The Wall Street Journal engaged in "fake and defamatory conduct," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt alleged.

Washington — House Speaker Mike Johnson said there will not be a vote before Congress' August recess on a resolution that calls on the Trump administration to release more files related to child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Moments after Karoline Leavitt banned the Wall Street Journal from the travel press pool over its Trump-Epstein blockbuster, which prompted the president to sue Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch, Martha MacCallum decided to question Leavitt about Hunter Biden’s profane podcast appearance.

House Republican leaders are pushing a vote on whether to compel the Trump administration to release the Jeffrey Epstein files until after the August recess — at the earliest, Politico reported Monday.

He—the president, their leader, the martyr who had endured scandals and prosecution and an assassin’s bullet on their behalf—had repeatedly told them it was time to move on, and that alone should suffice. Why, he groused, would the White House add fuel to the fire, would it play into the media’s narrative?

Intense clashing over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files has influenced betting markets about who could leave the Trump administration in 2025.

When the White House took control of the so-called “press pool” that accompanies the president, journalists worried that the Trump administration would use that power to punish news outlets.