In 2007, while Bush was president, federal investigators at the FBI and U.S. attorney's office prepared to indict Epstein, but negotiations between Epstein’s lawyers and the U.S. attorney's office in Florida’s Southern District led by Alexander Acosta resulted in a secret deal that let Epstein avoid federal charges.

President Donald Trump made the claim that the Justice Department’s files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were “made up” by former President Barack Obama, ex-FBI director James Comey and the Biden administration.

The president, who definitely cares about MAGA’s obsession with the Epstein files, wishes right-wingers would let it go and leave AG Pam Bondi alone in long rant

When asked by a reporter if the attorney general told President Donald Trump whether his name appeared in any of the records, he said, “No, no.”

President Trump on Tuesday expressed his support for Attorney General Pam Bondi’s handling of documents related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein amid uproar from his supporters over a lack of transparency.

Trump has tried to distance himself from the Epstein fiasco, telling the media and his own supporters to stop talking about the convicted sex offender. In a Truth Social post on Wednesday, Trump lashed out at his own supporters and claimed that the scandal around the Epstein files was a “hoax” promoted by Democrats.

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says Democrats calls for transparency are the real Jeffrey Epstein "hoax," amid MAGA outrage over files.

Columnist Issac J. Bailey writes that Trump’s presidency began with the birtherism conspiracy theory so it would be “political poetry” if his spreading a different conspiracy theory was the cause of his political downfall.