The Epstein Files Are Missing 50 Pages About Trump and a 13 Year Old Girl and the People You Pay to Investigate Are the Ones Telling You to Look Away

Let me tell you something I know as a trial lawyer with four decades in the courtroom. When documents disappear from a case file, that tells you more than the documents themselves ever could. And right now, it’s being reported that more than 50 pages of FBI interview records about a woman who says both Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump sexually assaulted her when she was 13 to 15 years old are nowhere to be found in the public Epstein files.

The Department of Justice says they are “reviewing” the situation. The White House says the president has been “totally exonerated.” And if you believe either of those things, I have some oceanfront property in Arizona I would love to sell you.

Here is what you need to understand. This story would not have come out as early as it did if it were not for a single independent journalist named Roger Sollenberger, working from his Substack newsletter, cross referencing serial numbers stamped on the documents the DOJ did release. He found the gaps. He found the missing pages. He did the work that the entire weight of the federal government either could not or would not do.

NPR picked it up. Then the New York Times. Then CNN, NBC, the Associated Press, and a growing list of outlets that have now confirmed the same thing: the DOJ released only one out of four FBI interview summaries related to this accuser, and the three that are missing are the ones where she reportedly described what Trump did to her.

That single detail should stop every American in their tracks.

A Woman Came Forward and the FBI Took Her Seriously

In July 2019, days after federal agents arrested Epstein on sex trafficking charges, this woman contacted the FBI. She told agents that as a teenager in South Carolina, she was lured to a house on Hilton Head Island under the pretense of babysitting. There were no children. There was only a man she came to know as Jeff, who she says plied her with alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine, and then raped her repeatedly over multiple occasions. She was approximately 13 years old.

The FBI sat down with her on July 24, 2019. That interview summary was released to the public. In it, she describes Epstein’s abuse in detail. She does not mention Trump in that interview. Her attorney told the agents she was afraid of naming other individuals, and specifically anyone well known, because of a fear of retaliation.

The FBI found her account credible enough to bring her back three more times, on August 7, August 20, and October 16 of 2019. That is four separate interviews. The existence of those interviews is confirmed by an evidence index compiled for the criminal trial of Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell. The index lists 15 documents related to this woman. Only seven have been made public. The other eight, including the three remaining interview summaries and their corresponding notes, are gone from the DOJ database.

A separate FBI summary from 2025, which was released, describes this woman’s full account. According to that document, she claimed Epstein introduced her to Trump, and that Trump forced her to perform oral sex. When she bit him, she says, Trump punched her in the head and kicked her out. She would have been between 13 and 15 years old at the time.

Nobody has proven those allegations to be true. Nobody has proven them to be false. And that is the entire point.

The People Who Are Supposed to Investigate Are the Ones Telling You There Is Nothing to See

Attorney General Pam Bondi testified under oath before the House Judiciary Committee on February 11, 2026, and said the following: “There is no evidence that Donald Trump has committed a crime.” Representatives Ted Lieu and Dan Goldman have now formally requested the appointment of a special counsel to investigate whether that statement constitutes perjury. Their letter cites multiple documents in the released Epstein files that directly contradict what Bondi told Congress.

FBI Director Kash Patel testified in September 2025 that there was “no credible information” suggesting Epstein trafficked young women to anyone other than himself. When asked if Trump was implicated, Patel said “absolutely not.” When asked how many times Trump’s name appears in the files, Patel dodged the question. He said the number was not 1,000. It was not 500. It was not even 100. It has now been confirmed that Trump’s name appears in the Epstein files well over 1,000 times.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who served as Trump’s personal criminal defense attorney during the New York hush money trial that resulted in 34 felony convictions, co signed a letter to Congress on February 14 insisting no records were withheld on the basis of “embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity.”

Read that again. The man who defended Trump in a criminal courtroom is now the second highest ranking official at the DOJ and is telling the American people that none of the missing documents were held back to protect Trump.

Do you see what is happening here? The Attorney General, the FBI Director, and the Deputy Attorney General have all made public statements that the emerging evidence directly challenges. Bipartisan members of Congress, including Republican Thomas Massie, have reviewed the unredacted files and come away saying there are at least six names of people who are “likely incriminated” that have been redacted from public view.

Meanwhile, countries across Europe are taking the Epstein files more seriously than Trump’s own government. British police arrested the former Prince Andrew on February 19 on suspicion of misconduct in public office. Norway charged its former prime minister. France opened two new investigations. Latvia opened a human trafficking investigation. These countries looked at the same files the Trump DOJ claims contain nothing worth pursuing and started making arrests.

This Is Not About What Did or Did Not Happen in the 1980s

Let me be clear about what I am arguing. I am not here to tell you that the allegations against Trump have been proven. They have not. They are unverified. The FBI has not publicly assessed their credibility.

And that is the scandal I’m specifically writing about in this post.

When a woman walks into an FBI office with her attorney, describes violent sexual assault at the hands of one of the most powerful men on the planet, sits for four separate interviews over the span of three months, and her account is catalogued, indexed, and preserved as part of a federal criminal investigation, you do not get to shrug your shoulders and call it “unfounded and false.” You investigate. You follow the evidence wherever it leads. You let trained professionals determine whether the account holds up.

What you do not do is disappear the records. What you do not do is release the one interview that does not mention Trump and bury the three that apparently do. What you do not do is put the man’s former criminal defense lawyer in charge of the agency responsible for deciding what the public gets to see.

