Department of Justice did not release FBI memos when it uploaded millions of pages of files beginning in December
Three memos that describe four interviews conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2019 contain explicit but unsubstantiated claims that Donald Trump sexually abused a woman when she was a minor in the early 1980s with the assistance of Jeffrey Epstein, according to a Guardian review of those documents.
The Department of Justice did not release those records when it uploaded millions of pages of files related to Epstein beginning in December. The existence of the missing documents was first reported by independent journalist Roger Sollenberger and subsequently confirmed by NPR, causing outrage in Washington and sparking an investigation from congressional Democrats.
The Guardian obtained the missing FBI form 302 reports, which memorialize 25 pages of agents’ notes from the four interviews conducted in the summer and fall of 2019. The notes describe how the woman came forward to tell agents she recognized Epstein from a photo sent by a childhood friend. Only the first session, in which she did not name Trump, made it into the public release. The Guardian has chosen not to publish the woman’s name.
Abused a woman who was a minor?
He raped a child.
Let’s all stop fucking using the guardian and anyone who is willing to water this shit down. This shit is egregious.
“Claims that he not not not not made a oopsie doopsie with a pre adult.” Fuck that shit. We have got to stop giving these people money and attention for fucking us over.
I agree with you but…
I also want good journalism and that requires restraint and carefully chosen wording. I’m not claiming that the guardian is that, but I am saying that calling is child rape without knowing exactly what happened is also not helpful
That’s where the word “claims” comes in to do all of the heavy lifting.
The claim isn’t raped a future woman. It was a child. It’s an obviously deceptive way to report on it.
Her allegations have not been verified, and the FBI never brought charges related to her claims, which at times appear outlandish. Her statements also contradict what is known about Epstein’s life in the early 1980s.
Oh Guardian. When will journalism ever learn that this faux fairness and false equivalence is exactly what brought us here.
The fact that the files were omitted is what’s important, not that some things may not be factually correct. If you’ve been violated and you’re talking to scary burocratic men who show little empathy and are known to protect the powerful, you might not be insanely factually correct either.
The smoking guns are that they didn’t investigate, and they were excluded or removed from the files. Maybe write an article about that.
Dead children can’t speak for themselves.
and live victim’s testaments don’t erase themselves
And Epstein didn’t kill himself.
Gestures at the trail of bodies What evidence? 🤷♂️
just a reminder The Guardian is owned by The Scott Trust Ltd.
Who sits on The Scott Trust?
The 12 current Scott Trust members are:
- Chair Ole Jacob Sunde (former chair of Schibsted Media Group).
- Katharine Viner (editor in chief of The Guardian)
- Tracy Corrigan (formerly chief strategy officer of Dow Jones)
- David Olusoga (historian, writer, broadcaster and filmmaker)
- Dr Jonathan Paine (former managing director of investment bank Rothschild)
- Stuart Proffitt (publishing director at Penguin Books)
- Matthew Ryder (barrister and founder member of Matrix Chambers)
- Vivian Schiller (former head of news at Twitter)
- Russell Scott (chief commercial officer of video platform Mavis and the Scott family representative)
- Haroon Siddique (Guardian legal affairs correspondent and journalist representative)
- Margaret Simons (journalist, author and journalism academic)
- Nabiha Syed (chief executive of The Markup, a journalism non-profit)
- Stephen Godsell is company secretary of The Scott Trust Ltd and not a director (he was previously described as a director on the Scott Trust website but this appears to have been a mistake).
But who owns The Scott Trust Ltd?
The Scott Trust is itself owned by the following shareholders who all hold equal shares.
- David Olusoga
- Russell Scott
- Haroon Siddique
- Ole Jacob Sunde
- Kath Viner
I wonder if any of these people show up in the Epstein files…
