(NewsNation) — The Trump administration has slammed a new report about him being briefed in May about his name appearing in documents related to Jeffrey Epstein.
Multiple sources confirmed to NewsNation that Attorney General Pam Bondi briefed President Donald Trump in May about his name being mentioned in documents related to the investigation into Epstein.
The meeting came before a portion of the files, containing Trump’s name, were released in big white binders to influencers, a White House official confirmed.
It’s unclear what the files were and if they were related to any criminal activity, or to any known associations before Epstein was a convicted criminal.
Responding to Wall Street Journal‘s report on Bondi’s briefing to Trump, his spokesperson Steven Cheung wrote, “The fact is that the President kicked him out of his club for being a creep.”
“This is nothing more than a continuation of the fake news stories concocted by the Democrats and the liberal media, just like the Obama Russiagate scandal, which President Trump was right about.”
The WSJ article detailed how Bondi and other Justice Department officials told Trump that he was named multiple times in the files, among other people. Trump was also told the files contained what they believed was hearsay about him and other people named who socialized with Epstein in the past, WSJ reported.
Trump and Epstein were in the same social circles from the 1980s well through the 2000s and were photographed at events together. They also frequented Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate and Epstein’s Manhattan residence, along with now-First Lady Melania Trump and Ghislaine Maxwell, who was Epstein’s longtime partner.
Amid outrage over the Epstein files being withheld, a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee recently voted to subpoena Maxwell for a deposition hearing.
The deposition will take place on Aug. 11 at 10 am.
Maxwell’s attorney, David Markus, said of the deposition, “We understand Speaker Johnson’s general concern—Congress should always vet the credibility of its witnesses. But in this case, those concerns are unfounded. If Ms. Maxwell agrees to testify before Congress and not take the 5th—and that remains a big if—she would testify truthfully, as she always has said she would and as she will with AG Todd Blanche. The truth should not be feared or preemptively dismissed. No previous prosecutor from the Southern District of New York or elsewhere has had the courage to meet with Ms. Maxwell and ask her these important questions. So we are grateful to Mr. Blanche and his DOJ that they are approaching this with an open mind. That’s how our system is supposed to work.
“As for the Congressional subpoena, Ms. Maxwell is taking this one step at a time. She looks forward to her meeting with the Department of Justice, and that discussion will help inform how she proceeds.”