The documents were not included in the justice department’s earlier releases of Epstein-related records, which began in December. Justice department officials have said the files were initially withheld because they were mistakenly categorized as duplicates.
Trump has consistently denied any wrongdoing related to Epstein or any knowledge of Epstein’s criminal activity.
The materials released on Thursday, which the Guardian obtained and reported on last week, describe a series of FBI interviews conducted in 2019 with a woman who alleged that she had been sexually assaulted by Epstein, and by Trump, in the 1980s, when she was a minor. The woman had contacted the FBI shortly after Epstein’s 2019 arrest on federal sex trafficking charges.
Her allegations have not been verified, and the FBI never brought charges related to her claims. The Guardian reported last week that some of her statements appear to contradict what is known about Epstein’s life in the early 1980s.
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