Claim: In December 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice released an FBI tip in which a complainant alleged President Donald Trump witnessed her uncle kill her newborn child and dispose of the body in Lake Michigan when she was 13 and being trafficked for sex by Jeffrey Epstein.
In an email to Snopes, the FBI declined to comment on whether it had investigated the tip.
While the tip alleged the incident occurred in 1984, Trump reportedly did not meet Epstein until the late 1980s.
In 2002, Trump told New York magazine he'd known Epstein for 15 years — suggesting they met in or around 1987.
It's unclear why Trump and Epstein would have been in a small town in Michigan when neither of them had any documented links to the immediate area at the time.
Trump did own a riverboat casino on Lake Michigan for years — but that riverboat, based in Gary, Indiana, did not open until 1996, according to news reports from the time.
The document containing an FBI tip alleging Trump witnessed infanticide involving an Epstein victim is authentic and was available on the DOJ website. »