00:00Recently released documents from the U.S. Department of Justice connected to the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein have revealed new
00:05details about a woman who accused U.S. President Donald Trump of misconduct when she was 13 years old.
00:11According to the documents, the woman spoke with FBI investigators four separate times in 2019.
00:16Those interviews were originally kept confidential, but were later released as part of a larger batch of records connected to
00:22Epstein.
00:22During those interviews, the woman described alleged exploitation by Epstein.
00:25She said Epstein first began contacting her when she was between 13 and 15 years old and later introduced her
00:31to several other men.
00:32The woman told investigators that Epstein initially contacted her after responding to a babysitting advertisement placed by her mother, who
00:38worked as a real estate agent in South Carolina.
00:41According to her account, Epstein later took her to meet Donald Trump at a large building in the New York
00:45or New Jersey area during the mid-1980s, around the time Trump was involved in casino development projects in Atlantic
00:51City.
00:51According to the FBI summary included in the documents, the woman alleged that Trump asked other people in the room
00:57to leave before the incident she described took place.
00:59She claimed that Trump pressured her to perform an inappropriate act.
01:02In a later interview with investigators, she also alleged that Trump grabbed her hair and struck her after she resisted.
01:07The documents also state that the woman told investigators Epstein threatened her using explicit photographs and introduced her to other
01:13men during that period.
01:15A report by the South Carolina newspaper The Post and Courier states that several details from the woman's interviews about
01:20her personal background were independently confirmed using archived government records and older news reports.
01:25For example, records confirm that her mother was accused of embezzling around $22,000 from her employer in the mid
01:31-1980s and later served time in federal prison near Columbia, South Carolina.
01:35However, the confirmed details relate only to the woman's personal background and do not directly prove the allegations made against
01:41Donald Trump.
01:42The White House responded through Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt, who described the accusations as completely baseless.
01:48Donald Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing related to Jeffrey Epstein and has not been charged with any crime.
01:54The documents were released after the Justice Department stated that several files had previously been withheld because they were mistakenly
02:00labeled as duplicates.
02:01Officials later released the additional records as part of a broader transparency effort related to the Epstein investigation.
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