Dozens of FBI witness interviews are missing from the Epstein files published in early February, including those related to Donald Trump. This despite the fact that the US Department of Justice claimed to have now published all relevant documents. 7 important questions and answers.
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Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein with model Ingrid Seynhaeve. Image: House Oversight Democrats
The criticism has always been there, and so have the suspicions: the US Department of Justice has probably not published all the documents on the Epstein case. According to investigations by various media, including CNN, It is now clear: there is a lot missing.
What is particularly explosive is that the missing documents include, among other things, witness interviews in connection with possible sexual crimes committed by US President Donald Trump.
What’s it about?
US media have compared various minutes and conversation notes with the published Epstein files. A specific evidence log that was presented to the lawyers of Epstein’s friend and accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell at the time contains serial numbers for approximately 325 FBI witness interview logs. More than 90 of those protocols – more than a quarter of the list – are not found on the Justice Department’s website, according to a CNN review.
Among the missing transcripts are three interviews related to a woman who told investigators that Epstein had repeatedly abused her since she was 13. Particularly explosive: She also accuses Trump of sexually abusing her. It has only now become known that the allegations come from the same – and therefore credible – source.
Trump himself has repeatedly emphasized that he did not commit any wrongdoing in connection with the Epstein affair. And a Justice Department spokeswoman denied that any Epstein records had been deleted, emphasizing that the department was following the law.
Are these media reports credible?
Yes. The details of the missing documents related to the Trump accuser were previously reported National Public Radio (NPR) and MSNow and the independent journalist Roger Sollenberger. Now CNN has also done its own research and comes to the same conclusion.
CNN emphasizes that it is possible that some of the documents referenced in the Maxwell evidence transcripts exist elsewhere in the files. However, this would only be the case if they were listed in the logs without the serial numbers or with blacked out serial numbers.
What did the witness say?
According to media reports, the files show: The woman in question initially called an FBI hotline on July 10, 2019, a few days after Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest, and reported that she had become a victim of him.
As a result of this information, the woman was invited by the FBI for questioning. She alleged that Epstein repeatedly abused her in a home in South Carolina. This after he responded to an ad for babysitting services. The abuse began when she was about 13 years old, the woman said.
The Justice Department took the woman’s allegations into account in the summer of 2025 comprehensive 21-page internal PowerPoint presentation about the government’s investigation into Epstein and convicted co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell. On slide number 18, entitled “Celebrity Names,” which contains a number of then-unpublic allegations against prominent figures, the same victim is listed again – this time with allegations against Trump.
Image: US Department of Justice
«[GESCHWÄRZT] stated that Epstein introduced her to Trump, who then pushed her head toward his exposed penis, whereupon she bit him […] In response, Trump hit her in the head and threw her out.” According to the presentation, the victim was “approximately 13 to 15 years old at the time of the incident.” The alleged assault occurred in the mid-1980s.
Additional FBI documents – an interview between the FBI agents and the victim and his lawyer – describe the following: At one point in the interview, when the woman showed investigators a well-known photo of Trump and Epstein together that a friend had sent her, her lawyer said, according to the document, that she was “concerned about incriminating other people, particularly well-known personalities, for fear of retaliation.”
This is the only one of the four interviews that the Ministry of Justice made public.
Is this woman credible?
Yes.
According to the newly released files, the FBI disseminated in late July and early August 2025 internally a list with allegations related to Epstein that mentioned Trump. This list, compiled by the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center, contained numerous allegations against the US president. The investigators classified virtually all allegations as unverifiable or unbelievable.
Epstein files from January 30, 2026
This is consistent with media reports that many of these allegations emerged shortly before his election as president or that the people concerned could not be contacted.
With the witness mentioned, however, things seemed to be different. She was apparently deemed credible, which is why the FBI invited her for questioning in the first place. She was ultimately interviewed four times in total. However, only the first interview from July 24, 2019 is publicly available; Trump is not mentioned in it.
What’s new – and why the allegations have become more explosive: NPR, MS Now and Co. found out that the victim behind the allegations against Trump and the witness surrounding Epstein and Maxwell are the same person.
Additionally, a credible source confirmed to MS Now that it is the same woman.
MS Now’s research:
While her name is blacked out in the files, NPR (and others) found clear evidence that the woman also appears in other points in the Epstein files. They base this suspicion on the fact that the information about the woman’s biography is identical. They also match public reports about a South Carolina victim who was relocated to Vancouver and filed a lawsuit against Epstein. The victim received a settlement from Epstein’s estate in 2021.
This made the image of the witness and her allegations clear.
“The allegations and FBI questioning are groundbreaking revelations that undermine the White House’s assurances that Trump was not charged with wrongdoing and instead show that the US government was aware of a credible Trump accuser in the Epstein files.”
Journalist Roger Sollenberger
What became of the FBI’s investigation into this witness is unknown.
Are there any other credible allegations against Trump?
Yes. The Justice Department’s PowerPoint presentation lists a second alleged victim who also appears to have been deemed credible.
Epstein introduced this victim to Trump when she was 14 years old and said: “She’s good, right?” Trump agreed with him. This victim must enjoy “immense credibility” from the Justice Department, said Sollenberger. Because: This claim about an incident at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in 1994 also comes from a key witness for the government – her testimony in court helped prosecutors convict Ghislaine Maxwell, the files show.
Although this witness claims that she was not a victim of Trump, “she significantly undermines one of the president’s central defense strategies,” Sollenberger argues: that Trump, despite years of close friendship and social contacts, did not know that Epstein was abusing underage girls and that he cut ties with him as soon as he found out about it.
Are there any other missing documents?
That’s how it seems, because according to CNN, the above-mentioned witness is not an isolated case: Several of Epstein’s victims said they had searched the Justice Department’s website in recent weeks for files documenting their own interrogations by the FBI – but without success.
“We’ve all been looking for our victim impact statements,” a woman who was abused by Epstein when she was 22 told CNN. Heavily redacted and missing interrogation transcripts indicate that “the Justice Department is actually manipulating the entire country,” the woman said.
What is the (preliminary) conclusion?
That the Justice Department probably lied. Specifically, it was released three weeks ago, when the supposedly last documents on Jeffrey Epstein were published a press release announce:
“Some of the documents contain untrue and sensationalized allegations against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI shortly before the 2020 election. “To be clear, these claims are baseless and false, and if they had even an ounce of credibility, they would surely have already been used against President Trump.”
Based on the now linked published and previously unpublished documents, it now appears that there is no indication that the FBI or the Justice Department classified the witness described as unreliable. What’s more, the fact that she was an important witness against Ghislaine Maxwell shows the opposite.
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