President Donald Trump said he asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to seek the release grand jury testimony related to the criminal prosecution of notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Trump has tried, without success so far,

The president’s directive follows weeks of uproar surrounding the handling of the so-called Epstein files and after Trump announced his plans to sue the Wall Street Journal after the paper published a bombshell report detailing a bawdy birthday card Trump allegedly gave to Jeffrey Epstein.

The president said a Wall Street Journal report alleging that a racy letter sent to Epstein on his 50th Birthday in 2003 bore his name and signature was “FAKE NEWS.”