The judge argued that she could not release the documents because they had not been requested for use in a judicial proceeding.

A signed copy of one of his own books to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein is among a trove of new headaches for Donald Trump. The president gifted Epstein the copy of Trump: The Art of the Comeback with the personalized inscription,

Jen Psaki relays breaking news from the Wall Street Journal that Attorney General Pam Bondi told Donald Trump in May that that his name is in the Epstein files, suggesting the reason the Trump administration has been so energized to prevent the release of material related to the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein.