Trump was told his name appeared repeatedly in federal files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and sought to limit public access to those records, according to government sources and legal filings.
New information drawn from direct reporting, court documents, government press releases and documented lawsuits shows that senior Justice Department officials briefed President Trump in May 2025 on the presence of his name in the so-called 'Epstein files', a large corpus of investigative records compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Justice (DOJ).
