Trump knew Epstein socially in the 1990s and early 2000s. During the 2021 trial of Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, the financier's longtime pilot, Lawrence Visoski, testified that Trump flew on Epstein's private plane multiple times. Trump has denied being on the plane.

Several Trump backers have called for more transparency after Pam Bondi's Justice Department announced that no more files would be released.

Donald Trump has radically escalated his condemnation of his own supporters on social media in the midst of an unprecedented moment of division within the MAGA coalition about the Trump administration's conflicting reports about the existence of Jeffrey Epstein's client list and its willingness to release its contents.