Overview
- Independent journalist Roger Sollenberger reported that a DOJ document referencing FBI interviews with a woman accusing Donald Trump briefly disappeared from the public Epstein catalogue before reappearing Thursday night.
- The restored record indicates agents interviewed the woman four times in 2019 about allegations stemming from the early-to-mid 1980s, including her account that Epstein introduced her to Trump in 1984.
- Only one of the four interview write-ups appears in the DOJ’s public Epstein release, though prosecutors provided all four to Ghislaine Maxwell’s defense team in trial discovery.
- Third-party repositories, including epstein-data.com and the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, preserved evidence of the document when it was not visible on the DOJ site.
- The first interview occurred July 24, 2019, and was entered into FBI files on August 9, a day before Epstein’s death; the DOJ has offered no public explanation for the removal, while Attorney General Pam Bondi has said there is no evidence implicating Trump.