Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met with Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell today as the Trump administration and Republican lawmakers deal with public backlash over the administration’s handling of the so-called Epstein files.

Social media users mocked Mullin for suggesting he is trying to give “cover” to Trump over the Epstein files. This comes just one day after the Wall Street Journal reported that Attorney General Pam Bondi informed Trump in May that he was included in the Epstein files.

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.

President Donald Trump has helped Speaker Mike Johnson survive every political storm of his speakership. Now, Johnson is stuck in a crisis of Trump’s own making over Jeffrey Epstein — and there’s no clear way forward without risking the ire of the speaker’s most critical ally.

Shortly after 6 p.m., Johnson, Majority Leader Steve Scalise and other GOP leaders huddled with the GOP Rules members in Majority Whip Tom Emmer’s office. Inside the room, Johnson and his team laid out several options, according to three people with direct knowledge of the meeting.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Donald Trump’s name appears multiple times in documents reviewed by the Justice Department in its Epstein investigation. On Morning Joe, the panel discusses the Journal’s reporting,

A Republican Senator admitted that he aims to conceal files pertaining to disgraced New York financier Jeffrey Epstein in order to cover up for President Donald Trump.

House Republicans are pointing fingers at the Trump administration, Democrats and each other over the continued fallout from Jeffrey Epstein's case.

House lawmakers ran to catch flights Wednesday afternoon -- leaving for their August recess a day early -- without taking a substantive vote on releasing the Epstein files. On their way out the door, some Republicans acknowledged they're bracing for serious Epstein-related questions from the MAGA base when they get home.