An NPR investigation has found the U.S. Justice Department has withheld more than 50 pages of FBI interviews and notes from conversations with a woman who accused President Donald Trump of sexual abuse decades ago, when she was a minor. Some documents in which accusations against Epstein also mention Trump have also been removed from the public database.
“Yesterday, I reviewed unredacted evidence logs at the Department of Justice,” said Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif. and ranking member of the House Oversight Committee. “Oversight Democrats can confirm that the DOJ appears to have illegally withheld FBI interviews with this survivor who accused President Trump of heinous crimes.”
Democrats on the Oversight Committee are now investigating whether the DOJ purposefully withheld materials in the Epstein file release. Garcia said such an act would violate the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which was signed into law by Trump himself.
The allegations come as Trump prepares to deliver his State of the Union address this evening.