Democrats Investigate DOJ Over Epstein Files Involving Trump (w/ Roger Sollenberger)
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🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Tim Miller is joined by reporter Roger Sollenberger to discuss Sollenberger’s reporting on Epstein-related records connected to Donald Trump. Roger breaks down the documents from a survivor who allegedly accused Trump of abuse as a minor, the interviews conducted by the FBI, and claims that portions of the investigative files were held by DOJ. They also examine document logs, slideshow materials listing prominent names associated with the Epstein investigation, and allegations that transparency obligations required by law related to the Epstein files were not met.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. It's Tim Miller from the bulwark here with my buddy Roger Solenberger, who has a |
| 0:05.3 | substack called Roger Solenberger, clever substack title. And he has been all over a very important |
| 0:12.9 | story about a Trump accuser that was in the Epstein files and the effort to cover up information about her. |
| 0:23.3 | So, Roger, thanks for jumping on. |
| 0:24.6 | Thanks a lot for having me, man. |
| 0:26.3 | There are a lot of layers to this story. |
| 0:28.3 | So let's just like start from square one. |
| 0:31.2 | Kudos to you, by the way. |
| 0:32.5 | You've been on this. |
| 0:34.0 | And since your kind of series has started on your substack we've now had NPR jump on this |
| 0:39.9 | we've had the house oversight Dems put out a formal statement on this obviously there's a lot |
| 0:45.6 | of evidence here and I appreciate that you were relentless really let's just be honest |
| 0:52.3 | and and driving the story so folks who haven't been following it, |
| 0:56.7 | initial story was basically there's this underage accuser who included Trump rape allegations |
| 1:02.2 | in her lawsuit against Epstein. Tell us what we know about that. Yeah, so it started because |
| 1:08.3 | I found this claim in DOJ slideshow. |
| 1:13.3 | And, you know, the reporting has always bothered me that it's, it seemed too deferential. |
| 1:18.4 | Like Trump has not been accused of wrongdoing, not credibly accused of wrongdoing. |
| 1:22.8 | And in my mind, it does seem like even before this, like, you know, there's plenty of stuff. |
| 1:29.1 | Well, there's plenty of credible adult accusations. That's what I always kind of want to |
| 1:33.1 | chime in. Anytime people are like, there's no credible accusations of wrong to him. |
| 1:36.4 | I'm like, well, I mean, he admitted to sexual assault of women on tape. And he's in the civil |
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