Social media is flooded with Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein's past joint appearances, and yet US authorities, including the DOJ is on the Republican leader's side.

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.

President Donald Trump's new gambit to try to use new testimony from convicted Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell to distract or placate his base from the exploding controversy over why he hasn't released the entirety of the files on the Epstein case is unlikely to work,