Donald Trump has always denied wrongdoing with regard to his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump has once again featured in fresh Epstein files (Image: Getty)
Newly released documents from the investigation into the late pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein feature claims about Donald Trump, which the Department of Justice has branded “untrue and sensationalist”.
These claims include a person who rang the FBI alleging that their friend was forced to perform oral sex on Trump, before biting him afterwards in the US state of New Jersey, 35 years ago. The FBI sent the lead to a Washington field office to conduct an interview.
The claim in the DoJ release reads: “[Redacted] reported an unidentified female friend who was forced to perform oral sex on President Trump approximately 35 years ago in NJ. The friend told Alexis that she was approximately 13-14 years old when this occurred, and the friend allegedly bit President Trump while performing oral sex. The friend was allegedly hit in the face after she laughed about biting President Trump. The friend said she was also abused by Epstein.”
An extract from the newly released Epstein files (Image: United States Department of Justice)
The DoJ said in a statement: “This production may include fake or falsely submitted images, documents or videos, as everything that was sent to the FBI by the public was included in the production that is responsive to the Act. Some of the documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election. To be clear, the claims are unfounded and false, and if they have a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponised against President Trump already.”
The Epstein files are sweeping and name many high-profile figures. There is no suggestion that being named in the files implies wrongdoing.
The huge cache of documents includes email correspondence between prosecutors, printouts of thousands of emails that Epstein either sent or received, news clippings, and reports written by FBI agents summarising their interviews with witnesses and alleged victims in the investigation.
As with many previous releases of documents related to Epstein, much material was blacked out. Some of the reports on FBI interviews had entire pages blacked out, along with the names of the people being interviewed.
The Justice Department said Friday that it was releasing many more records from its investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein, resuming disclosures under a law intended to reveal what the Government knew about the millionaire financier’s sexual abuse of young girls and his interactions with rich and powerful people, including Donald Trump and Bill Clinton.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the department was releasing more than 3 million pages of documents in the latest Epstein disclosure, along with more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images. The files, which were being posted to the department’s website, include some of the several million pages of records that officials said were withheld from an initial release of documents in December.
The documents were disclosed under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the law enacted after months of public and political pressure that requires the Government to open its files on the late financier and his confidant and onetime girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell.
