Trump's followers on Truth Social were not having it and accused the president of "gaslighting" and insisted his argument is "not holding water."

Dan Bongino clashed with Attorney General Pam Bondi and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles in a heated meeting about the Epstein memo that found no client list existed.

Alan Dershowitz, the president's former lawyer claimed he knew the names of individuals associated with the disgraced financier.

The White House’s Jeffrey Epstein problem is not going away. CNN data analyst Harry Enten said Friday that the name “Epstein” has been Googled 1.4 times as much as “tariffs” since Monday—which he said is “huge news”—and 1,

Historian Richard Hofstadter was a pioneer observer of what he called “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” which he described in a 1964 Harper’s Magazine analysis of the use of loose facts and pseudo-facts to build an alternative reality for political ends.

"He said, and I agree, there are a lot of names associated with Epstein that had nothing to do with Epstein's conduct," O'Reilly said.

Attorney Spencer Kuvin, who represents one of Epstein’s victims, shared: "We certainly knew that Mr. Trump was a close friend of Mr. Epstein during those exact years that Mr. Epstein was molesting these young girls. "These are two gentlemen that definitely ran in the same circles."