U.S. President Donald Trump walks from Marine One to the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., January 20, 2026. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
President Donald Trump's administration has apparently been aware of allegations he assaulted a woman, according to one reporter reviewing the latest batch of Epstein files.
CNN correspondent MJ Lee reported Friday on the contents of some of the "302 documents" that are included in the most recent tranche of Jeffrey Epstein-related documents the Department of Justice (DOJ) recently released. 302 forms are official FBI files for documenting witness interviews and summarizing victim statements.
"When you go through the files that were released today, there are multiple 302s, and they are significant because for many of these survivors, they've been wondering for years, sometimes decades — 'is there a a record of what I once told the FBI about Epstein's wrongdoings? Everything I know about him and his actions?'" Lee said.
"But the important thing is that they may not actually get the answers to whether the FBI actually did anything to follow up on these complaints," she continued. "But I do know for a fact that there are survivors who are currently poring through these documents, trying to see if they can see that their 302, the information they gave the FBI, are included in these documents."
Lee noted that many of Epstein's victims have said that despite the DOJ being more than a month past the statutory deadline imposed by the Epstein Files Transparency Act — which was presumably so the Justice Department could make all appropriate redactions to protect victims — some of their names and identifying information remain unredacted. This is despite Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche saying during a Friday press conference that names and faces of all women in the files were redacted.
"Todd Blanche, you heard him saying that he very much cares about protecting the identity of the victims. But even some Jane Does that I've spoken with, they say that their names are all throughout the file," Lee said. "So there is, to say the least, a lot of anger coming from the survivors and the victims about how the redactions have been botched once again."
CNN host Brianna Keilar then asked about the DOJ reportedly pulling a link containing damning allegations about President Donald Trump, before restoring access once journalists noticed the omission. Lee noted that despite Blanche saying the DOJ did not try to protect Trump in the latest release, Justice Department leaders apparently discussed the allegations amongst themselves.
"There is a document in the files that were released today that does show that there were at least internal discussions within Trump's DOJ about allegations of sexual assault that were made against Donald Trump that were received through an FBI tip line," she said. "And officials here appear to be discussing a list of these tips that came in. We are not going to detail them because many of them are unverified tips, but the FBI officials even went as far as to color-code the various tips, saying yellow is going to be used for the more salacious allegations against Donald Trump. Some of them we can see in the document, were followed up on, others were not, and some were deemed not credible."
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