The Daily Populous Saturday March 7th, 2026 morning edition
Authored by latintimes.com and submitted by Aggravating_Money992

The Justice Department released three previously withheld FBI interview summaries from 2019 in which a woman alleged that Jeffrey Epstein trafficked her to Donald Trump when she was a minor in the 1980s.

The allegations are uncorroborated, and the FBI summaries do not indicate that agents were able to verify the claims, as the Miami Herald reported.

The newly released reports, known as FBI 302s, were follow-up interviews conducted between August and October 2019 during the federal investigation into Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. The woman had first been interviewed on July 24, 2019, in an FBI report that was included in the Epstein files released in January, though that initial summary did not name Trump, as The Herald points out.

In the second interview, the woman told agents that Epstein took her from South Carolina to either New York or New Jersey when she was between 13 and 15 years old and introduced her to Trump. According to the FBI summary, she recalled Trump telling her, "Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be."

She alleged that he then sexually assaulted her. In a later interview, she clarified that after she bit him, Trump "pulled her hair and punched her on the side of the head," according to the report.

The woman also told agents she and her mother later received death threats and had twice been run off the road. According to the FBI summary, callers told her, "We know where you're at, you need to keep your mouth shut." In her final interview, in October 2019, she told agents she felt "what's the point?" and declined to provide further details.

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt called the allegations "baseless" in a statement to The Herald and said Trump had been "totally exonerated by the release of the Epstein Files." Earlier this year, the Justice Department had also described similar claims in the files as "unfounded and false," as ABC News points out.

A Justice Department source told the Miami Herald that agents considered the woman credible, though the FBI ultimately lost contact with her after she declined to continue cooperating. The Justice Department said Thursday in a post on X that the reports had originally been withheld because they were mistakenly coded as "duplicative."

As we said a week ago, the Department of Justice reviewed public allegations that 302 documents originally produced to Ghislaine Maxwell in discovery of her criminal case were missing from the EFTA library. As we have consistently done, if any member of the public reported… https://t.co/y7snlxbT0K — DOJ Rapid Response (@DOJRR47) March 5, 2026

The release comes amid political debate over the Epstein files. On Wednesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the administration appeared "existentially tied" to the issue and questioned whether recent military actions abroad were distracting from developments related to the files. Trump has denied wrongdoing in connection with Epstein.

No-Tomatillo3698 on March 6th, 2026 at 18:43 UTC »

If they are releasing this, imagine what they are hiding 😬

JasonRBoone on March 6th, 2026 at 18:26 UTC »

"uncorroborated"

Yeah well when one of the possible corroborators died in prison under mysterious circumstances ...yeah

Cardocthian on March 6th, 2026 at 18:20 UTC »

Remember all, Uncorroborated doesn't mean disproven. It means they haven't followed up on the investigation yet.