The revelation that Attorney General Pam Bondi told President Donald Trump that his name was in the Jeffrey Epstein files has focused fresh attention on the president’s relationship with the wealthy financier.

While the president's ties to Jeffrey Epstein have been public knowledge for years, Hill Republicans have been forced to confront those connections like never before.

Here’s how Donald Trump’s position on Jeffrey Epstein has changed over the year, and how the fallout over the Epstein files poses a particular challenge for him.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met with Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell today as the Trump administration and Republican lawmakers deal with public backlash over the administration’s handling of the so-called Epstein files.

Seth Meyers on Wednesday skewered President Donald Trump for attempting to distract the public from his ties to Jeffrey Epstein with a litany of diversions before Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) shut down the House to block a bipartisan effort to get some answers.

Trump is among other prominent figures named in the previously unsealed documents. He was mentioned in a 2016 deposition from Johanna Sjoberg, one of Epstein’s victims, who said the disgraced financier’s plane made an impromptu stop in Atlantic City in the 2000s. Sjoberg said “no” when asked if she’d given Trump a massage.

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The news Wednesday that Attorney General Pam Bondi told President Donald Trump back in May that his name appeared in the Jeffrey Epstein files isn’t that surprising, in context.