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The woman who told the FBI that Trump assaulted her as a child "refused to cooperate" with the FBI against him; her name was initially unredacted in a previously unreported file.
In this report:
The DOJ initially exposed the name of the Trump accuser
The DOJ chose to review and release some files — including files related to the accuser that we still don’t have — in a way that made the process more difficult and, curiously, potentially legally problematic
The FBI appears to have approached the accuser about a criminal investigation or potential prosecution against Trump, but she “refused to cooperate”
The Justice Department’s shambolic redaction process in its rollout of the Epstein files exposed sensitive information about vulnerable people who participated in the government’s cases against Jeff Epstein and convicted accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, including victim names, personal identifying information, and even, The New York Times reported, dozens of uncensored images of the faces and nude bodies of evidently young females.
I’ve learned that in one previously unreported document, the DOJ initially published the name of the Epstein victim who told the FBI that Donald Trump sexually assaulted her when she was a child. That document has since been properly redacted. But another identifying detail pertaining to the Trump accuser’s case, on another document, is still unredacted in the database.
As independent journalists Nina Burleigh and Kate Chenoweth reported last week, this woman appears to have had a unique status in the Epstein case: No other victim or witness in the DOJ’s full Epstein case file index is marked “PROTECT SOURCE.” Any victim or witness in this case would have a reason to fear retaliation from any number of wealthy, powerful, well-connected men. Only one of them — the Trump accuser — appears to have this note next to her name, which the DOJ still managed to publish.
Other information in the files reinforces this victim’s significance. An internal FBI email this summer — headed “Names in JE file” and sent July 22, 2025, two days before Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche interviewed Maxwell in prison — provides the results of “positive case hits” of famous people in the files. The first name on the list is Donald Trump, and the email notes “one identified victim claimed abuse by Trump but ultimately refused to cooperate.” None of the other names have any notes by them. Burleigh and Chenoweth first reported the existence of this letter.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-188968507
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DOJ Exposed Name of Trump Underage Accuser After She "Refused To Cooperate" Against Him
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