'Rather abrupt!' Trump flagged over timing of eye-opening Epstein U-Turn

The new revelation from the Wall Street Journal that President Donald Trump was informed by Attorney General Pam Bondi in May that his name was in the files on the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case lines up suspiciously with an "abrupt shift" in the way the administration started messaging about the issue, Aaron Blake wrote for CNN on Thursday.

"That doesn’t mean there’s been a cover-up of any actual Epstein-related misconduct by Trump; there remains no real evidence of that. But the...