The United States Department of Justice has released additional records from the investigation into disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, including documents summarising accusations made against Donald Trump by an unidentified woman.
According to the records published on Thursday, agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) interviewed the woman four times in 2019 as part of the wider probe into Epstein’s alleged sex-trafficking network.
The newly disclosed documents show that during one of the interviews, the woman claimed that Trump attempted to force her to perform oral sex after Epstein introduced her to the future president in either New York or New Jersey during the 1980s, when she said she was between 13 and 15 years old.
The Justice Department had previously confirmed that the interviews took place but had only released a summary of one meeting in which the woman accused Epstein of molesting her as a teenager.
The latest documents, posted on the department’s website, reveal further details of the allegations contained in the FBI interview summaries.
Responding to the claims, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt dismissed the accusations, describing them as “completely baseless accusations backed by zero credible evidence.”
The Justice Department also cautioned that some of the materials include “untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump.” The agency noted that the documents were part of 15 records that had previously been “incorrectly coded as duplicative” and therefore were not published earlier.
Reuters reported that it could not independently verify the accuracy of the woman’s allegations. FBI records suggest that investigators stopped interviewing the woman later in 2019.
The release of the documents comes as the Justice Department faces scrutiny in Congress over its handling of records related to the Epstein investigation. Lawmakers have demanded greater transparency regarding the disclosure of files connected to the case.
Democratic members of the United States House of Representatives have accused the administration of concealing records related to Trump and voted to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi to testify about how the government is managing the release of the documents.
Trump has previously said that his association with Epstein ended in the mid-2000s and that he was unaware of the financier’s alleged sexual abuse activities.
Earlier records released by the Justice Department indicated that Trump flew several times on Epstein’s private plane in the 1990s, something Trump has denied.
In the final FBI interview report from October 2019, conducted during Trump’s first presidency, agents asked the woman whether she would be willing to provide further information about the allegations.
According to the report, she responded by questioning the purpose of doing so at that stage of her life, saying there was a strong possibility that nothing could be done about the claims.
