Recently published FBI documents reveal a woman’s 2019 allegations that Donald Trump assaulted her as a teenager, claims the White House calls baseless.
FBI Notes Detail Allegations
Three FBI memos from 2019, published by the Department of Justice, contain information from interviews with a woman who claimed American financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused her between her 13th and 15th birthdays.
During one interview with agents, the woman stated that Epstein transported her to New York or New Jersey and took her to a “very tall building,” where she met with Donald Trump (the politician was not yet President of the United States at the time).
Woman’s Account of Incident
According to the woman, Trump told her he would “teach a little girl how to behave,” unzipped his pants, and pushed her head toward his penis. She told FBI agents that she bit Trump in that area. The then-future president, she said, became angry, hit her, and ordered to “take that bitch away.”
White House Response
“It is unclear what happened to the FBI investigation into the woman’s claims. In an email sent between FBI agents last year, which is in the Department of Justice files, it was noted that ‘one identified victim admitted to abuses by Trump, but ultimately refused to cooperate,’ though it was not specified if this is the same person,” reports CNN.com.
Earlier, Democrats accused officials of possibly intentionally hiding materials containing accusations against Donald Trump.
Political Rebuttal
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, quoted by Politico, described the woman’s testimony as “completely baseless accusations, supported by zero evidence, coming from a woman with a deeply disturbed psychological state and a rich criminal past.”
“The complete baselessness of these accusations is also confirmed by the obvious fact that the Department of Justice under President Joe Biden knew about them for four years and did nothing with them – because it knew that President Trump absolutely did nothing wrong,” Leavitt noted.
The Jeffrey Epstein Affair
At the end of January, the US Department of Justice published over 3 million additional pages (nearly 3.5 million pages in total) of documents from the case files of financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. They include correspondence from Epstein with prominent individuals from various countries, including politicians, or mentions of them.
Epstein was convicted in 2008 by a Florida state court for sexually exploiting minors. In 2019, federal prosecutors charged him with trafficking minors for sexual exploitation. In the same year, he committed suicide in custody.
