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.

Several GOP senators spoke out Thursday, a day after the Wall Street Journal reported Attorney General Pam Bondi and her deputy Todd Blanche informed Trump in May that his name appeared multiple times in the Epstein files that the Department of Justice and the FBI reviewed.

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

His comments come after Trump's top envoy, Steve Witkoff, said yesterday that he was pulling the U.S. team of negotiators out of Doha, Qatar, after Hamas' latest response in the talks, saying it "clearly shows a lack of desire to reach a ceasefire in Gaza."

A resurfaced video of Epstein pleading the Fifth about his connection to the prez hasn't helped public interest. You can watch the clip here -- during the 2010 deposition, Epstein confirms he has socialized with Trump,

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.

The comment came after Trump was asked if he was considering pardoning the convicted sex trafficking associate of Jeffrey Epstein

Epstein — who associated with high-profile figures like Trump, former President Bill Clinton and Britain's Prince Andrew — was arrested on sex trafficking charges in 2019 but was found dead in his jail cell a month later in what was deemed a suicide by hanging, a ruling that has generated controversy and speculation.

The 2019 suicide of disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a New York jail cell generated conspiracy theories that he was killed by one of his famous connections.

Maria Farmer shared concerns about Jeffrey Epstein and his associations with Donald Trump and Bill Clinton in 1996 and 2006, she said.

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.