The DOJ also sent Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Trump’s former personal attorney, to meet with Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, 63, who is serving a 20-year jail sentence after being convicted in 2021 of luring and grooming young girls for Epstein.

Even as an uproar over files relating to Jeffrey Epstein engulfs President Donald Trump and Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court is due to wade into the controversy and decide whether to hear a bid by an associate of the late financier and convicted sex offender to overturn her criminal conviction.

In conspiratorial pro-Trump spaces online, arguments rage over the US president's approach to the long-running saga.

🚨🚨🚨 Watch Jeffrey Epstein plead his Fifth, Sixth, and 14th Amendment rights when asked if he and Donald Trump socialized with females under the age of 18 during a 2010 deposition: Q: Have you ever had a personal relationship with Donald Trump? A. What do you mean by "personal… pic.twitter.com/JyM5LYJ0C4

Trump and Clinton's notes were part of a trove of birthday letters that Epstein's longtime associate and former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, compiled in a leather-bound album that she gave to Epstein as a gift for his 50th birthday.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, citing a medical issue, abruptly canceled her appearance at an anti-trafficking event amid public outcry over her handling of the Epstein files and renewed

Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump had signed a cryptic letter to Epstein for the book, written in the outline of a naked woman. At the time, Vance called the story “complete and utter bulls--t” and complained that the newspaper never showed them a copy of the alleged letter.

President Trump has come under fire from a section of his MAGA base over his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case.

U.S. President Donald Trump, dogged by questions about his ties to disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, headed to Scotland on Friday for a trip that will mix golf with politics mostly out of public view.