The president’s directive follows weeks of uproar surrounding the handling of the so-called Epstein files and after Trump announced his plans to sue the Wall Street Journal after the paper published a bombshell report detailing a bawdy birthday card Trump allegedly gave to Jeffrey Epstein.

Donald Trump's only way out of the unending pressures to release the files on Jeffrey Epstein is to fire Pam Bondi, according to a political and legal analyst.

Bipartisan pressure is mounting over the limited scope of the Justice Department's disclosures regarding Epstein.