1. United States
2. Wisc.
3. Letter

I am writing to demand immediate action regarding the Justice Department's unlawful withholding of documents from the public Epstein files database. An NPR investigation has revealed that Attorney General Pam Bondi's Justice Department has removed and withheld documents containing allegations of sexual abuse against President Trump, in direct violation of the law mandating their release. The missing files include more than 50 pages of FBI interviews with two women who accused Trump of sexual abuse when they were minors. The first woman described an incident around 1983 when she was approximately 13 years old, claiming Trump forced her head down to his exposed penis and then punched her in the head when she bit him. The FBI interviewed her four times between 2019 and 2021, yet only the first interview from July 24, 2019 appears in the public database, and that interview does not mention Trump. Of 15 documents listed in Maxwell discovery material for this accuser, only seven are in the public database. The second woman, a key prosecution witness in Ghislaine Maxwell's trial, detailed in FBI interviews how Epstein introduced her to Trump at Mar-a-Lago when she was around 13 years old. According to the interview report, Epstein told Trump, "This is a good one, huh." This interview was removed from the public files after initial publication on January 30 and only republished on February 19. Attorney General Bondi claimed in a February 14 letter to Congress that no records were withheld based on embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity. This statement is contradicted by the documented evidence of missing files containing allegations against the president. Members of both parties have accused the Justice Department of violating the law and operating without transparency. I urge you to call for Attorney General Bondi's removal and demand the immediate and complete release of all Epstein files as required by law. The Justice Department must not be allowed to selectively withhold evidence to protect powerful individuals from accountability.