Ankush Khardori is a senior writer for POLITICO Magazine and a former federal prosecutor at the Department of Justice. His column, Rules of Law, offers an unvarnished look at national legal affairs and the political dimensions of the law at a moment when the two are inextricably linked.

The president gets low marks for his handling of the scandal. But polls suggest other issues are driving the popularity dip.

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

President Donald Trump faces ongoing questions about the Jeffrey Epstein case, overshadowing his administration's achievements.

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

The president deflected when asked about the Epstein case, griping that reporters never focus on the other men who associated with the convicted sex offender

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who has been a target of recent attacks from Trump, also swooped in: “The president won’t rule out a pardon for a convicted child sex trafficker and Epstein’s co-conspirator. Says he is allowed to do it. Nothing suspicious about that...”

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

The comment came after Trump was asked if he was considering pardoning the associate of Jeffrey Epstein, who was convicted sex trafficking.

President Donald Trump denied that he was briefed on his name appearing in the case files of Jeffrey Epstein, seeming contradicting a recent report in The Wall Street Journal that he was. After Air Force One landed in Scotland on Friday,

New reporting from The Wall Street Journal offers fresh details about the book Ghislaine Maxwell compiled for Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003, which contained a letter signed by Donald Trump,