A new batch of Jeffrey Epstein files was released on Tuesday by the US Justice Department (DOJ), containing numerous references to President Donald Trump. In one such file, a complaint received by the FBI exposes chilling allegations about the current US president.
The latest files include extensive, previously unseen material from investigations into the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex trafficker who died by suicide in a jail in 2019.
Epstein Files: What does the complaint say?
According to the file released by the DOJ, the complainant reached out to the FBI on 8 March 2020, alleging that she was a victim of sex trafficking and had been trafficked by her uncle and Jeffrey Epstein in 1984.
At the time, the victim was 13 years old and was pregnant. She alleged that her newborn daughter was murdered and disposed of “because I gave birth to her while in the middle of this sex trafficking ordeal.”
The victim, whose name has been redacted in the documents to protect her identity, said she had reached out to the FBI to obtain details of an NYPD detective who she claimed had called her a few days before the murder happened between May and September 1984.
She went on to provide chilling details of the incident regarding the disposal of the newborn child. She said the girl's body was dumped into Lake Michigan from a yacht, naming President Donald Trump as a witness to the incident and claiming he was present during the incident.
“A detective from NYPD FBI sex trafficking task force called me a couple of weeks ago from a 212 area code number,” the victim says.
“I talked to him for about 20 or 30 minutes about my being sex trafficked by my uncle and Jeffrey Epstein in 1984 while I was 13 and pregnant,” she says, alleging that she gave information to the said detective about some other “high-profile individuals” involved in her sex trafficking.
Providing details about the murder, she said that the infanticide happened “mostly from a yacht in Lake Michigan originating from Mona Lake, MI,” again listing Trump as a witness.
DOJ's take on Trump
Releasing the new Epstein files, the DOJ issued a statement defending Trump and said some of the documents “contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump”.
The 79-year-old Republican, who has not been accused of any crime related to Jeffrey Epstein, had fought for months to prevent the release of the documents.
