David Schoen, a former lawyer for Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, said Attorney General Pam Bondi and other officials “jumped the gun a bit” in overhyping the Epstein files. Schoen in an interview with BBC “Newsnight” Thursday said there is no Epstein “client list” that would highlight connections between the disgraced financier and wealthy individuals.

President Donald Trump on Friday denied that Attorney General Pam Bondi had told him that his name appears in the so-called “Epstein files” connected to accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Trump stunningly made the claim even though multiple reports say that Bondi briefed Trump in May that his name was found in Epstein documents “multiple times.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met on Thursday with Ghislaine Maxwell for several hours at a federal courthouse in Tallahassee, Florida.

As President Donald Trump struggles to contain the fallout over his ties to the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, lawmakers on Capitol Hill and officials within his own administration are turning to Ghislaine Maxwell, the financier’s longtime co-conspirator and sometime girlfriend.

A lawyer for Maxwell says she "answered all the questions truthfully, honestly and to the best of her ability.”