President Donald Trump suggested focusing on former President Bill Clinton and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers regarding the Jeffrey Epstein case amid controversy over sealed investigation materials.

His comments come after Trump's top envoy, Steve Witkoff, said yesterday that he was pulling the U.S. team of negotiators out of Doha, Qatar, after Hamas' latest response in the talks, saying it "clearly shows a lack of desire to reach a ceasefire in Gaza."

Trump was asked by ABC News Friday morning about the possibility of granting clemency for convicted Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who is being interviewed by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. The president initially dodged the question.

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Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein partied together for more than a decade. One became president, the other died in jail.

President Trump has come under fire from a section of his MAGA base over his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case.

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Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence at a federal prison in Tallahassee, Florida. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met with her on Thursday in an attempt to quell a firestorm over the Trump administration’s backtracking on promises to release additional records from the Epstein investigation.

New polling reveals that the fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal continues to cast a shadow over Donald Trump and his administration.

After declaring that “people should really focus on how well the country is doing” rather than his links to the deceased child sex trafficker, Trump floated the idea of cash relief while talking up his latest trade deals on Friday.