On March 6, 2026, PBS reported on the latest release of files from the Epstein files that includes transcripts of interviews with a young woman who said that she was assaulted by Trump in the 1980s when she was 13-15 years of age. These transcripts were not released initially but came out only after multiple news outlets noticed that they were missing.

The transcripts are of interviews conducted by FBI agents, first with a woman who said a friend had contacted her to say that, as girl of 13-15, she had had abusive sexual encounters with Epstein, Trump, and other men about 35 years ago in New Jersey. This woman contacted the FBI National Threat Operations Center (NTOC). The FBI then interviewed the friend in question on 08/07/2019 who gave graphic details of the sexual abuse she had suffered as a young girl at the hands of sexual encounters with Trump, Epstein, and other men, and they interviewed her again on 08/20/2019 where she provided more details. She said that years later, she and her mother had been blackmailed and received threatening phone calls and attempts to run her off the road

The PBS reporter Ali Rogin explains to PBS host Geoff Bennett that these documents mentioning Trump were not part of the original release of Epstein files and only emerged after the furor over the department of justice holding back documents.

Geoff, these documents are known as 302 files. There’s summaries of three interviews the FBI conducted with this accuser in which she alleges that Epstein brought her to meet Trump some time between when she was age 13 and 15.

She details in very graphic terms Trump’s sexual, alleged sexual assault against her and how she fought back.
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These three summaries are actually part of a set of four. And that other document was released as part of that initial major tranche we saw in late January.

That summary was an interview in which the accuser focused on Epstein and didn’t mention Trump. These others also — these others, of course, mention the Trump allegations. Reporters caught this discrepancy because descriptions of all four summaries of the interviews were included in a list that was given to attorneys for Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell.

In a statement released on social media, the Department of Justice said the interviews had been incorrectly deemed duplicative and were subsequently published. The DOJ also says that the unredacted versions of the documents will be available for members of Congress to review.

But reporters have noted that, even still, there are additional documents that remain missing. Independent journalist Roger Sollenberger has been following this closely. And he noted that there are at least 37 pages still missing. That includes notes that informed these summaries, as well as internal communication that would memorialize how the situation with the accuser was resolved.
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While these allegations remain uncorroborated, there is new reporting Geoff tonight from Julie K. Brown of The Miami Herald, who’s broken much of the Epstein story, saying that DOJ officials who spoke to this woman found her to be credible and that they wouldn’t have interviewed her four times if they didn’t.

The DoJ’s stated reasons for not originally releasing these files, because they mistakenly thought they were duplicative, strain credulity. It is far more likely that it was because they mentioned Trump. That increases the likelihood that there are yet more withheld documents that implicate Trump.

You read Julie Brown’s story here.

Her first interview, on July 24, 2019, was contained in the Epstein files that were released by the DOJ in January. That report, which was redacted, said that the woman alleged she was raped by Jeffrey Epstein in the 1980s, when she was about 13 and living in Hilton Head, South Carolina, with her mother. Her mother, who worked in real estate, had put an advertisement for babysitting services in a packet provided to her tenants. Epstein responded, the report said, and she sent her daughter. Epstein gave her drugs and raped her over the course of several years, the report said.
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She also said that Epstein blackmailed her mother by saying he had explicit photographs of her daughter, and that her mother later went to prison for embezzling money from her job in an effort to purchase the photos from Epstein.

The woman could not name any of the other men Epstein trafficked her to, except for a man she identified as “Jim Atkins,” whom she believed worked for an Ohio university. The Miami Herald could not locate him on deadline. During her third interview with agents, she detailed how she and her mother had received numerous death threats and had twice been run off the road. She said she felt she was being threatened by Epstein and Trump. She said the callers told her “we know where you’re at, you need to keep your mouth shut.”
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In the last interview, in October 2019, she said she felt “what’s the point?” The assaults had taken place so long ago, she said, that she felt nothing could be done now.
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, in an emailed statement to the Herald, said the woman’s accusations had no validity. “As we have said countless times, President Trump has been totally exonerated by the release of the Epstein Files.” She said the woman’s statements were backed by “zero credible evidence from a sadly disturbed woman who has an extensive criminal history.”

The Herald, which is not naming the woman, found no “extensive” criminal history for her. She was arrested for theft in the past, public records show, but the charges were dismissed.

The odious Leavitt, just like her boss, lies like she breathes and nothing she says should be taken at face value.