear to be in contact.
Once close to Jeffrey Epstein with whom he moved in the same circles, Donald Trump has always denied having any knowledge of his criminal behavior and claims to have broken up with him well before his legal troubles.
