The revelation that Attorney General Pam Bondi told President Donald Trump that his name was in the Jeffrey Epstein files has focused fresh attention on the president’s relationship with the wealthy financier.

While the president's ties to Jeffrey Epstein have been public knowledge for years, Hill Republicans have been forced to confront those connections like never before.

Two years before Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met with convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell in connection with a scandal that will not die, he and her defense attorney David O. Markus traded stories about surreal moments visiting clients behind bars.

President Trump on Friday morning at the White House told reporters they need to worry less about his connection to Jeffrey Epstein and focus on others, like former President Bill Clinton and ex-Harvard President Lawrence Summers.

A billboard on the Red Mountain Expressway in Birmingham is catching eyes and controversy with its message questioning the relationship between President Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, asking, "What's the big secret fellas?

I never went to that island,’ Trump says of Epstein’s underage getaway as he tells reporters to talk about Bill Clinton - Trump is visiting his golf courses in Scotland as questions continue to swirl

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.

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Back in 2010, Jeffrey Epstein stayed silent and invoked his rights instead of admitting whether he and Donald Trump socialized with underage girls.

Ankush Khardori is a senior writer for POLITICO Magazine and a former federal prosecutor at the Department of Justice. His column, Rules of Law, offers an unvarnished look at national legal affairs and the political dimensions of the law at a moment when the two are inextricably linked.