The White House on Thursday attempted to close the door on President Donald Trump’s role in the Jeffrey Epstein saga, rejecting calls from within his own political base for a special prosecutor and casting his recent comments about the “Epstein Hoax” as a swipe at Democrats,

President Donald Trump filed a defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal’s parent company, accusing the newspaper of libeling him after the outlet published an article that said the presiden...

Trump immediately and strenuously denied the report, and yesterday followed through on his threat to sue the Journal.