Justice Department officials said Tuesday the latest publicized Epstein files contain “false” accusations against President Trump.
The department released 30,000 additional documents related to its investigation and prosecution of sex offender and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
The material includes claims that Mr. Trump was involved in the scheme and raped a young woman who was allegedly later found murdered.
Democrats have seized on the unverified accusation as evidence of Mr. Trump’s involvement and a motivation for the department’s resistance to making all of the files public.
But Justice Department officials said the claims against the president were politically motivated and were lodged against him just before the 2020 presidential election.
“To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already,” Justice Department officials said.
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The files include a claim by an unnamed limo driver who said an unnamed female told him, “Donald J. Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.”
The female allegedly told the driver she could not call the police because “they will kill me,” but ultimately reported the incident to law enforcement. The limo driver claimed he later found out the woman had been discovered with her head “blown off” in Kiefer, Oklahoma.
It’s not the first time Mr. Trump faced unverified claims of rape.
In 2016, an unnamed woman abruptly dropped a lawsuit claiming Mr. Trump and Epstein tied her to a bed and raped her in Epstein’s Manhattan home. Her lawyer did not explain dropping the lawsuit, but Mr. Trump and Epstein denied the claim.
Tuesday’s document dump also included a handwritten note Epstein wrote shortly before he committed suicide in a New York City jail cell while he awaited prosecution on sex trafficking charges. He wrote to fellow convicted sex offender Larry Nassar that “life is unfair” and that Mr. Trump, whom he described as “our president,” “also shares our love of young, nubile girls.”
The letter echoed other correspondence from Epstein in which he tried to find ways to link Mr. Trump to his offenses. The two men once palled around but became enemies by 2007, when Mr. Trump kicked Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club because the financier was recruiting his young female employees.
Earlier emails released by the Justice Department showed Epstein’s fixation with Mr. Trump as he rose to political superstardom and the presidency.
Democrats seized on the salacious claims about the president in the latest Justice Department file dump and demanded more information. “Disgusting and abhorrent — and just the tip of the iceberg,” Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, said in response to Epstein’s letter to Nassar. “Everything must be brought to light.”
Democrats jumped on the revelations despite taking no steps to release the Justice Department’s Epstein files while President Biden was in office.
The files released so far include new photos of former President Bill Clinton relaxing in a hot tub with a partially obscured female and swimming in a pool with Epstein associate and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. Mr. Clinton denies wrongdoing and said he cut off ties with Epstein many years ago.
Epstein, a billionaire investor, had ties to many prominent people and donated mostly to Democratic candidates.
• Susan Ferrechio can be reached at sferrechio@washingtontimes.com.
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