U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi told President Donald Trump in May that his name appeared in Justice Department files related to financier Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender who died in prison,

The case of Jeffrey Epstein, sex offender and former friend of the president, has blown up into a major headache for the White House.

The White House responded after the Wall Street Journal reported that Pam Bondi told Trump his name was in the Epstein files.

With a new report claiming that US President Donald Trump knew his name was present in case files related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, the White House on Wednesday pulled out all the stops to redirect public attention.

The Wall Street Journal's report that the Justice Department informed Donald Trump in May about his name being in the Epstein files is a continuation of "fake news stories" against the U.S. president,

Attorney General Pam Bondi informed the President in May; White House dismisses it as 'not new or surprising.'

Maria Farmer, who once worked for Epstein, told The New York Times that she had encountered Trump in Epstein's Manhattan offices in 1995.

House lawmakers ran to catch flights Wednesday afternoon -- leaving for their August recess a day early -- without taking a substantive vote on releasing the Epstein files. On their way out the door, some Republicans acknowledged they're bracing for serious Epstein-related questions from the MAGA base when they get home.

Mark Epstein, the older brother of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, refuted the White House’s claims that President Trump never visited the disgraced financier at his office. “That’s

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the national intelligence director, Tulsi Gabbard is responsible for guarding America’s secrets and discovering threats from overseas. But when she made a surprise appearance in the White House briefing room Wednesday, her targets were President Donald Trump’s political enemies.