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In exclusive comments given to Status Coup from inside the new Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room in New York City, an attorney for a woman who accused Donald Trump of sexually and physically assaulting her in the early 1980s—when she was between the ages of 13 and 15—said the president is “willfully” covering something up and withholding critically important documents.
“I can’t speak to that individual or any of those allegations or anything along those lines, but what I can say is I am fairly confident, if not absolutely confident, that Donald Trump and his administration are willfully covering up something,” Arick Fudali, Partner and Managing Attorney at The Bloom Firm, told Status Coup.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Fudali’s accusations.
The woman, who has not been publicly identified, accused Trump of forcing her to perform oral sex on him. During the assault, she claims she bit Trump who responded by hitting her in the face. The Charleston Post and Courier has confirmed many of the details the woman told the FBI unrelated to Trump, however the Trump assault allegations remains unverified.
Fudali added that the president is “willfully trying to withhold documents,” stating he could be doing so to protect himself from looking bad, or his friends, or his administration.
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Although Fudali didn’t specify, the documents he may be referring to could be connected to 37 pages of FBI notes from his client’s 2019 interviews with the FBI that the Trump administration has still not released.
Soon after the initial release of the Epstein Files, independent journalist Roger Sollenberger broke the news that the Trump DOJ had released just one out of four interviews with the woman who accused Trump of sexual and physical assault in the early 1980s.
Fudali also addressed what he views as the president launching “distractions” to move the public’s attention away from the Epstein Files and his own potential culpability.
“Whether he’s trying to withhold documents that make him look bad, or his friends look bad, or his administration look bad, I don’t know what but it is clear at this point by the way these documents have been rolled out, the fact that we needed a law to get Donald Trump to release these documents, the way that his administration was bragging about the fact that they had the documents, that they were going to release them, then did a complete 180, the timing of a lot of these distractions—I’m confident that this is a cover up. Why? My guess is as good as yours at this point.”
In four interviews with the FBI between July and October of 2019, the Trump accuser alleged meeting Jeffery Epstein on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina. She claims Epstein assaulted her multiple times over a protracted period and then trafficked her to either New Jersey or New York, where she says Trump met and then assaulted her.
The FBI took notes on the four interviews to compose summaries of the conversations. Initially, the Department of Justice released only the first of the four interview summaries under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. After public and media pressure, it published the remaining summaries. The FBI notes remain hidden.
References within the Epstein Files indicate DOJ gave copies of the notes to Ghislaine Maxwell as discovery while prosecuting her for her role in Epstein’s crimes.
Status Coup will continue investigating the Epstein Files, current and new allegations against the president and other powerful politicians and oligarchs, and the financial crimes that helped Epstein launder money and power his trafficking ring.
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