UNCONFIRMED: this entry reports allegations made in a Democratic staff report. They are the report's claims, not findings by a court or prosecutor; TIME said it could not independently verify the newest account, and the White House says none of the allegations is true.
On October 26, 2026, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee, led by ranking member Jamie Raskin, released a staff report asserting that “a growing body of evidence demonstrates that Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s.” Drawing on staff interviews, survivor accounts, FBI records and files released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, it calls for an independent special counsel and concludes, “There is more than sufficient evidence to launch a criminal investigation.”
The report describes 11 women. Five, it says, “have directly accused Trump of raping or sexually assaulting them in Epstein's company or direct physical presence”: Beatrice Keul, Stacey Williams, Jill Harth, Katie Johnson and a Jane Doe. Three others describe encounters in which Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell appeared to offer women to Trump, and three more “have not come forward as survivors,” according to the report. TIME reported that the four direct accusations other than Keul's had already been made public in interviews or in FBI records released with the Epstein files.
The new material is Keul's account. A former Miss Switzerland, she told committee staff that Trump raped her in a Plaza Hotel suite in November 1993, when she was 24, during the American Dream Pageant, which TIME said had a partnership with Trump. She had previously spoken publicly about her allegation of sexual assault. TIME said it “has been unable to independently verify details of Keul's account.”
UNCONFIRMED: The report's account of rape rests on Keul's interviews with committee staff. Its Keul section “relies solely on extensive discussions between Committee Staff and Keul over a period of several weeks,” the report says, and it includes no transcripts, HuffPost noted. Her earlier public account was different. In an October 30, 2024 interview with the Daily Mail, she said that when she entered a Plaza Hotel suite, “he jumped on me,” that he groped her, and that after she said “let's talk first,” “he slowed down”; the Trump campaign called her accusations false. The report's footnote acknowledges that she had previously said she talked him down. “The document doesn't say why Keul changed her story,” HuffPost wrote, and TIME could not verify her account.
The report also accuses the Justice Department of shielding Trump. It says then-Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, interviewing Maxwell in July 2025, cut her off when she raised a survivor whose account implicated Trump. The department's own transcript of the July 25 session shows Maxwell beginning to discuss the “allegations of Jane, who I dispute,” and Blanche saying, “Let's not talk about individuals.” The report says Blanche “may have engaged in criminal obstruction of justice while acting on a mission to protect Trump”; that characterization is the report's.
White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis said, “None of these allegations are true,” and called the report “nothing more than a desperate attempt by crazed Democrats to distract Americans from the surging Republican momentum driven by President Trump's historic achievements.” Communications director Steven Cheung wrote on X, “The American people see right through this garbage.” The Justice Department called it “nothing more than a last-ditch effort by House Judiciary Democrats to mislead the public,” said it had released nearly 3 million documents under the law, and noted that Trump's was the only administration to bring federal charges against Epstein. Related: Trump's DOJ Withheld 50+ Pages of Epstein Files About a Woman Who Accused Trump of Sexual Assault at Age 13, FBI Interviewed a Woman Four Times in 2019 About Her Allegation That Trump Sexually Assaulted Her as a Minor.
Update (October 28, 2026): The report gives more detail on the Blanche interview. It says an FBI slide deck of “Prominent Names” in the Epstein investigation, which referred to Jane's account of Trump and Epstein, was created by DOJ and FBI personnel in the weeks before the interview, yet Blanche “did not ask any questions at all about Jane's allegations.” In the department's transcript, Blanche asks whether Maxwell recalls an underage woman giving Epstein a massage, after mentioning a trial witness he said was 14 when she was introduced to Epstein. Maxwell answers that she believes he is talking about Jane, and Blanche answers yes. As she begins to dispute that testimony, he says, as the report renders it, “yeah, yeah, I don't want to get into ... he said, she said.” The report concludes, “The whole point of the conversation was not to uncover information but to create a conspiracy of silence”; that is its characterization. The exchange in the transcript does not mention Trump; the link between this Jane and the account involving Trump is drawn by the report.