By Jeremy Herb and Marshall Cohen, CNN
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US President Donald Trump is mentioned more than 1000 times in the 3 million Jeffrey Epstein documents released Friday (US time), after the president initially resisted the effort. While some of the references are benign, others include newly disclosed unverified sexual assault claims against Trump as well as fresh details about how some of Epstein's victims described their interactions with the future president.
Most notably, the newly released documents contain a list of unverified assault allegations against Trump compiled by FBI officials last year. There are also FBI notes about a woman who accused Trump in a lawsuit of raping her when she was 13, and an FBI interview with one of Epstein's victims who stated that Epstein's accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell once "presented her" to Trump at a party.
There's no public evidence that any of the allegations against Trump contained in the new documents were deemed credible by the FBI, and the Justice Department said on Friday that the allegations against Trump in the documents were false.
Trump has long denied any wrongdoing related to Epstein or any allegation of sexual misconduct.
The revelations serve as a reminder of Trump's initial resistance against releasing the files, despite pledging to do so when he took office.
Congress ultimately bucked Trump and passed a law forcing the Justice Department to release all of the Epstein files by mid-December. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the Justice Department belatedly completed that duty on Friday with its release of 3.5 million documents, though Blanche said some documents were withheld u
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