Trump and Epstein: Five records, explained
One court-filed declaration and four FBI interview summaries, with links to each record and what it does—and doesn’t—establish.
The five records
The first is a declaration made under penalty of perjury in a civil suit. The other four are FBI agents’ summaries of interviews with one unnamed woman about a separate account. They are not signed statements by the interviewee, transcripts or FBI findings. The interview dates below are from 2019, not the dates the files became public.
Before opening: The linked documents describe alleged sexual abuse of minors. DOJ may open an age-verification screen before showing its PDFs.
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DECLARATION UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY
Jane Doe’s 2016 declaration
The anonymous plaintiff alleged that Trump and Epstein raped and sexually assaulted her in 1994, when she was 13. She signed as an adult. Trump denied the allegations, and the plaintiff voluntarily dismissed the case on November 4, 2016, before trial. The court did not decide whether the allegations were true.
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FBI INTERVIEW SUMMARY · NOT SWORN TESTIMONY
Interview 1: July 24, 2019
The woman described alleged abuse by Epstein. The first report does not name Trump.
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FBI INTERVIEW SUMMARY · NOT SWORN TESTIMONY
Interview 2: August 7, 2019
The woman alleged that Epstein introduced her to Trump in the 1980s and that Trump sexually assaulted her when she was between 13 and 15.
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FBI INTERVIEW SUMMARY · NOT SWORN TESTIMONY
Interview 3: August 20, 2019
She gave agents more detail about the incident she had described. It is a follow-up from the same interviewee, not a second account from another person.
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FBI INTERVIEW SUMMARY · NOT SWORN TESTIMONY
Interview 4: October 16, 2019
Agents asked whether she would discuss her contacts with Trump further. The summary does not record another detailed allegation against him.
What the records don’t establish
Trump denied the 2016 plaintiff’s allegations through his attorney. The White House rejected the allegations in the FBI records as baseless in its March 2026 response to NPR. The released summaries record what the woman told agents; they do not show that the FBI verified her allegations or how it assessed them. The 2016 withdrawal was not a ruling for or against the allegations.
When the records became public
The September 2016 court filing and November 2016 dismissal are separate from the 2019 interviews. One interview summary was already public before DOJ posted the other three on March 5, 2026. DOJ said documents had been incorrectly marked as duplicates. NPR, March 5 (updated March 6) ↗ · Associated Press, March 5 ↗ · Politico on the 2016 denial and withdrawal ↗
DOJ’s links opened an age check in this review. For the first interview, the guide relies on NPR’s February reporting for its scope; the other three were checked against the publisher-hosted PDF copies linked above. The June 25, 2026 court opinion in Phang v. Blanche ↗ identifies all four file numbers. That separate case concerns public access to records, not whether the alleged abuse happened. DOJ’s October 16 filing ↗ reports submitting underlying notes for private court review; those notes are not the summaries linked here.