DOJ Republishes 47,000 Epstein Files, Including FBI Notes With Unproven Allegations Against Trump

Overview

• The Justice Department began reposting about 47,635 Epstein-related files that had been taken offline, saying an internal review found they were incorrectly classified as duplicates.
• Newly posted records include three previously withheld 2019 FBI interview summaries from a woman who alleged Epstein abused her and, in some accounts, that Trump attempted to force oral sex on her in the early 1980s when she was about 13.
• The claims are uncorroborated, Trump denies wrongdoing, and he has not been criminally charged in connection with the Epstein-related allegations.
• DOJ has said some materials in the archive were submitted shortly before the 2020 election and contain false, sensational allegations, as the department works to correct classification and redaction errors from earlier releases.
• Alongside the reposted files, prosecutors released five Southern District of Florida prosecution memoranda, and the House Oversight Committee voted 24–19 to summon Attorney General Pam Bondi over the department’s handling of the disclosures.