Democrats on the House Oversight Committee led by U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) announced Tuesday on social media: “For the last few weeks, Oversight Democrats have been investigating the FBI’s handling of allegations from 2019 of sexual assault on a minor made against President Donald Trump by a survivor.
“Oversight Democrats can confirm that the DOJ appears to have illegally withheld FBI interviews with this survivor. Covering up direct evidence of a potential assault by the President of the United States is the most serious possible crime in this White House cover up.”
Note: After the Department of Justice released more than three million Epstein documents/files/pages under the 2025 Epstein Files Transparency Act, claiming full compliance after more than six million documents/files/pages were reviewed, NPR published a report alleging that more than 50 pages from 2019 FBI interviews with a woman who accused Trump of a 1980s minor assault were missing from the released files.
Records of FBI interviews with a survivor who alleged Trump sexually assaulted her as a child aren’t duplicates or shouldn’t be privileged. Are you saying there’s an active, ongoing federal investigation into President Trump? https://t.co/vFMQKCJVbT
— Oversight Dems (@OversightDems) February 24, 2026
The Department of Justice replied to the “cover up” accusation: “@TheJusticeDept has repeatedly said publicly AND directly to @NPR prior to deadline – NOTHING has been deleted. If files are temporarily pulled for victim redactions or to redact Personally Identifiable Information, then those documents are promptly restored online and are publicly available. ALL responsive documents have been produced unless a document falls within one of the following categories: duplicates, privileged, or part of an ongoing federal investigation.”
The Oversight Dems replied to the DOJ: “Records of FBI interviews with a survivor who alleged Trump sexually assaulted her as a child aren’t duplicates or shouldn’t be privileged. Are you saying there’s an active, ongoing federal investigation into President Trump?”
Note: The New York Times reported that when Rep. Garcia “reviewed unredacted versions of the Epstein files at the Justice Dept on Monday, interview summaries related to the woman’s claim were also missing from that trove,” and that Garcia said the Justice Department had not provided a proper explanation for why the materials were missing.
Oversight Democrats have been investigating the handling of serious allegations by a survivor against Donald Trump when she was a minor. We have now confirmed that some of the documents related to this survivor appear to be missing from the files.
Here’s what we know
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— Congressman Robert Garcia (@RepRobertGarcia) February 24, 2026