A Wall Street Journal report late Thursday added new scrutiny to President Donald Trump’s relationship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Last week, the Justice Department and the FBI abruptly walked back the notion that there's an Epstein client list of elites who participated in the wealthy New York financier’s trafficking of underage girls.

Trump is expected to make a controversial announcement or policy decision shortly in order to offset the unwanted attention on Jeffrey Epstein

President Donald Trump’s advisers have been frantically at work trying to diffuse the carnage that has followed the latest Justice Department (DOJ) and FBI findings on the Jeffrey Epstein case. MAGA has been in a tailspin after the DOJ and FBI found that no “client list” of powerful associates exists for the disgraced financier and that he died by suicide,

Sam Nunberg, a former Trump aide, said that Trump barred Epstein from Mar-a-Lago after Epstein had recruited a young woman who worked at the Palm Beach resort to give him massages.

Jeffrey Epstein (left) and real estate developer Donald Trump as they pose together at the Mar-a-Lago estate, Palm Beach, Florida, 1997. Author Michael Wolf discussed Trump's and Epstein's ...

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— Trump and Epstein were seen at various social events together and photographed at Mar-a-Lago in 1992, 1997, and 2000. They were also pictured together at a Victoria’s Secret party in 1997.

President Trump is seeking an unprecedented amount of damages in his lawsuit challenging a Wall Street Journal report about his Jeffrey Epstein.