“The fact is that the president kicked him out of his club for being a creep,” White House communications director Steven Cheung told the New York Times, seeking to rebut the tale of an Epstein accuser who said she had an alarming interaction with Trump in the 1990s. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt also used the same line.

The White House responded after the Wall Street Journal reported that Pam Bondi told Trump his name was in the Epstein files.