Remarks made by President Donald Trump on Monday when asked about the latest release of Jeffrey Epstein files raised eyebrows on MS NOW Tuesday.

On “Morning Joe,” the co-hosts ran a clip of the president, flanked by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, stating, “They’re asking me questions about Jeffrey Epstein. I thought that was finished.”

He then complained that the releases should stop because “a lot of people are very angry that pictures are being released of other people that really had nothing to do with Epstein. But they’re in a picture with him because he was at a party and you ruin a reputation of somebody.”

That led “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough to point out that, if the president is as innocent as he claims to be, who in the upcoming releases is he worried about?

“I just want to underline again that there has been reporting from this network and others that there's nothing in the files that prove Donald Trump broke the law. Nothing. So the question is, why does Donald Trump, why does the White House continue to drag its feet? Why does the administration continue to drag its feet and keep this story alive?” he asked.

“Why don't they just release all of this, get it behind them?” he added. “Again, if Donald Trump is not in these files in a way that causes him any legal problems — again, that's been all of our reporting — then who is he trying to protect? Because he doesn't care about friends. Who is he trying to protect by continuing to drag his feet on releasing these files?”

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Prosecutors considered placing sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a cell with a Donald Trump superfan who was convicted of mailing pipe bombs to the president's enemies, according to newly released documents.

The Justice Department posted online thousands more files Monday evening related to the government’s case against Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s accomplice in sex trafficking. The Washington Post managed to download the full set before they were taken down without explanation.

"The files include correspondence among prison officials about Epstein’s psychological assessments, with discussions about holding him in a special housing units about two weeks before he died," the Post reported.

Epstein died in federal custody in August 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, and his death was ruled a suicide.

“We have supporting memorandums from the responding officers who indicated they observed inmate Epstein with a makeshift noose around his neck,” stated an internal email from prosecutors.

The documents also show that Epstein was nearly placed in the same cell as an infamous MAGA fanatic, but little further explanation has been disclosed about that matter.

"At one point, the documents indicate, prison officials planned to house Epstein in a cell with Cesar Sayoc, a fanatical supporter of Trump’s who in 2019 was sentenced to 20 years in prison after he mailed explosive devices to prominent Democrats and media figures," the Post reported. "The Federal Bureau of Prisons did not respond to requests for comment about Epstein’s incarceration."

Sayoc told a federal judge after his arrest that attending a rally for Trump “became like a new found drug" during a particularly dark time in his life.

“By 2018, he was living alone in a decrepit and cramped van that had been his home for more than a decade," Sayoc's lawyers wrote. "A typical day saw Mr. Sayoc waking up in his van, showering at the gym, and cooking crockpot meals while inside the DJ booth of a strip club before heading off to his second job delivering pizza. As he grew older and more isolated, excessive steroid use increased his feelings of anxiety and paranoia.”"

Defense lawyers told the court that 'in this darkness, Mr. Sayoc found light in Donald J. Trump."

President Donald Trump flew on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's plane at least eight times, according to a large tranche of documents briefly put into public view by the Department of Justice.

The Justice Department released thousands of files Monday, three days after publicizing an initial batch in partial compliance with a law passed last month by Congress,. They appear to have been removed from the agency's website several hours later – but the Washington Post downloaded the full set before they were taken down.

"The documents show that a subpoena was sent to Mar-a-Lago in 2021 for records that pertained to the government’s case against Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s accomplice in sex trafficking," the Post reported. "They include notes from an assistant U.S. attorney in New York about the number of times Trump flew on Epstein’s plane, including one flight that included just Trump, Epstein and a 20-year-old woman, according to the notes."

"The newly released documents also include several tips that were collected by the FBI about Trump’s involvement with Epstein and parties at their properties in the early 2000s," the report added. "The documents do not show whether any follow-up investigations took place or whether any of the tips were corroborated."

Flight records show Trump “traveled on Epstein’s private jet many more times than previously has been reported (or that we were aware),” wrote an assistant U.S. attorney from the Southern District of New York in an email dated Jan. 8, 2020, after a review of flight records as part of the government case against Maxwell, who was convicted in 2021 of sex trafficking.

“For your situational awareness, wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein’s private jet many more times than previously has been reported (or that we were aware), including during the period we would expect to charge in a Maxwell case,” the email states.

Maxwell was present on at least four of those flights, according to the prosecutor, and in some cases those flights included passengers who could be called as possible witnesses in a case against Maxwell.

“We’ve just finished reviewing the full records (more than 100 pages of very small script) and didn’t want any of this to be a surprise down the road,” the prosecutor wrote.