Epstein Files ‘Trump Accuser’ Claims Collapse Under Scrutiny
WASHINGTON — Allegations made in FBI interview documents by a woman against President Donald Trump, as revealed by NPR and the New York Timesare subject to careful scrutiny.
A 25-page document detailing four separate interviews that FBI agents conducted with a woman in 2019 has become a central part of the narrative following the release of the “Epstein files.” Breitbart News is withholding his name. The Justice Department did not make this document public when it released the rest of the Epstein files, in accordance with federal law signed by Trump late last year requiring the release of the Epstein files.
“These non-credible accusations against President Trump, made in 2019, were contained in the SDNY records and were listed as duplicate records, and therefore were not legally required to be released by the Epstein Transparency Act as written by Congress,” an administration official told Breitbart News.
NPR first reported the contents of the document, which include salacious claims about men the woman said were Epstein and Trump. THE New York Times subsequently he also reported on the document. The framework of their stories is that the document was withheld during the DOJ’s legally mandated release of the Epstein files, suggesting that Trump’s team withheld it because of the allegations against the president it contained. NPR used this framing to launch the specific allegations publicly. In addition to the NPR story, a Mediaite piece separately called the allegations “credible” in its own headline. THE Times The article was more cautious, not vividly describing these salacious allegations and calling them “uncorroborated.”
The South Carolina newspaper, the Post and Courier, describes the situation as such in his own report on the subject:
The Epstein files released by the U.S. Department of Justice did not contain three summaries of FBI interviews and six other documents related to the investigation into a victim who said Jeffrey Epstein repeatedly sexually assaulted her when she was a young teenager living on Hilton Head Island.
The documents also outlined allegations involving the teen against President Donald Trump. The omission raised questions about whether the Justice Department selectively withheld documents referencing allegations against Trump and other powerful figures in Epstein’s elite circle.
Breitbart News obtained and reviewed the document. The first nine pages are a recap of the woman’s first interview with FBI agents, in which they detail the story she told them. She doesn’t mention Trump at all during the first interview. She does, however, describe a man she claims to have met in the early 1980s while growing up in South Carolina when she was in her early to mid-teens, whom she identifies as “Jeff.” She details how her mother sent her to “Jeff” ostensibly to babysit; instead, she says “Jeff” offered her cocaine, marijuana and alcohol, then “forced” her [her] to perform oral sex on him.
She told officers she had several different interactions with “Jeff” “during one period of time, which was maybe a few weeks, she later recalled about six initial contacts.”
She told FBI agents that she did not know precisely how she learned the man’s name was “Jeff.”
The woman, the agents wrote, “did not remember how she first learned that the man’s name was JEFF; she had just always known that was his name.”
“He may have told her his name, or his mother may have said his name several times at the time,” the agents continued in their report on the first interview, adding in another sentence that the woman says her mother might have discovered the man’s name was “Jeff” through her real estate business at the time.
As for whether the man she knew as “Jeff” had the last name “Epstein,” she told agents in the first interview that she wasn’t sure if she had ever heard his last name at the time, but didn’t become certain that his name was actually “Jeffrey Epstein” until nearly 40 years later, when a friend told her about reporting on Epstein.
According to FBI agents, the woman says that’s when one of her lifelong friends sent her photos and reports about the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case, and that’s when she became certain that the man she claimed to have met 40 years ago was Jeffrey Epstein.
Jacqueline Sweet, investigative journalist whose work has been published in the Tutor, rolling stone, Policyand The Intercept, among other publications, posted on social media late Wednesday that she spoke with Epstein’s brother, Mark Epstein, who cast serious doubt on the woman’s account:
FBI agents interviewed this woman four times, once in July 2019, twice in August 2019, and once again in October 2019. Breitbart News reviewed the document in its entirety and, again, is not publishing her name or other identifying details. She made no allegations against Trump in the first interview.
In subsequent interviews regarding Trump, she could only provide FBI agents with an age range of 13 to 15. She also said she did not know how she got from South Carolina to the New York area, where a meeting allegedly took place; she told officers she did not remember if the man named “Jeff” took her by plane or car or if it was to New York or New Jersey. Based on the interview notes, she says it could have been either.
She also told FBI agents that her mother spent several years in a federal prison in South Carolina following an embezzlement conviction, which she described as being due to her mother being blackmailed by Jeffrey Epstein.
According to the Bureau of Prisons, “no record” of the woman’s mother’s name, as listed in the FBI file, exists in its system.
According to the agents’ accounts, the woman’s story was different from the second to the third interview as to exactly what she claimed Trump did.
During the fourth interview in October 2019, the woman told agents she was now working with renowned feminist lawyers Lisa Bloom and Gloria Allred. It doesn’t appear that either has ever publicly said anything about this woman’s allegations against Trump, which one might expect Allred in particular to have jumped all over.
Also in this fourth interview, agents asked the woman for more information about her allegations against Trump, but she “again asked what would be the point of providing this information at this point in her life when there was a good chance nothing could be done about it,” the report read. She then ended the interview, according to officers.
THE Post and courier further reports that shortly after the fourth interview, she completely cut off all communication with the FBI.
“The woman appears to have cut off all direct contact with the FBI in November 2019,” the statement said. Post and courier wrote. “The FBI noted that her attorney contacted the agency to report that she had encountered a ‘suspicious incident’ at her workplace. The attorney requested that the FBI not contact the victim again without going through the law firm, according to a filing.”
It should be noted that the interviews were part of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York’s files on Epstein. That office, for much of the Biden administration, had former FBI Director James Comey’s daughter, Maurene Comey, in a leadership position. Biden’s DOJ never charged Trump based on the woman’s allegations as outlined in the FBI interviews.
