The allegation that Donald Trump sexually abused a 13-year-old girl decades ago while he was friends with Jeffrey Epstein has been circulating on the Internet since Trump’s first presidential campaign.
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The allegation has been circulating for years and years, but never seems to come to fruition.
Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Justice Department may have given new life to the allegation when they chose to illegally withhold FBI interviews with the accuser that were conducted in 2019 when the Epstein files were released.
NPR reported:
Some files have not been made public despite a law requiring their disclosure. These include what appear to be more than 50 pages of interviews with the FBI, as well as notes from conversations with a woman who accused Trump of sexual abuse decades ago when she was a minor.
NPR reviewed several sets of unique serial numbers appearing before and after the pages in question, affixed to documents from the Epstein Files database, FBI files, emails and discovery document logs in the latest tranche of documents released in late January. NPR’s investigation uncovered dozens of pages that appear to have been cataloged by the Justice Department but not shared publicly.
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee were already investigating the woman’s allegations against Trump, but they opened a second investigation into the Justice Department’s conduct.
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