If I were this woman’s father, I would want a full and complete investigation. I would want every interview reviewed. I would want every allegation assessed on its merits. I would want accountability if wrongdoing is found. And I would be absolutely enraged that the people who are paid to protect my daughter are instead protecting the man she says hurt her.

The Law Is Clear and the DOJ Appears to Be Breaking It

Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act into law in late 2025 after bipartisan pressure from Congress made it politically impossible to avoid doing. The law required the DOJ to release all investigative material related to Epstein. It authorized specific, limited exceptions. The DOJ can redact material that identifies victims. It can withhold material related to ongoing investigations. It can exclude duplicates and privileged documents.

What the law explicitly prohibits is withholding or redacting materials “on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary.”

That language is there for a reason. Congress anticipated exactly what is happening right now.

Representative Robert Garcia, the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, went to the DOJ on Monday, February 24, and personally reviewed the unredacted evidence logs. The missing interview summaries were not there either. They were not in the public database. They were not in the unredacted files available to Congress. They were not provided in response to the Oversight Committee’s subpoena. They are simply gone.

Garcia said publicly that “the DOJ appears to have illegally withheld FBI interviews with this survivor who accused President Trump of heinous crimes.”

The DOJ’s initial response was to accuse Democrats of “manufacturing outrage.” Their follow up, issued on February 26, was to say they are “reviewing” whether documents were “improperly tagged in the review process.” Improperly tagged. As if 50 plus pages of FBI interview records about allegations against the sitting President of the United States got lost in the filing system.

This is the same DOJ that managed to expose nude photographs of young women, names, email addresses, and other identifying information of Epstein’s victims in what lawyers for nearly 100 survivors described as a release that turned their lives “upside down.” The DOJ had no trouble putting victims’ most intimate details on the internet for the world to see. They had no trouble releasing unverified claims about other public figures. The only records that seem to have been carefully and selectively removed are the ones about the president.

The Real Coverup

The coverup is not about what happened in a house on Hilton Head Island in 1984. Maybe those allegations are true. Maybe they are not. An investigation would help us know.

The coverup is about what is happening in 2026, in plain sight, by people you are paying to work for you. Your tax dollars fund the Department of Justice. Your tax dollars fund the FBI. Your tax dollars pay the salary of every official who has stood before a camera or sat in a congressional hearing and told you there is nothing in these files worth investigating. And the evidence mounts, week by week, that they have been misleading you.

Consider what Kash Patel said before he became FBI Director. In a 2023 interview, he told a right wing podcaster that the only reason the Epstein files had not been released was “because of who’s on that list.” He said, “put on your big boy pants and let us know who the pedophiles are.” He promised transparency. He promised accountability. He campaigned on it.

Now he sits in the Director’s chair and refuses to answer whether Trump’s name appears in the files he is withholding. He tells Congress there is “no credible information” to investigate, while police in the United Kingdom are arresting royalty and prosecutors in France and Norway are filing charges.

Bondi. Patel. Blanche. All three have told you there is nothing to see. All three work for or alongside a man who has been convicted of 34 felonies. All three serve at the pleasure of a president who fought to stop Congress from passing the Epstein transparency law in the first place and only signed it when he had no political choice.

This is not about Democrats or Republicans. Republican Representative Thomas Massie has publicly questioned whether Kash Patel gave false testimony. This is about whether the people in charge of law enforcement in the United States of America are using their positions to shield the president from scrutiny that a law, signed by Trump himself, was designed to provide.

What This Means for You, for Your Kids, and for This Country

I write this as a lawyer, husband, and father who is deeply worried about where we are heading. I am worried about the precedent this sets for every victim of abuse who is thinking about coming forward. If the Department of Justice will disappear records to protect the most powerful person in the country, what chance does an ordinary citizen have?

I am worried about our democracy. When the chief law enforcement officer of the United States lies under oath and the Deputy AG who once served as the president’s personal defense attorney controls the flow of evidence, we are not living in a country governed by the rule of law. We are living in a country governed by the rule of one man.

I am worried about our kids and grandkids. Because the message this sends is clear: if you are powerful enough, no one will hold you accountable. If you are rich enough, the records will disappear. If you control the machinery of government, you can rewrite the story.

And I am tired of watching it happen. I am tired of the gaslighting. I am tired of “manufacturing outrage” being the official response when journalists and members of Congress catch the government hiding evidence. I am tired of “totally exonerated” being repeated like a magic spell that can make 50 pages of FBI documents vanish.

This administration is not working for you. It is working to protect itself. And the damage it is doing to our institutions, our credibility on the world stage, our constitutional principles, and the fundamental trust between citizens and their government is going to take years, if not decades, to repair.

What You Can Do Right Now

You can share this story. You can talk about it at your dinner table, in your group chats, at your workplace. You can call your representatives and demand a full, independent investigation into the missing Epstein files and the conduct of Bondi, Patel, and Blanche. You can follow the work of the independent journalists who are doing the job the government refuses to do. You can support the survivors who have had their lives upended by a botched, politicized release that somehow managed to expose their most private information while burying the records that implicate the president.

You can refuse to accept “improperly tagged” as an explanation for a coverup.

You can refuse to look away.

Because the people who did this to us are counting on you to get tired, to get overwhelmed, to move on to the next outrage. They are counting on your silence.

Do not give it to them.

This is your government. These are your files. This is your country. And if you do not demand answers, nobody will.

Mitch Jackson, Esq.

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