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https://jesscravenvideos.substack.com/p/npr-just-confirmed-the-doj-coverupNPR just confirmed the DOJ coverup
It's bad.
Jess Craven
Feb 25, 2026
NPR just confirmed what Roger Sollenberger first reported: Three out of four FBI interviews with a woman who accused Trump of sexual abuse as a minor are missing. And now Congress says the DOJ illegally withheld them.
Congress is now investigating.
Heres what we know:
3 minute video at link : https://jesscravenvideos.substack.com/p/npr-just-confirmed-the-doj-coverup
ANother:
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/24/nx-s1-5723968/epstein-files-trump-accusation-maxwell
Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump
Updated February 24, 20262:55 PM ET
enid602
(9,628 posts)Katie Johnson
Wiz Imp
(9,601 posts)Joinfortmill
(20,786 posts)It sounds like it could be her to me. If I recall correctly, she feared for her life and withdrew her complaint.
Wiz Imp
(9,601 posts)This person's allegation against Trump took place in 1983. "Katie Johnson's" allegation was in 1994.
This person alleges that
"Katie Johnson" alleged 4 separate interactions with Trump, (she is referred to here as Jane Doe)
This person was interviewed by the FBI 4 separate times in in the case against Ghislane Maxwell starting in 2019.
"KAtie Johnson" was never interviewed by the FBI. She apparently did file a complaint with the FBI in July 2016. There is no record of any additional contact between her and the FBI.
crimycarny
(2,070 posts)Wow, there is another one. I was assuming it was the Katie Johnson interview. I haven't had time to read more about this latest event.
I remember seeing the interview with Katie Johnson, assumed it was with the FBI.
Joinfortmill
(20,786 posts)Wiz Imp
(9,601 posts)This article details that girl plus the girl from 1983.
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/24/nx-s1-5723968/epstein-files-trump-accusation-maxwell
The other woman whose mention of Trump made the DOJ's presentation appears in Maxwell discovery files released last month in what's known as a Testifying Witness 3500 material list.
In the first interview of six with the FBI conducted between September 2019 and September 2021, the second woman detailed how Epstein and Maxwell's abuse began while she was around 13 years old and attending the Interlochen Center for the Arts and described how, at one point, Epstein took her to Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club to meet him.
"EPSTEIN told TRUMP, 'This is a good one, huh,'" the interview report reads.
In a 2020 lawsuit against Epstein's estate and Maxwell, the second woman added that both men chuckled and she "felt uncomfortable, but, at the time, was too young to understand why."
This article talks about "Katie Johnson"
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2026/2/23/2369986/--Katie-Johnson-rape-allegation-against-Trump-amp-Epstein-appears-on-FBI-Complaint-form
Joinfortmill
(20,786 posts)Bread and Circuses
(1,802 posts)Russia runs the Oval Office
OMGWTF
(5,054 posts)Bread and Circuses
(1,802 posts)vapor2
(4,251 posts)Cha
(318,091 posts)is still in business... something about losing their funding.
We desperately Need Real News.
wnylib
(25,517 posts)They have come up with some creatitive ways to raise funds.
Cha
(318,091 posts)They are Brilliant
wnylib
(25,517 posts)But now they have a "plus" membership which gives extra access to additional programming from popular programs, for a fee. Most creative now is that they have a "Pets Club." People send in their pet's photo to join. When you pay to join, the Pic goes on their website.
They carry the usual standard NPR programs. But they have added some for a broader appeal.
There is a local sports talk program in which two sports savvy guys discuss various angles in all kinds of sports, not just baseball and football. Sometimes they get into ethics issues.
In the evening, they have current music from 8 PM until midnight. Local musicians play original music as well as standard current songs.
Twice a day they have BBC news, once for an hour at noon and then overnight starting at midnight.
They have a Group Chat program with about 4 local young people discussing popular social happendings and issues.
There is a program that started after the mass shooting at the TOPS Market a couple years ago. It began as a place for victims' families and people who were there to discuss the trauma and look for ways to heal. Then they expanded to cover local cultural issues for everyone.
Every weekday they have a Native News program for what's going on with local Senecas and Native nations across the country.
They added a few programs with conservative centrist views. I listened to them a few times, but found their perspective too offputting for me.
They partnered with the local PBS TV station. Since Toronto is so close and within listening range, they cover some Canadian news, mostly sports like hockey.
Cha
(318,091 posts)the Pet Interactions.. as I said.. Brilliant.
Mahalo for telling us all about what NPR is Doing Right Now!
llmart
(17,498 posts)I've upped my monthly gift once the Doofus cut their funding.
kerry-is-my-prez
(10,249 posts)hadEnuf
(3,577 posts)We should turn NPR into Democrats and progressives Fox news, except armed with the truth.
It's not government-funded anymore so the GOP can keep their Filthy Hands off of it
slightlv
(7,648 posts)although I started hearing a story the other night on the way to the store, and had to turn the radio dial. The whole thing was slanted so far to RW it made me sick to my stomach. So, the Progressives and Left have a way to take over NPR and turn it into what we really want -- real facts, real truth, real news -- all the time. BTW, I don't remember what the story I heard was about, I turned it off after I heard them bemoaning about how much Johnson has to endure, and how it is so unfair to him as House Leader.
Timewas
(2,705 posts)What a surorise
wnylib
(25,517 posts)Glad to hear that Congress is taking this up.
Lovie777
(22,503 posts)plus other countries are also investigating.
Unfortunately, shithole and Republican party may do something which will be extremely evil to the USA.
Look at what they are doing now.
surfered
(12,699 posts)
Amaryllis
(11,174 posts)Hugin
(37,720 posts)flvegan
(66,110 posts)LOL, yeah, right.
OldBaldy1701E
(10,853 posts)MW67
(123 posts)Pardon her, I'm sure
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erronis
(23,389 posts)bluestarone
(21,896 posts)UTUSN
(77,427 posts)dickthegrouch
(4,438 posts)Its logged when collected, logged when transferred from one person to another. Logged when put in storage. Logged when removed or searched or viewed. Evidence tracking tools would have to have been altered and all that is logged separately if its computerized. All the people that provided evidence or testimony or depositions also know what their involvement was.
Covering all this up has to be a massive operation in itself.
I hope some agents still have scruples and are keeping evidence of the cover up , if not some of the original evidence to blow it all wide open eventually.
Spoliation of evidence is a serious crime in itself.
mysteryowl
(9,108 posts)aggiesal
(10,695 posts)maxsolomon
(38,497 posts)Clearly, Congress must defund NPR even more!
BattleRow
(2,197 posts)access to Epstein files? Consider the multitude of possibilities...
Amaryllis
(11,174 posts)struggle4progress
(125,859 posts)Fare thee well, Titanic! fare thee well!
Now they wouldn't let Jack Johnson on board.
They said this ship don't haul no coal.
Fare thee well, Titanic! fare thee well!
All of a sudden, the Captain's eyes popped wide open.
He stood right up straight, grabs hold o'th' wheel, looks on out at the bow o'that boat
and he says, "I'm gonna move you, baby!"
And he did right on into an iceberg, and she went right on down ...
malaise
(294,891 posts)That moment is coming
Joinfortmill
(20,786 posts)a kennedy
(35,735 posts)spanone
(141,287 posts)leftstreet
(39,843 posts)BlueWaveNeverEnd
(13,721 posts)flamingdem
(40,841 posts)according to Sheldon Whitehouse.