The FBI received an explosive tip in October of 2020 regarding then-President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein and an incident that allegedly took place in the 1990s, a new release from the Justice Department revealed Tuesday.

An FBI report documenting the tip was made public early Tuesday morning as part of the DOJ’s ongoing release of Epstein files, and includes multiple allegations involving Trump and Epstein from at least two sources, though some are second-hand.

The allegations are unverified, and no public record exists that law enforcement investigated or confirmed their authenticity.

The individual who submitted the tip appears to be a limousine driver from the Dallas-Fort Worth Metropolitan Area in Texas. The FBI report about the tip recounts an incident on Christmas Eve of 1999, when the driver shared a story with their passenger about how they had driven Trump in 1995 to the DFW Airport.

The driver went on to share more details with their passenger about their 1995 drive with Trump.

“[REDACTED 1] reported some of things President Trump had spoken about during the ride while on his cell phone were very concerning,” the report reads.

“[REDACTED 1] reported he was ‘a few seconds from pulling the limousine over on the median and within a few seconds of pulling him out of the car and hurting him due to some of things he was saying’ as caller choose not to. [REDACTED 1] noted Trump continuously stated the name ‘Jeffrey’ while on the phone, and made references to ‘abusing some girl.’ [REDACTED 1] was unsure who he was talking to nor who he was referencing.”

The FBI report goes on to note that the driver indicated, after sharing his story with his passenger about Trump, that the passenger’s demeanor changed abruptly.

“As [REDACTED 1] talked about his time meeting Donald Trump, immediately [REDACTED 2's] demeanor went ‘stone cold’ as [REDACTED 2] stated ‘he raped me,’” the report reads.

“[REDACTED 1] said ‘what’ as [REDACTED 2] replied ‘Donald J. Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.’ [REDACTED 2] noted some girl with a funny name ‘took me into a fancy hotel or building, that's how it happened.’”

Earlier references in the report suggest that the “girl with a funny name” was likely Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s co-conspirator who is currently serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking.

The limousine driver – presumably, based on context – then advised their passenger to alert authorities about the incident, according to the report, which the passenger objected to on the grounds that “they will kill me,” the report reads.

In a statement released Tuesday, the DOJ said, "The Department of Justice has officially released nearly 30,000 more pages of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein. Some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election.

"To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already. Nevertheless, out of our commitment to the law and transparency, the DOJ is releasing these documents with the legally required protections for Epstein’s victims."

The limousine driver would later attempt to follow up with the passenger, but learned that the passenger had died and was “found with her head ‘blown off’ in Kiefer, OK,” according to the report, which also states that the passenger’s death was ruled “a suicide.”

A handwritten note purportedly written by Jeffrey Epstein to a convicted pedophile in which he claims Donald Trump “shares our love of young, nubile girls” left a MS NOW panel almost speechless on Tuesday morning.

Towards the end of the Morning Joe” episode that had been light-hearted all morning as the holiday weekend looms, the panel became deadly serious as co-host Jonathan Lemire read from the letter, included in the freshly released Epstein files.

As Lemire told his colleagues, the letter was supposedly mailed three days after Epstein died in his prison cell where he was being held on sex trafficking charges.

Written to Larry Nassar, sentenced to 60 years in prison for abusing hundreds of children and young women during the time when he was the team doctor for the United States women's national gymnastics team, Epstein lamented that they were in jail while Trump walked free.

Epstein wrote, “As you know by now, I have taken the ‘short route’ home. Good luck! We shared one thing… our love & caring for young ladies at the hope they'd reach their full potential,” before adding, “Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to ‘grab s——h,’ whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system. Life is unfair. Yours, J. Epstein”

Lemire cautioned viewers, “Let's just pause on this one for a second. Yeah, first of all, there's that odd mention of taking a short route home, coming just days before Epstein's death, so we can speculate as to what that could be, but also flat out says that, you know, talking about President Trump, who was in office at the time, also appreciating the virtues of young girls.”

“Yeah, and this is one of those great examples we've been asking, why wouldn't the president want this information out if he had done nothing illegal, if there was nothing proven in these documents? Here's one great example of, you know, who knows how many,” co-host Joe Scarborough replied.

“And so obviously, this is the last thing that any politician would want out there where you have two, two convicted sex offenders talking about how the president loves young women just as much as them, but they're in jail and he's not.”

“Even if he didn't do anything that appeared to be illegal in those documents, why would he do everything he could to suppress the documents from the American people, actually seeing what's in the Epstein files?” he asked.

“At minimum, deeply embarrassing and raises all sorts of questions,” Lemire conceded.

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Nick Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist.