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53 Pages
Vanish
from
Epstein
Dossier
on Trump
Derick
Adams -
Crime/Law
Tell Us
USA News
Network
WASHINGTON
-
Federal
records
released
under
the
Epstein
Files
Transparency
Act are
missing
dozens
of pages
that
relate
to
sexual
abuse
allegations
against
President
Donald
Trump,
raising
new
questions
about
how his
own
Justice
Department
has
handled
the
politically
explosive
archive.
The gaps
came to
light
after
NPR
reporters
and
other
journalists
compared
serial
numbers
and
internal
discovery
logs
from the
Jeffrey
Epstein
and
Ghislaine
Maxwell
investigations
with the
material
posted
in the
Justice
Department’s
online
database.
They
found
that at
least 53
pages of
FBI
interview
summaries
and
related
notes,
many
tied to
a woman
who says
Trump
sexually
abused
her when
she was
a minor,
are
referenced
in
government
records
but do
not
appear
in the
public
release.
According
to these
reports,
the
woman
was
interviewed
by the
FBI four
times as
part of
the
broader
Epstein
probe,
but only
one of
those
interview
memos is
currently
available
on the
government
site and
it
contains
no
mention
of
Trump,
despite
internal
FBI
correspondence
indicating
that she
separately
accused
him of
sexual
assault.
Legal
analyst
Lisa
Rubin
has
pointed
to an
internal
FBI
presentation
from the
summer
of 2025
that
identifies
the
accuser
in the
missing
documents
as the
same
person
who
alleged
that
Trump
assaulted
her
decades
ago,
when she
was
underage.
The
apparent
omissions
are
detailed
in a log
of
discovery
material
turned
over in
the
Maxwell
case,
where 15
documents
associated
with
this
accuser
are
listed
but only
seven
appear
in the
public
database;
the
rest,
including
notes
from
three
interviews,
cannot
be found
in the
files
that DOJ
has
posted.
NPR’s
review
of
multiple
sets of
serial
numbers
stamped
onto the
Epstein
records
suggests
that 53
pages of
victim
interview
documents
and
notes
that
should
be
present
are
missing
from the
online
archive.
The
Justice
Department,
which is
responsible
for
implementing
the 2025
Epstein
Files
Transparency
Act and
managing
a
release
of
millions
of
pages,
has not
offered
a
detailed
public
explanation
for the
discrepancies.
Officials
have
said
broadly
that
some
records
are
being
withheld
to
protect
victims’
identities,
to
comply
with
legal
privileges,
and to
avoid
jeopardizing
any
ongoing
investigations,
but they
have not
clarified
whether
those
rules
apply to
the
missing
Trump-related
pages or
why
documents
apparently
logged
as
responsive
never
appeared
in the
database.
Spokespeople
and
lawyers
aligned
with the
Trump
administration
have
insisted
that no
material
has been
suppressed
for
political
reasons,
even as
outside
reviewers
say the
government’s
own
paperwork
does not
match
the
archive
the
public
can see.
In
earlier
statements
about
the
broader
release,
the
department
suggested
that
some
claims
involving
Trump in
the
Epstein
files
are
unfounded
or
false,
while at
the same
time
acknowledging
that
roughly
200,000
pages
remain
withheld
under
various
exemptions.
Critics
in
Congress
and
among
victims’
advocates
say the
missing
pages
reinforce
fears
that the
department
has not
fully
complied
with the
transparency
law,
especially
where
powerful
figures
are
concerned.
They
argue
that
without
a clear,
document-by-document
accounting
of what
has been
removed
and why,
the
public
cannot
know
whether
key
evidence
about
alleged
abuse by
Trump
and
others
has been
hidden,
mishandled
or
simply
lost
inside a
system
that
officials
themselves
admit
has
struggled
to keep
control
over
millions
of
sensitive
records.
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