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The Justice Department is violating the Epstein Files Transparency Act by withholding documents that detail sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. An NPR investigation documented that more than 50 pages of FBI interviews and notes are missing from the public database, despite a law mandating their release. The missing documents include FBI interviews with a woman who accused Trump of sexual abuse when she was approximately 13 years old in 1983. According to released files, she told the FBI that Epstein introduced her to Trump, who forced her head down to his exposed penis, which she bit. Trump then punched her in the head and kicked her out. The FBI interviewed this woman four times between 2019 and 2021, but only the first interview appears in the public database, and that interview does not mention Trump. Of 15 documents listed in Maxwell case discovery material for this accuser, only seven are in the Epstein files database. A second woman's interview was removed from the public files after initial publication on January 30 and only republished on February 19. She described how Epstein took her to Mar-a-Lago to meet Trump when she was around 13 years old and being abused by Epstein. According to the FBI report, Epstein told Trump, "This is a good one, huh." Multiple FBI interviews with other people refer to this meeting, yet some remain offline, including an interview with the woman's mother. NPR's investigation involved reviewing multiple sets of unique serial numbers stamped onto documents, FBI case records, emails, and discovery document logs. House Oversight Committee ranking member Rep. Robert Garcia confirmed that "the DOJ appears to have illegally withheld FBI interviews with this survivor who accused President Trump of heinous crimes." Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have opened a parallel investigation. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche claimed in a February 14 letter that no records were withheld based on embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity. The evidence contradicts this assertion. Congress must exercise its constitutional authority as a coequal branch of government and order the Department of Justice to release all documents in the Epstein files collection immediately. These survivors deserve transparency, and the law demands it.