President Donald Trump has called the persistent controversy around his connection to Jeffrey Epstein a “scam.” In a Truth Social post on Thursday, the president claimed it was the “Radical Left Democrats” who were trying to distract from his political achievements by focusing on the mysterious Epstein files.

Several GOP senators spoke out Thursday, a day after the Wall Street Journal reported Attorney General Pam Bondi and her deputy Todd Blanche informed Trump in May that his name appeared multiple times in the Epstein files that the Department of Justice and the FBI reviewed.

President Donald Trump's new gambit to try to use new testimony from convicted Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell to distract or placate his base from the exploding controversy over why he hasn't released the entirety of the files on the Epstein case is unlikely to work,

Two years before Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met with convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell in connection with a scandal that will not die, he and her defense attorney David O. Markus traded stories about surreal moments visiting clients behind bars.

The revelation that Attorney General Pam Bondi told President Donald Trump that his name was in the Jeffrey Epstein files has focused fresh attention on the president’s relationship with the wealthy financier.

The 2019 suicide of disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a New York jail cell generated conspiracy theories that he was killed by one of his famous connections.

In an statement shared with Newsweek, the White House denied that an encounter described by Farmer took place.

Maria Farmer shared concerns about Jeffrey Epstein and his associations with Donald Trump and Bill Clinton in 1996 and 2006, she said.

It’s the latest sign that Trump has lost control of the Epstein narrative and that the saga has broken Washington containment.