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'Later found dead': Dem lawmaker flags explosive Trump allegation in Epstein files (www.rawstory.com)

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Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) flagged an extraordinarily explosive allegation against President Donald Trump Thursday night, one uncovered in the Justice Department’s release of files on Jeffrey Epstein, and demanded the the DOJ take immediate action in interviewing witnesses.

“Dear [Attorney General Pam Bondi]: Since you creepily spied on the unredacted Epstein files I read, you know I read this one,” Lieu wrote Thursday in a social media post on X, referencing reports that Bondi and her agency appeared to be tracking lawmakers’ searches in its Epstein files database.

“Witness calls FBI’s [National Threat Operations Center] and reports girl, later found dead, told him Trump and Epstein raped her. DOJ NEVER INTERVIEWS WITNESS. When will DOJ interview this witness?”

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[–] Hegar@fedia.io 20 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA): “Witness calls FBI’s [National Threat Operations Center] and reports girl, later found dead, told him Trump and Epstein raped her. DOJ NEVER INTERVIEWS WITNESS. When will DOJ interview this witness?”

The file in question is an unverified tip submitted to the FBI in 2020 from a limousine driver who claimed to have driven Trump in the 1990s, and recalled Trump making “very concerning” comments about “abusing some girl,” while also "continuously" stating the name “Jeffrey.”

The tip also included unverified allegations that Trump and Epstein had raped a young girl who was later found with her head “blown off,” details of which were later partially corroborated by local news outlets

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

For anyone who wants to see the actual file Lieu is talking about, it's here:

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%208/EFTA00020517.pdf

I've gotten to where I never pay a lot of attention to the reporting about a file; instead, I just look up the file itself. Why read someone else's words about it when I can read the source?

If you want to do this too, know that you can't just type in the EFTA number on the justice.gov search page. Instead, what you have to do is find a string of keywords and type those in, then match the EFTA number to the result.

The more unique your search string, the more narrow the results will be. For this I used problems with her daughters from the middle of the first page, and it took me right to the specific file.

I haven't tried any of the other search tools yet, those may be easier to use.