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Uncle Joe

(64,713 posts)
Sun Feb 22, 2026, 09:48 AM 20 hrs ago

Woman Who 'Credibly Accused' Trump of Sex With a Minor Reportedly Had Her Records Removed From Epstein Files

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TNR reporter Edith Olmsted wrote that “A 21-page slideshow buried in the massive trove of Epstein-related documents included allegations that sometime between 1983 and 1985, Trump forced a woman to give him oral sex when she was in her early teens,” Olmsted wrote. “When the woman bit down on Trump’s exposed penis, he allegedly punched her in the head and kicked her out. That same woman told the DOJ that Epstein had introduced her to Trump in 1984.”

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Justice Department records indicate that the FBI spoke to this woman not once but at least four separate times, according to independent journalists Roger Sollenberger and Nina Burleigh. Now those records appear to have been removed from public viewing — despite the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which requires all documents relating to the alleged sex trafficker to be made public.

The report went on to say that Sollenberger found the interview records “in a separate database of documents downloaded from the government’s public files on Epstein.”

The FBI recorded the first interview on August 9, 2019 — “the day before Epstein was found dead in his jail cell,” Olmsted wrote.

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/woman-credibly-accused-trump-sex-220809049.html

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Woman Who 'Credibly Accused' Trump of Sex With a Minor Reportedly Had Her Records Removed From Epstein Files (Original Post) Uncle Joe 20 hrs ago OP
Kick dalton99a 20 hrs ago #1
a girl, not a woman. mopinko 19 hrs ago #2
A child. My heart hurts for her. Scrivener7 19 hrs ago #4
Arrrgh! Pedo-washing language strikes again! GopherGal 19 hrs ago #3
Fixing it gets tricky. Igel 15 hrs ago #17
Obstruction, on the surface /nt bucolic_frolic 19 hrs ago #5
T(he)S(ick)F(uck) raping children. Somebody imprison him, now! Clouds Passing 19 hrs ago #6
And ya' know - There's more that is even worse in there. Grins 18 hrs ago #7
Yep. They will say "gawd works in mysterious ways" and that will be it. Justice matters. 17 hrs ago #14
It was pretty damn convenient for there to be no camera monitoring Epstein in that cell. cstanleytech 18 hrs ago #8
Looks like we have a smoking gun. Martin68 18 hrs ago #9
It gets even shadier--From Sollenberger's substack: kurtyboy 18 hrs ago #10
So does the record exist or not? tavernier 18 hrs ago #11
kick. AllaN01Bear 18 hrs ago #12
The Reporter Is Pathetic. There Was No "Woman" With Trump, No "Woman".... ColoringFool 18 hrs ago #13
I am guessing... 2naSalit 17 hrs ago #15
Wait, were some of the stolen classified files at Maralago part of the Epstein files? Rhiagel 17 hrs ago #16

GopherGal

(2,861 posts)
3. Arrrgh! Pedo-washing language strikes again!
Sun Feb 22, 2026, 10:24 AM
19 hrs ago

Trump forced a woman to give him oral sex when she was in her early teens,”


A "woman" "in her early teens" translates as "a girl under fifteen" in non-pedo-apologist speak.

Igel

(37,472 posts)
17. Fixing it gets tricky.
Sun Feb 22, 2026, 02:47 PM
15 hrs ago

Original:

“A 21-page slideshow buried in the massive trove of Epstein-related documents included allegations that sometime between 1983 and 1985, Trump forced a woman to give him oral sex when she was in her early teens,” Olmsted wrote. “When the woman bit down on Trump’s exposed penis, he allegedly punched her in the head and kicked her out. That same woman told the DOJ that Epstein had introduced her to Trump in 1984.


Let's put in "girl":
“A 21-page slideshow buried in the massive trove of Epstein-related documents included allegations that sometime between 1983 and 1985, Trump forced a girl to give him oral sex when she was in her early teens,” Olmsted wrote. “When the girl bit down on Trump’s exposed penis, he allegedly punched her in the head and kicked her out. That same girl told the DOJ that Epstein had introduced her to Trump in 1984.


That works even less well because then it's just factually incorrect and harder to repair, given that we usually frame tense with respect to the present. "That same girl, aged 34 years later in 2019, told the DOJ that Epstein..." could be done but that has another problem.

Built into the context is that this is an allegation made in 2019, recalling the past--that this wasn't an allegation made by a girl but by that girl + 34 or so years. Had it been an allegation made by somebody other than the alleger it would have been a lot easier in terms of getting the semantics right. As it is, the "in her early teens" communicates all the denotational info even if the connotational value isn't quite right without making for two problems. (Temporal semantics beyond really simple stuff ... I ran from that at full speed.)

As for the actual 21-slide presentation, we'd want page 18. "NTOC" = National Threat Operations Center, with "tip" or "report" clipped.

Grins

(9,364 posts)
7. And ya' know - There's more that is even worse in there.
Sun Feb 22, 2026, 11:29 AM
18 hrs ago

Violence and rape of girls even younger than 14.

I think that is what he is really afraid of becoming public.

And worse - If it does become public, I don’t think it will matter one bit to the MAGA faithful. And that includes the Evangelicals.

kurtyboy

(992 posts)
10. It gets even shadier--From Sollenberger's substack:
Sun Feb 22, 2026, 11:49 AM
18 hrs ago
On Feb. 27, Bondi made a big, public to-do on Fox News, claiming she and Patel had just been “surprised” to learn the FBI had “thousands of pages” of evidence in the Epstein case that they hadn’t turned over to her despite the bureau’s assurances they had provided all the available documents. She sent a letter to Patel at the time, ordering him to get to the bottom of it, and to deliver a report about his findings in two weeks. We don’t know what happened to that report.

The very next day, however, the DOJ returned to Trump troves of sensitive government documents he took with him to Mar-a-Lago upon leaving office in 2021. The White House at the time would not confirm whether Trump took all the documents back, or whether he allowed the government to retain some of them.

A master Epstein evidence manifest shows the government “acquired” at least four pieces of Epstein evidence in late February and March of last year. The first is dated as “acquired” on Feb. 27, the day Bondi went public about the additional files and ordered Patel to investigate. The other three are dated March 10, as the DOJ was carrying out its five-alarm, all-hands Epstein files review — and, reportedly, scrambling to find and flag all the references to Trump.


[emphasis added]

tavernier

(14,413 posts)
11. So does the record exist or not?
Sun Feb 22, 2026, 11:55 AM
18 hrs ago

And if so, is it attainable or not?

Why are all these types of reports always so murky as far as existence and location?

ColoringFool

(505 posts)
13. The Reporter Is Pathetic. There Was No "Woman" With Trump, No "Woman"....
Sun Feb 22, 2026, 12:09 PM
18 hrs ago

Biting him.

Errors in both syntax and reality.

2naSalit

(101,499 posts)
15. I am guessing...
Sun Feb 22, 2026, 12:31 PM
17 hrs ago

What we can probably find in the casket in Ivana's grave, all the evidence that's missing. Don't forget who worked as the head of the national archives during 1.0.

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