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.

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.

Karl Rove warned President Donald Trump that his failure to deliver answers in the Jeffrey Epstein saga means there could be “hell to pay” politically. The GOP operative cautioned in a Wall Street Journal column Wednesday that the president’s supporters may end up tuning out of politics because of unresolved questions about Trump’s ties to the late sex offender,

The House left a day early for a summer break that Sen. Chuck Schumer has dubbed "the Epstein recess" as Democrats try to capitalize on a major pain point for Republicans.

CNN host Abby Phillip asked senior political commentator Scott Jennings directly Wednesday why President Donald Trump doesn’t “just own up to” being named in the sought-after Justice Department files on late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

It’s the latest sign that Trump has lost control of the Epstein narrative and that the saga has broken Washington containment.

Republican House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson said the Jeffrey Epstein scandal was "not a hoax" in an interview released on Thursday, as the case continued to stoke turmoil within President Donald Trump's party.

Todd Blanche, the number two at the DOJ, spent the day in a Florida prison talking to convicted Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell. MSNBC’s Antonia Hylton reports and is joined by MSNBC legal analyst Joyce Vance and Norm Eisen,