NPR has an exclusive and extensive report that claims the Department of Justice withheld FBI interviews related to Donald Trump sexually abusing a minor. DOJ removed some of those documents from the public files released under a Congressional law.
NPR reviewed multiple sets of unique serial numbers appearing before and after the pages in question, stamped onto documents in the Epstein files database, FBI case records, emails and discovery document logs in the latest tranche of documents published at the end of January. NPR’s investigation found dozens of pages that appear to be catalogued by the Justice Department but not shared publicly.
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In late July 2025, the FBI circulated internally related allegations that mentioned Trump. Many of those allegations were of a salacious nature and most were marked not credible or unverifiable. But one lead was sent to the FBI’s Washington Office with the purpose of setting up an interview with the accuser.
The first accuser:
- The accuser directly named Trump in her allegations that she was introduced to the President when she was 13 by Jeffrey Epstein.
- Trump “subsequently forced her head down to his exposed penis which she subsequently bit. In response, Trump punched her in the head and kicked her out.”
Out of more than three million pages of files released by the Justice Department in recent months, this specific allegation against Trump only appears in copies of the FBI list of claims and the DOJ slideshow.
But the case file and discovery documents turned over to Ghislaine Maxwell and her attorneys in her criminal case point to one place that accusers claim could have come from, and how serious investigators took it.
The FBI interviewed this accuser four times. But only the first interview, conducted July 24, 2019, is in the public database. That interview does not mention Trump.
The second accuser:
Another woman who mentioned Trump made the DOJ’s presentation, and appeared in the Maxwell discovery files.
- She detailed how she met Epstein at Michigan’s Interlochen Center for the Arts, and described how Epstein took her to Mar-a-Lago to meet Trump.
- “EPSTEIN told TRUMP, ‘This is a good one, huh.,'” the interview report reads. Both men then chuckled.
There are multiple FBI interviews with other people regarding the second accuser’s claims. One of those interviews was released, removed, and then restored.
But another interview with the accuser’s mother is offline.
- In that conversation, the mother recalled hearing that “a prince and DONALD TRUMP visited EPSTEIN’s house” which made her “think that if they are there then how could EPSTEIN be a criminal,” according to NPR’s copy of the file that was first published.