P resident Donald Trump has filed a libel lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch and others over the Thursday report about Trump's alleged birthday message sent to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003. Trump has denied to the Wall Street Journal that he wrote the letter. ABC News has not been able to confirm the existence of the letter.

The Trump administration’s chaotic handling of the so-called Jeffrey Epstein files continued Friday as the Justice Department asked a federal judge to make public years-old grand jury testimony made behind closed doors against the convicted sex offender.

The Justice Department on Friday formally asked a federal judge to unseal transcripts from grand jury proceedings involving convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

After a months-long review of evidence in the government’s possession, the Justice Department determined that no “further disclosure would be appropriate or warranted.”

It’s unclear if Comey’s firing is at all tied to the ongoing controversy over the Epstein files, and it comes as numerous DOJ staff have separately been fired or left the agency voluntarily, with Reuters reporting two-thirds of the staff tasked with defending the administration’s policies have quit.

Sen. Ron Wyden has spent the past three years investigating the financial machinery behind Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation.

Some of Trump's most prominent supporters had promoted the idea of Trump naming a special counsel to review the case.

Trump’s problem is the nothing-to-see-here approach doesn’t work for those who’ve learned from him they must not give up until the government’s secrets are exposed.