Washington (United States) (AFP) - The US Department of Justice pledged on Wednesday to review Epstein’s files, after media outlets accused the Donald Trump administration of concealing several documents in which the US president was mentioned and which particularly included allegations that he had committed a sexual assault on a minor girl.

Published on: 02/26/2026 - 13:19

On Tuesday, public radio "NPR" reported that the Justice Department, headed by Pam Bondi, a close ally of the Republican president, prevented the publication of documents related to accusations against him stating that he had sexually assaulted a minor girl.

According to NPR, it withdrew several documents containing accusations against Jeffrey Epstein, the American financial expert convicted of sexual crimes, and in which Donald Trump was mentioned from the public database linked to the financial expert convicted of sexual crimes who was found hanged in his cell in 2019 before his trial.

In a statement published on Wednesday evening, the Justice Department wrote that based on media reports, it appears that the documents released also lack files related to Epstein's partner, Ghilaine Maxwell.

She explained in a post on X, “As is the case with all the documents reported...the ministry is currently reviewing the documents that fall into this category.”

She added, "If it turns out that a document was incorrectly classified during the review process and it meets the criteria stipulated in the law, the ministry will, of course, publish it," referring to the law passed last year to force the administration to disclose all files on the Epstein case.

The Ministry had previously confirmed to

"The biggest cover-up"

Following NPR, the New York Times reported on Wednesday that among the unpublished documents were FBI memos summarizing interrogation sessions related to accusations made by a woman in 2019.

This woman came forward to the police after the arrest of the New York financial expert and said that she had been sexually assaulted decades ago when she was a minor by Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump.

The newspaper reported that out of four interrogations conducted, a summary of one interrogation was published containing accusations against Epstein.

Democratic representatives on the House Oversight Committee said, for their part, that they had investigated in recent weeks the FBI’s work on these accusations that were received in 2019.

They explained that "Democrats on the committee can confirm that the Department of Justice appears to have illegally withheld interrogations conducted by the FBI" of the alleged victim.

“Concealing direct evidence of an assault likely committed by the President of the United States is the most serious possible crime in this White House cover-up,” they wrote Wednesday on X.

They said, "It is the largest government cover-up in modern history... and we demand answers."

The Justice Department responded by urging them to “stop deceiving the broader public by alienating their radical, anti-Trump base.”

On January 30, the Department of Justice published “more than 3 million pages,” some of which were redacted, from the files on the Epstein case, asserting that the Trump administration had fulfilled its legal obligation to uncover this highly politically sensitive case.

But several victims criticized the deletion of passages from many documents, as well as the failure to prosecute any other alleged accomplices of Epstein.

Donald Trump, for his part, admits that he had contact with Epstein, but he was not aware of his criminal behavior and cut off his relationship with him before the prosecutions against him began.

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