House Speaker Mike Johnson dropped some jaws to the floor by suggesting Donald Trump is currently netting ratings that’d make a North Korean despot blush. “The president is the most maligned and attacked political figure in the history of American politics,

The White House is trying to calm a furor following a Wall Street Journal report that said Trump wrote a bawdy birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein.

Donald Trump directed Pam Bondi, the attorney-general, to request the release of grand-jury testimony about Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted child molester. The instruction came after the Wall Street Journal published details about a risqué birthday letter Mr Trump allegedly wrote to Epstein in 2003.

President Donald Trump is facing one of his biggest political tests of the past decade, after spending years hinting at Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theories.

Steve Bannon joined a growing chorus of MAGA influencers coalescing behind President Donald Trump in the wake of the Wall Street Journal report about a ribald birthday letter bearing Trump’s name that was sent to Jeffrey Epstein,

The $10bn lawsuit is over a story claiming the president wrote a "bawdy" personal note to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003.