Overview
- Oversight Democrats led by Rep. Robert Garcia say unredacted DOJ logs show FBI interviews with a survivor who accused President Trump appear to be missing, and they have opened a parallel investigation.
- NPR’s examination of serial numbers and discovery logs found more than 50 pages of FBI interviews and notes tied to that woman not posted online, with only her first 2019 interview publicly available.
- An internal FBI presentation summarized the woman’s allegation that Epstein introduced her to Trump and described a forced sexual act when she was a minor, yet related interview memoranda are not in the public files.
- The Justice Department says it has not deleted any records and argues that non-posted documents are duplicates, privileged, part of ongoing investigations, or temporarily removed for additional victim redactions before being restored.
- The Epstein Files Transparency Act mandates broad disclosure with limited redactions, and media comparisons show some Trump-referencing documents were briefly taken down and later reuploaded while others remain unavailable.