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An FBI tip alleging that President Donald Trump “raped” a Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking victim was included in the latest release of the so-called Epstein files.
The release also contained a letter purportedly written by Epstein to notorious sex offender Dr. Larry Nassar shortly before Epstein died by suicide in which Epstein told Nassar that Trump “shares our love of young, nubile girls.
“When a young beauty walked by he loved to ‘grab snatch,’ whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system,” Epstein purportedly wrote. “Life is unfair.”
Meanwhile, the Justice Department on Tuesday said the references to Trump in the files amounted to “untrue and sensationalist claims.”
“The Department of Justice has officially released nearly 30,000 more pages of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein. Some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 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,” the agency said in a statement.
“Nevertheless, out of our commitment to the law and transparency, the DOJ is releasing these documents with the legally required protections for Epstein’s victims.”
The documents included a summary of a call to the FBI tip line about the Epstein case, made a week before the 2020 election.
A former limo driver, whose name was redacted in the release, claimed he drove Trump to the Dallas airport in 1995 and overheard a cell phone conversation Trump was having at the time.
The driver, according to the tip, “noted Trump continuously stated the name ‘Jeffrey’ while on the phone, and made references to ‘abusing some girl.’”
The driver didn’t know who Trump was talking to or who Trump was referencing, according to the document.
The driver told the tip line he was relaying the story to someone around Christmas Eve 1999, when that person, whose name was also redacted, said Trump “raped me.”
When the driver asked for clarification, the alleged victim said, “Donald J. Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.”
She said “some girl with a funny name ‘took me into a fancy hotel or building, that’s how it happened,’” the former limo driver said.
The latest Epstein files release came as the Justice Department faced scrutiny for initially providing highly redacted documents.
Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Ro Khanna, D-Calif., who sponsored the legislation signed by Trump to release the files, had threatened to bring contempt proceedings against Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Howard Koplowitz is AL.com's Breaking & Trending Reporter for afternoons and nights. He has been with AL.com since 2015 and has served in a variety of roles, ranging from coverage of Donald Trump's first...