Trump Hit by New Epstein Files Bombshell Before Big Speech

A damning report on the Epstein files threatens to overshadow President Donald Trump’s upcoming State of the Union address.

An investigation by National Public Radio (NPR), published the morning of the president’s State of the Union address, alleges that the Justice Department concealed dozens of documents from the Epstein case file that could relate to a woman who accuses Trump and Jeffrey Epstein of sexually assaulting her when she was a minor.

The FBI took the allegations against the president very seriously, sending agents to interview the accuser four times in 2019. However, only the documents from the first interview have been made public, as revealed this month by independent journalist Roger Sullenberger.

However, NPR reports that the missing documents from the three subsequent interviews “appear to include more than 50 pages” of documents detailing the FBI sessions with the accuser, who claims she was about 13 years old when she was assaulted by the two men in the early 1980s.

National Public Radio (NPR) reported that it examined the serial numbers and found that the Justice Department indexes dozens of pages without making them public.

According to the NPR report, the first FBI interview with the prosecutor handling the Trump case, which resulted in no charges being filed against the president, was part of the massive release of documents by the Justice Department late last month. The content of the three subsequent alleged interviews remains unknown.

The White House did not respond to an emailed request for comment. When contacted about this, Justice Department spokeswoman Natalie Baldassari stated that NPR had incorrectly reported the department’s refusal to answer questions regarding what she called missing files.

“We did not delete anything, and as we have always said, all requested documents have been provided,” Baldassari said in an email to The Daily Beast. She added that the documents missing from the Justice Department’s website “fall into one of the following categories: duplicates, classified documents, or documents that are part of an ongoing federal investigation.”

NPR’s surprising investigation comes a week after Sullenberger, formerly of The Daily Beast, revealed that files related to interviews with Trump’s accuser had disappeared from the Justice Department’s public database concerning the Epstein case. This revelation contradicts Attorney General Pam Bondi’s claims that the more than three million pages of Epstein documents she released represented the entirety of the evidence available to the Justice Department in this case.

In total, NPR reported that 53 pages of documents and interview notes were missing from the public database.

Trump’s accuser claims he forced her to lower her head and coerced her into performing oral sex on him after Epstein presented them. This allegation appears in an internal FBI presentation, among the Epstein documents released by the Justice Department.

According to this internal FBI document, the woman told investigators that she retaliated against Trump by biting his penis. She said Trump hit her on the head and threw her out, an allegation included in a presentation detailing accusations against other prominent figures in the federal investigations into Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

An investigation by National Public Radio (NPR) also revealed that the Justice Department removed some documents from its public database without explanation.

Specifically, NPR reported that the U.S. Department of Justice released certain documents related to Maxwell’s trial on January 30, before removing them. It was noted that some, but not all, of these documents have since been made available online again.

NPR also reported that the FBI circulated internally allegations about Epstein and Trump last summer, but deemed most of them unverifiable or unreliable. However, four interviews with the president’s accuser—the first of which took place on July 24, 2019—suggest that the FBI considered her allegations credible enough to conduct an investigation.

The documents show that, during her initial interview with investigators, the woman asked agents to show her a cropped image of Epstein—one in which Trump did not appear—in order to identify the convicted financier as one of the men who assaulted her.

The woman told investigators she cropped the image to exclude Trump because she feared implicating others, especially public figures, for fear of retaliation. Trump was president of the United States at the time of the interview. Epstein died in his cell the following month, on August 10, 2019. Authorities ruled it a suicide.

According to NPR, the woman’s personal information matches that of a plaintiff who filed a lawsuit against Epstein’s estate in December 2019. Trump was not named in that lawsuit, and the plaintiff withdrew it after reaching an out-of-court settlement in 2021.

An FBI document from last summer referenced the accusation against Trump but stated that the plaintiff “ultimately declined to cooperate.”