Home Oversight and Authorities Reform Committee rating member Rep. Robert Garcia (middle high row), D-Calif., speaks throughout a listening to final month.
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The highest Democrat on the Home Oversight Committee is asking the Justice Division for solutions after NPR’s investigation revealed Epstein information associated to President Trump are lacking from the general public file.
In a letter first shared with NPR, rating member Robert Garcia, D-Calif., is asking Legal professional Normal Pam Bondi to elucidate why what look like dozens of pages of interviews and interview notes associated to allegations of sexual abuse in opposition to President Trump weren’t amongst three million pages launched in current months.
“We’re witnessing a White Home cover-up of significant allegations in opposition to the president by a survivor,” Garcia mentioned in a press release to NPR. “We demand Legal professional Normal Pam Bondi come clear about why these paperwork are being hidden, adjust to our legally binding subpoena by sharing all information, and inform the American folks if their president is underneath investigation for allegations of sexual assault.”
NPR’s earlier reporting discovered inner FBI and Justice Division define paperwork associated to allegations from a lady who claimed that round 1983, when she was round 13 years previous, Jeffrey Epstein launched her to Trump, “who subsequently compelled her head right down to his uncovered penis which she subsequently bit. In response, Trump punched her within the head and kicked her out.”
Data launched final month present the FBI interviewed the lady 4 occasions, however solely a type of interviews has been revealed within the Justice Division’s public Epstein information database.
“In response to those disturbing revelations, DOJ refused to handle the particular causes for the withholding of those supplies, noting solely that it’s suppressing paperwork which are ‘duplicates, privileged, or a part of an ongoing federal investigation,'” Garcia wrote within the letter.
Garcia wrote that Bondi and the Justice Division have to elucidate why these paperwork have been withheld, and extra particularly if there may be an lively investigation into the sexual abuse allegations in opposition to the president.
“The American folks demand transparency and accountability, and any additional delay by the Division continues to disclaim justice to the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes,” he wrote. “DOJ should specify the precise grounds for the withholding of FBI interviews containing particular allegations in opposition to President Trump, in addition to present an replace on the standing of any ongoing investigations into allegations of sexual assault in opposition to President Trump.”
Democrats on the Home Oversight Committee have been investigating the Justice Division’s dealing with of the Epstein information and the discharge of paperwork required by legislation. Garcia mentioned yesterday a parallel investigation could be opened into these lacking paperwork.
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