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Swede

(38,935 posts)
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 01:05 PM 6 hrs ago

Redacted victim's statement July 24, 2019, and entered into the FBI's case files on Aug 9. Epstein died the next day.

What an incredible coincidence.

The assault allegation initially came via a lead called into an FBI hotline, according to internal records about the hotline tips. The Trump accusation sits at the top of that list, which also contains salacious, unverified, and often bizarre accusations against Trump. The notes show the FBI followed up on the tip, learning the victim’s identity from the caller and preparing to dispatch agents to the “Washington Office” for an interview.

But the slideshow presentation and the internal emails last summer don’t cite the hotline as the source for the tip, as they do for a tip about Bill Barr. Instead, both cite the victim herself as the source of the claim, showing the FBI spoke directly with the Trump accuser. (Elsewhere on the slide, a claim about former President Bill Clinton is attributed to someone specified as “not a victim.”)

While it’s not clear what became of the investigation into the Trump claim, details from the tip match other records in the files, including an FBI writeup (known as a “302” form) of an interview with an Esptein victim and her lawyer. The interview was conducted July 24, 2019, and entered into the FBI’s case files on August 9, the day before Epstein was found dead in his jail cell.


https://sollenbergerrc.substack.com/p/fbi-interviewed-trump-accuser-epstein?r=buqu&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01245620.pdf

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