UNCONFIRMED: the allegation against Trump is recorded in FBI interview notes released with the Epstein files and has not been independently corroborated.
In February 2026, journalist Roger Sollenberger discovered that the FBI conducted four separate interviews in 2019 with a woman who accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was a minor. According to a 21-page document in the Epstein files, the alleged assault occurred between 1983 and 1985. The woman stated that Jeffrey Epstein introduced her to Trump in 1984, and that Trump forced her to perform oral sex when she was in her early teens. When she bit down, Trump allegedly punched her in the head and threw her out.
The FBI interviews took place between July 24 and October 16, 2019 — four interviews over nearly three months, suggesting the FBI considered the allegations credible enough for extensive follow-up. The first interview was documented on August 9, 2019 — sixteen days after it was conducted. FBI agents typically have a five-day filing deadline, making this delay unusual and raising questions about whether the documentation was deliberately delayed or suppressed.
Critically, the interview records “appear to have been removed from public viewing” despite the Epstein Files Transparency Act requiring all related documents be made public. Sollenberger found the records in a separate government database. The documents had been provided to Ghislaine Maxwell's legal team during her trial — meaning they existed and were known to the DOJ.
Attorney General Pam Bondi stated there was “no evidence” Trump committed any crime — a claim that directly contradicts the existence of these documented allegations and FBI interviews. When the FBI interviews a person four times about allegations against the current president, and those records are then removed from public view while the AG claims “no evidence” exists, the question is not whether there is evidence. The question is why it's being hidden.
Update (September 18, 2026): the court record now corroborates what this entry previously rested on a single news report to establish. A filing in Phang v. Blanche states that a Justice Department list of “Non-Testifying Witness Material,” produced to Ghislaine Maxwell's defense team, catalogues a witness numbered 3501.045 and shows that “in 2019, the FBI interviewed the 3501.045 witness four times, on July 24, August 7, August 20, and October 16.” The filing says the resulting reports “include allegations that Trump sexually and then physically assaulted the witness when she was a minor,” and that the underlying handwritten notes still exist because the same list shows they were produced to Maxwell's defense in April 2021.
On September 16, 2026, Judge Emmet Sullivan ordered those handwritten notes submitted to the court for private review by September 24. The department appealed the next day (see Lawyer Katie Phang Sues Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche for Withholding 2.5 Million Pages of Epstein Files Required to Be Released by an Act of Congress).
These remain allegations. Trump has not been charged, and the court fight concerns whether the records are disclosed, not whether the allegations are true.