His comments come after Trump's top envoy, Steve Witkoff, said yesterday that he was pulling the U.S. team of negotiators out of Doha, Qatar, after Hamas' latest response in the talks, saying it "clearly shows a lack of desire to reach a ceasefire in Gaza."

The Wall Street Journal reported that Donald Trump features in the so-called Epstein files, which the White House denied.

Last year, a federal appeals court upheld Maxwell’s sentence. In April, she asked the Supreme Court to take up her case. Just last week, as the maelstrom swirled around the case, the DOJ asked the justices not to review her convictions.

As public pressure intensifies for the White House to release long-sealed files connected to Jeffrey Epstein, attention has turned once again to his longtime associate, Ghislaine Maxwell.

Trump says DOJ-Maxwell meeting "sounds appropriate," but deflects Epstein questions with Obama-era conspiracy claims. This live blog has been closed.

The latest effort by Trump subordinates is intended to quell a political crisis precipitated by the department’s announcement that it would not release more files related to the Epstein investigation.

The government’s handling of the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein has roiled the president’s closed supporters for weeks.