The Justice Department quietly published three previously withheld FBI interview files on March 6, 2026, containing some of the most explosive allegations ever recorded against a sitting US president.
The documents, known asFBI 302 forms, are written summaries of formal investigative interviews and detail what a woman from South Carolina told federal agents in 2019 about alleged sexual assault by President Donald Trump in the 1980s, when she was between 13 and 15 years old.
The release came only after multiple news organisations, includingCNNandNPR, discovered the files were absent from the department's publicly searchable database, an omission that drew accusations of a deliberate cover-up. The White House has flatly denied the claims as fabricated. A DOJ source told theMiami Herald, which broke the credibility detail, that agents who interviewed the woman found her believable, and that four separate interviews would not have taken place if they did not.
When the DOJ released the final major tranche of the Epstein files onJan. 30, 2026,the three 302 forms from August and October 2019 were not among them. A DOJ-affiliated accountposted on Xthat the records had been 'incorrectly coded as duplicative,' claiming human error. The department said it had reviewed similar coded documents and found 15 total files misfiled in this way.
Congressional Democrats remained unconvinced. Rep. Robert Garcia of California, the top Democrat on theHouse Oversight Committee, previously disclosed that the files relating to this woman were also missing from the unredacted set made available for lawmakers to view in person at the Justice Department, a separate access point from the public database.
The subpoena pressure proved decisive. A majority of the House Oversight Committee voted to subpoenaAttorney General Pam Bondito testify about the handling of the files, with five Republicans joining Democrats to support the motion. The same day, the DOJ published the 302s.
The accuser's name is redacted throughout all four interview summaries. Her first interview, conducted onJuly 24, 2019, was included in the January release but contained no allegation against Trump — it focused on her alleged abuse by Epstein in South Carolina when she was approximately 13 years old. The three newly published files cover subsequent conversations onAug. 7, 2019, Aug. 20, 2019, and Oct. 16, 2019.
In the second interview, she told agents that Epstein had transported her from South Carolina to what she believed was either New York or New Jersey, where she entered a building she described as very tall with unusually large rooms. That was where she alleged Epstein introduced her to Trump.
According to theNPR reviewof the newly published files,she described Trump forcing her head toward his exposed genitalia; she bit him, at which point Trump allegedly struck her and had her removed from the room. The FBI summary, also described inan email chainthat appeared in earlier file releases, recorded the alleged sequence in similar language.
She also told agents she had two further interactions with Trump but stopped short of detailing them, asking to move on to another subject. During the fourth and final interview in October 2019, when agents asked whether she felt comfortable expanding on her contacts with Trump, she reportedly said she saw little point given how long ago the alleged incidents occurred and how unlikely she felt it was that anything could be done. According tomultiple reports corroborating the Miami Herald account, the FBI ultimately lost contact with her after that session. She declined to continue cooperating.
Source: International Business Times UK
