The Justice Department said unsealing grand jury transcripts related to Epstein's case is necessary given "longstanding and legitimate" public interest in the case.

President Donald Trump has struggled to meet demands he helped stoked for information about Jeffrey Epstein's criminal case.

Donald Trump has radically escalated his condemnation of his own supporters on social media in the midst of an unprecedented moment of division within the MAGA coalition about the Trump administration's conflicting reports about the existence of Jeffrey Epstein's client list and its willingness to release its contents.

President Donald Trump raged against the MAGA “troublemakers” and “radical left lunatics” demanding further disclosure on the “Epstein files” Saturday. The seething president, who has spent the last week batting away questions about his connections with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein,

Yes, the president is in the files, and his own administration provided that information back in February when Attorney General Pam Bondi released the “Epstein Files: Phase I.” While that release was a dud, featuring mostly redacted information and things that had already been reported, Trump’s name was there.

Donald Trump was friendly for at least 15 years with Jeffrey Epstein, the multimillionaire financier and convicted sex offender who died in prison in 2019.

Despite recent claims by President Donald Trump that former Biden officials doctored files related to Jeffrey Epstein, many of the documents -- including those mentioning Trump and several prominent Democrats -- have been public for years.

President Donald Trump outraged many of his supporters after the Justice Department published an unsigned memo saying it would not release any more documents related to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. For years, Trump and some members of his administration fanned conspiracy theories about the content of the files.

For nearly 15 years, the two men socialized together in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Fla., before a falling out that preceded Mr. Epstein’s first arrest.

Several Trump backers have called for more transparency after Pam Bondi's Justice Department announced that no more files would be released.

1997 Trump and Epstein were photographed standing near each other at a Victoria’s Secret “Angels” party, according to a Getty image of Trump posing with model Ingrid Seynhaeve that shows Epstein in the background.

A rumor that circulated online in July 2025 claimed U.S. President Donald Trump once called now-deceased financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein a "fun" and "terrific guy," adding, "It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side."