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When it comes to the Jeffrey Epstein files, Maryland Democrats are hoping to seize an opportunity to hold President Donald Trump’s feet to the fire.
Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein partied together for more than a decade. One became president, the other died in jail.
The Wall Street Journal has also published an article alleging that Trump was among prominent figures named in the Epstein files.
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.
Trump is among other prominent figures named in the previously unsealed documents. He was mentioned in a 2016 deposition from Johanna Sjoberg, one of Epstein’s victims, who said the disgraced financier’s plane made an impromptu stop in Atlantic City in the 2000s. Sjoberg said “no” when asked if she’d given Trump a massage.
President Trump has come under fire from a section of his MAGA base over his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case.
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, 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.
The New York Times also published a photo of Trump and the sex offender financier posing with singer James Brown.
The Trump administration has been embroiled in a firestorm of backlash related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation this month.
A bombshell report has revealed that there are at least 100,000 pages of documents in the Jeffrey Epstein files. The shocking scale of the files will increase pressure on the White House to release more evidence as President Donald Trump comes under fire from his own supporters.
New polling reveals that the fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal continues to cast a shadow over Donald Trump and his administration.