The instructions of the woman who accused Trump in the Epstein case have been announced.
The U.S. Department of Justice has disclosed previously unreleased Federal Bureau of Investigation documents regarding financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
According to Reuters, recently released documents in the Epstein case also include a woman's statement accusing Donald Trump of sexual crimes.
The documents were published on the ministry's official website on March 5. The FBI materials state that in 2019, investigators questioned an unnamed woman four times regarding the Epstein case.
Previously, the Department of Justice had only provided brief information about one meeting. In that meeting, the woman had stated that Epstein had touched her inappropriately during her adolescence.
In the new documents, the woman stated that in the 1980s, when she was 13–15 years old, Epstein introduced her to Trump and that Trump attempted to force her into non-consensual sexual intercourse. Reuters has not been able to independently verify these claims.
The White House press secretary called these accusations "completely baseless and unsupported by any credible evidence." The Department of Justice also warned that some of the published materials may contain "unreliable and sensational claims" against Trump. It was stated that the documents were not published earlier because they were among 15 documents previously marked as "duplicate files."
These documents related to the Epstein case are being made public against the backdrop of congressional pressure. Democrats are accusing the Trump administration of hiding materials related to the president.
In particular, CNN reported that in the subsequently published documents on the Epstein case, some investigation data was "missing".
U.S. media reported that an anonymous claimant woman had filed lawsuits in civil courts several times. She claimed that during her adolescence, Trump and Epstein committed sexual crimes against her, but the lawsuits were later withdrawn and not reviewed in court.
In 2008, Jeffrey Epstein was convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution, and in 2019, he was accused of trafficking women, including minors, and soliciting prostitution. That same year, he died in a prison cell, and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell was later sentenced to 20 years in prison.
