Stephen Fowler

But only her first interview is in the files with no mention of Trump.

The Justice Department declined to answer NPR's questions on the record about these specific files, what's in them, and why they're not published.

A White House spokeswoman said Trump has been, quote, totally exonerated and he, quote, has done more for Epstein's victims than anyone before him.

Stephen Fowler, NPR News, Atlanta.

Good morning.

When we were looking in the files, we found this email from the FBI dated last July and released last month.

It listed all of the claims and tips that they'd received about Trump and what the disposition was.

There were plenty of things there that were unverifiable, fantastical, you had non-credible reports, except one.

That one, to paraphrase, accused Trump of sexually abusing a minor around 1983 when she was also being abused by Epstein, and it was sent to a field office to investigate further.

Okay, so what did that investigation find?

We don't know.

Other than it was notable enough to include on a Justice Department slideshow from last fall, also released last month, that summarizes the investigations into Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

There's a slide of, quote, prominent names.

At the top is Trump with two allegations, including this one about sexual abuse.

What's unusual is that it's the only place you can find mention of this accusation.

Well, it's more what other documents have shown us about these particular missing pages.

There's records showing the FBI interviewed this accuser four times.

Only one of those interviews is in the public Epstein database, and it does not mention Trump at all.

And the Justice Department's own tracking indicates there's at least 50 pages that exist but were not made public.

Sort of.