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Now, we do have some of those files, 16 pages covering three other interviews, plus a two-page sheet detailing the initial tip that was called in.
These interviews do go into more explicit detail about what Trump was alleged to have done to her when she was a teenager, forcing her head down onto his penis.
She allegedly bit it.
He said foul words and hit her head.
There's also an interview, which was the final one in 2019.
And this woman was asked whether she, quote, felt comfortable detailing her contacts with Trump.
And she reportedly asked, quote, what the point would be of providing this information at this point in her life when there was a strong possibility nothing could be done about it.
Remember, these interviews took place during Trump's first term in office.
We should also note here that Trump denies any wrongdoing related to Epstein and has not been charged with a crime.
The White House has repeatedly said that Trump is, quote, totally exonerated by the Epstein files.
The latest statement from White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt says that these are completely baseless accusations backed by zero credible evidence.
They also point on background the two different articles that claim to discredit the woman's accusations.
But we haven't verified those things.
In fact, Tam, looking at the release of these documents, it doesn't actually shine any more light on how credible federal investigators viewed these claims or how they were resolved or why these allegations were included in the Justice Department slide presentation summarizing the cases against Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.
It's been a shifting story.
I mean, back when the Epstein files were released on January 30th, the Justice Department said they were all done in accordance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act law Congress passed.
When we asked specifically about these documents, the Justice Department would not comment on them directly and said anything that might have been withheld was because of privilege or they were duplicates or they were part of an ongoing federal investigation.
After more people reported on the documents and there was more of a public backlash, the story changed again.
The Justice Department said they were reviewing to see if anything was accidentally mistakenly tagged as duplicate, and if they found something, of course they would publish it.
So fast forward to Thursday night, where there were a thousand new pages uploaded, including some documents that it discovered were, quote, incorrectly coded as duplicative, and a few more documents related to prosecution memos that the Southern District of Florida determined could be published while