The Republican leadership in the House of Representatives on Wednesday sent lawmakers home early for a six-week summer break to avoid being forced into awkward votes on the probe into the late, politically connected sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The White House pulled out all the stops Wednesday to promote claims that Barack Obama headed a “treasonous conspiracy” against Donald Trump, seeking to redirect public attention from uproar over its handling of the Jeffrey Epstein affair.

Donald Trump’s preoccupation with Barack Obama — and specifically his role in probing Russia’s role in the 2016 election — reemerged in dramatic fashion.

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The attorney general reportedly told President Donald Trump in the spring he was named multiple times in the government's files on Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump indicated the decision over whether to investigate Obama was in the hands of Attorney General Pam Bondi. The House begins a five-week summer recess today, one day early, to "avoid a political fight" over the Epstein files, Reuters said.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi told President Donald Trump in May that his name appeared in investigative files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

A group of Republicans joined Democrats today in a House Oversight subcommittee to vote to subpoena the Justice Department for the Jeffrey Epstein files.

The late-night host said the president was distracting from the criticism over his administration's handling of the Epstein files.

In a Fox News segment, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard accused former President Barack Obama of the very thing she has recently come under fire for. Gabbard has continued on her warpath against Obama as the Trump administration faces attacks from all sides after failing to release classified files related to Jeffrey Epstein.

OBAMA'S REBUKE: Former President Barack Obama’s office issued a rebuke of Trump yesterday over his accusation that his predecessor committed “treason” and rigged the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections.