Democrats on Wednesday accused the Trump administration of carrying out ‘the largest government cover-up in modern history’
Democrats accused Donald Trump’s government this Wednesday (25) of carrying out “the biggest government cover-up in modern history”after American outlets reported that the government omitted documents from the Jeffrey Epstein case files that mention the president.
The Justice Department has published millions of pages of files related to the financier Jeffrey Epstein, due to a transparency law enacted last year. But public broadcaster NPR found gaps in the files related to a 2019 sexual assault allegation made by a woman against Trump.
O president denied having committed any irregularity and claimed that the Justice Department’s publication of the so-called “Epstein Files” exonerated him.
The indices and serial numbers attached to the investigation material on the Epstein i trafficking networkindicate that FBI agents conducted four interviews with the complainant and wrote summaries and accompanying notes, NPR reported.
The public database shows only a summary focused mainly on the woman’s allegations against Epstein. The other three summaries and related notes are not available on the Justice Department’s website, according to NPR’s review of the document numbering system. The New York Times and MS NOW reported similar findings.
“It is the largest government cover-up operation in modern history,” Democratic deputies on the House of Representatives Oversight Committee reported on social media. “We demand answers,” they added.
According to the investigation, the complainant contacted authorities for the first time in July 2019, shortly after the Epstein’s arrest on federal sex trafficking charges. Later internal references in the published files indicate that the woman claimed to have met Trump through the financier, and that the former attacked her in the mid-1980s, when the complainant was between 13 and 15 years old.
A 2025 FBI document, which appears in the public database, reports this complaint, but does not include an assessment of its credibility. Detailed memos from follow-up interviews, conducted in August and October 2019, according to the indices, were not included.
Oversight Committee Democrat Robert García said House Democrats “can confirm that the Department of Justice appears to have illegally withheld FBI interviews with this survivor.”
García added that Democrats they will open a parallel investigation and demand that the missing files be turned over to Congress.
In a statement released Wednesday night, the Justice Department said it was reviewing its files on the Epstein case to determine whether anyone was treated “inappropriately” but denied wrongdoing.
“If it is determined that any document was improperly labeled during the review process and falls within the scope of the Act, the Department will certainly make it public in accordance with the law,” the Department added.
*AFP
