US Justice Department Informed Donald Trump His Name Is In Epstein Files: Report

Last Updated:July 24, 2025, 07:49 IST

Donald Trump was reportedly briefed in May that his name appeared several times in Jeffrey Epstein case files, though officials said he wasn’t the focus.

File photos of Donald Trump/Jeffrey Epstein (AP)

US President Donald Trump, in May this year, was informed that his name appeared multiple times in the files of the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking investigation, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The information to Trump was passed on by Attorney General Pam Bondi and her deputy, during a meeting at the White House, who told the President that many other high-profile figures were also named, according to the report.

When officials of the Justice Department reviewed the files, they found that Donald Trump’s name appeared multiple times. However, they termed it a routine briefing and said Trump’s appearance in the documents wasn’t the focus, the report quoted senior administration officials as saying.

In the latest, Bondi is now facing Democratic calls to testify before Congress following the WSJ report.

Trump’s ties to Epstein are well-established, and his name is already known to have been included in records related to the wealthy financier, who killed himself in jail in 2019 as he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges.

Senator Adam Schiff, a California Democrat, responded to the report by calling on Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee, according to the Associated Press.

“We need to bring Bondi and Patel into the Judiciary Committee to testify about this now," Schiff said in a video posted on X.

Over the years, thousands of pages of records have been released through lawsuits, Epstein’s criminal dockets, public disclosures and Freedom of Information Act requests.

They include a 2016 deposition in which an accuser recounted she spent several hours with Epstein at Trump’s Atlantic City casino, but didn’t say if she met Trump and did not accuse him of any wrongdoing.

Trump has also said he once thought Epstein was a “terrific guy" but they later had a falling-out.

White House spokesman Steven Cheung on Wednesday said the reports were “nothing more than a continuation of the fake news stories concocted by the Democrats and the liberal media."

Vani Mehrotra

Vani Mehrotra is the Deputy News Editor at News18.com. She has nearly 10 years of experience in both national and international news and has previously worked on multiple desks.

Vani Mehrotra is the Deputy News Editor at News18.com. She has nearly 10 years of experience in both national and international news and has previously worked on multiple desks.

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