The president said a Wall Street Journal report alleging that a racy letter sent to Epstein on his 50th Birthday in 2003 bore his name and signature was “FAKE NEWS.”

The president’s directive follows weeks of uproar surrounding the handling of the so-called Epstein files and after Trump announced his plans to sue the Wall Street Journal after the paper published a bombshell report detailing a bawdy birthday card Trump allegedly gave to Jeffrey Epstein.

Bondi's announcement came after an explosive Wall Street Journal report about a letter Trump sent to Epstein in 2003.

Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Justice Department has fired Maurene Comey, the federal prosecutor in the Sean “Diddy” Combs, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell cases and the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, according to reports.

President Donald Trump offered a full-throated defense of Attorney General Pam Bondi on Saturday amid criticism from some in his base over the release of a memo about accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein,

The fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein files flap is cascading, further roiling a Justice Department and FBI that have struggled for months to appease the demands of far-right conservative personalities and influential members of President Donald Trump’s base.