FBI Documents Unsealed, Trump's Name Linked to Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse

Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia - A summary of interviews with a woman who made claims of sexual abuse by Donald Trump has been released to the public. The FBI documents released form part of the Epstein case files held by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). The disclosures come after reports that the documents had disappeared from the DOJ database, prompting Democratic lawmakers to accuse officials of cover-up.

Citing BBC on Sunday, March 8, 2026, the DOJ said that they had inadvertently withheld the files during review because they were misclassified as duplicates.

Several memoranda describe a series of interviews in 2019 with the unnamed woman, who levelled unverified claims against Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. President Trump has consistently denied wrongdoing in relation to the late sex offender.

Referring to one of the three memos, the unnamed woman told the FBI during the interview that she was introduced to Trump by Epstein in the 1980s when she was a teenager. She accused both men of sexually abusing her when she was between 13 and 15 years old.

According to the filings, the FBI did not contact the woman further after the interview. It remains unclear whether Trump and Epstein were acquainted during the period the woman alleged as the time of the incidents.

In a statement responding to the newly published allegations, the White House said the allegations are completely unfounded and unsupported by credible evidence.

“As we have said repeatedly, President Trump has been fully vindicated from allegations with the release of the Epstein Files,” said White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.

She added that the DOJ under Joe Biden’s administration did not bring charges against Trump on the basis of those allegations, noting that they knew the President had not committed any wrongdoing.

For context, Trump’s name appears thousands of times in the files released by the DOJ, including in emails and correspondence sent by Jeffrey Epstein himself to other people.

Trump has not been charged with any crime by the Epstein victims that have emerged thus far.

In addition to the FBI witness interview summaries, including the unnamed woman’s 2019 interview, the complete Epstein dossier also contains lists of accusations made against Trump by a caller to the FBI’s National Threat Operations Centre tip line.

The lists include numerous allegations of sexual misconduct aimed at Trump, Epstein, and other high-profile figures. Many of these allegations appear to be based on unverified information and are often not supported by strong evidence.

After the Epstein files were released in January, the DOJ said that some documents contained false and sensational claims about the President Trump were handed over to the FBI just before the 2020 election.

“To be clear, those claims are baseless and false, and if they had any credibility at all, they would have been used as a weapon against President Trump.”

The three newly published memos follow reports in US media that the memos were incorrectly held back in the initial Epstein file release.

NPR first reported that the indices and serial numbers in the files indicate that the FBI conducted four interviews with the woman in 2019 as part of its investigation into Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who was jailed in 2022 for sex trafficking.

Nevertheless, according to NPR and other media including the New York Times, the three interview summaries and related notes, totaling more than 50 pages, were not available on the DOJ website.

If traced, Epstein seems to have been friends with Trump for several years. They later quarreled in the early 2000s, according to Trump, two years before Epstein was first arrested.

Earlier this week, a House committee voted to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi to answer questions about the DOJ’s handling of the Epstein files.

Republican members of the House Oversight Committee joined Democrats in voting for him to be called as a witness.

In November 2026, Congress passed a law requiring the DOJ to release all materials from its Epstein investigation. Millions of documents have since been released.

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