The US Department of Justice warned that the Epstein files contained “unfounded and false” claims about President Trump as it released three million new pages of documents.
The president is mentioned more than 3,000 times in the latest batch of documents. Trump administration officials said “untrue and sensationalist” claims about the president submitted just before the 2020 election were included in the 3.5 million pages published online.
“To be clear, the claims are unfounded and false, and if they have a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponised against President Trump already,” the Department of Justice (DoJ) said.
Some of the mentions of Trump are clippings from newspaper articles or references to the president in emails. There is also a list compiled by the DoJ of accusations made against him by women. None have ever been substantiated.
One witness recounts how their female friend alleged she was forced to perform oral sex on Trump at about the age of 13 or 14 in New Jersey.
Another complainant deemed “not credible” by investigators alleged that the Trump golf course in Rancho Palos Verdes in California was at the centre of a sex-trafficking ring between 1995 and 1996.
Investigators appeared sceptical of some of the most lurid allegations made against Trump. “Some of these individuals are reporting second-hand information,” one of the officers noted.
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