Where are the missing Epstein files that point to Trump?
The News Agents - USA
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🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Has the DOJ withheld documents from the Epstein files that relate to allegations against President Trump? That's the accusation from senior Democrats after an NPR investigation found that more than 50 pages of FBI interviews and notes from a conversation with a woman who accused Trump of sexual abuse when she was a minor were removed from the dataset.
California Congressman Robert Garcia is calling it "the largest government cover up in modern history". The White House says that President Trump has been "totally exonerated on anything relating to Jeffrey Epstein". So what's actually going on?
We speak to the editor of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, about Epstein, the State of the Union address, and the state of journalism in the era of Trump.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.2 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:17.7 | And I'm the expert in a way because I've been totally exonerated. |
| 0:21.6 | And I've been totally exonerated. In fact, Jeffrey Epstein was fighting that I don't get elected. |
| 0:29.6 | And I've been totally exonerated. |
| 0:33.6 | I have nothing to hide. I've been exonerated. I have nothing to hide. |
| 0:39.4 | I've been exonerated. |
| 0:40.6 | I have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 0:42.5 | I've been totally exonerated on Epstein and it's really interesting. |
| 0:51.2 | But I'm the one that can talk about it because they've been totally exonerated. |
| 0:57.3 | I think we get the message. Donald Trump says he has been totally exonerated by the Epstein Files. |
| 1:07.4 | Really? |
| 1:08.4 | Dozens of witness interviews are missing from that massive trove of files. |
| 1:15.5 | Many of them relate to interviews given by a woman, a girl at the time, who accused Donald Trump. |
| 1:23.9 | So has there been an Epstein cover-up? |
| 1:26.8 | And should we now be looking more closely at Trump? |
| 1:30.7 | Welcome to the Newsagents USA. |
| 1:34.0 | The Newsagents USA with Emily Maitliss and John Sopel. |
| 1:38.7 | It's John. |
| 1:39.4 | It's Emily. |
| 1:40.1 | And we've been understandably obsessed about what has been happening in Britain |
| 1:44.0 | in relation to the Epstein files with Andrew Mountbatten, Windsor, and the former ambassador Peter Mandelton, Lord Mandelson, both of whom in the past 10 days have been arrested in relation to things to do with what has come out of the Epstein files. No one has been arrested in the US. |
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