The Department of Justice lashed out in a profane statement Wednesday afternoon, denying a bombshell Wall Street Journal report that it had told President Donald Trump in May his name appeared multiple times in the Jeffrey Epstein files.
The Journal reported that Attorney General Pam Bondi informed Trump in May that his name appeared in the DOJ's files related to Epstein, the financier and convicted sex offender. That information was conveyed in a White House meeting and included the detail that Trump’s name was among "many other high-profile figures" mentioned in the extensive Epstein investigation records.
Fiery White House spokesperson Steven Cheung told media outlets in a statement, "This is nothing more than a continuation of the fake news stories concocted by the Democrats and the liberal media."
The Justice Department later weighed in as well to dispute the report.
"This is a collection of falsehoods and innuendo designed to push a bulls--- narrative and drive clicks," spokesperson Gates McGavick wrote on X.