WASHINGTON, March 5 - The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday posted FBI records that summarize interviews with an unidentified woman who made accusations tied to President Donald Trump and to the late financier Jeffrey Epstein.
The records indicate that FBI agents interviewed the woman on four occasions in 2019 during the course of the Epstein investigation. Until this disclosure, the department had made public a log confirming the interviews but had released a summary of only one of the four meetings - the one in which the woman said Epstein had molested her as a teenager.
The newly posted material, available on the Justice Department's website, contains an additional allegation in which the woman claimed that after Epstein introduced her to the future president in New York or New Jersey in the 1980s, when she said she was between 13 and 15 years old, Trump attempted to force her to perform oral sex.
The White House did not immediately answer inquiries about the newly disclosed records. According to reporting that first highlighted the disclosures, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt described the woman's claims as "completely baseless accusations, backed by zero credible evidence."
The Justice Department cautioned that some of the documents include "untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump," language that accompanied the disclosures. The department also said on the social platform X that the records released Thursday were among 15 documents that had been "incorrectly coded as duplicative" and therefore were not published earlier.
News organizations reported that agents spoke with the woman multiple times in 2019, but FBI records suggest contact with her ceased later that year. One record, the report of her final interview in October 2019 - which took place during Trump's first term as president - shows that when agents asked whether she would be willing to provide more information about Trump, she replied to an agent's question by saying she "asked what the point would be of providing the information at this point in her life when there was a strong possibility nothing could be done about it."
The Justice Department's posting comes against the backdrop of increasing congressional scrutiny. Lawmakers have pressed the department over how it has handled materials from the Epstein probe, which it is under an obligation to make public. Democrats have accused the Trump administration of concealing records linked to Trump, and a committee in the House of Representatives voted to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi so members can question her about the government's handling of the disclosures.
Statements by and about both Trump and Epstein are also part of the previously released record. Trump has said his relationship with Epstein ended in the mid-2000s and that he was never aware of the financier's sexual abuse. Other documents the department has released show that Trump flew several times on Epstein's plane in the 1990s - a point Trump has denied.
In an FBI interview report from the period after Epstein was first accused of sexual misconduct, the record states that Trump called the police chief in Palm Beach and said that "everyone has known he's been doing this."
The Justice Department's newest postings add to an evolving public record about the Epstein investigation and the range of allegations the FBI encountered in 2019. The records as released make clear that some claims remain disputed and that the government's review of which materials to make public has been the subject of error and controversy.
Summary
The Justice Department released FBI summaries of four interviews from 2019 with an unidentified woman who alleged she was molested by Jeffrey Epstein as a teenager and also accused Donald Trump of attempting to force oral sex after an introduction by Epstein in the 1980s when she said she was between 13 and 15. The department said the newly posted records had previously been misfiled as duplicates. The disclosures come amid congressional probes and allegations that records were concealed.