Critics have said the meetings with Blanche, Trump’s former personal defense lawyer, were part of a White House effort to quell the backlash over the administration’s handling of thousands of Epstein...

The original photo was Epstein holding his girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, but the image was reversed and Trump's head was digitally added to replace Maxwell's.

That Mr. Blanche himself conducted such interviews, Mr. Durbin wrote, led him and Mr. Whitehouse to believe that the meetings were “another tactic to distract from DOJ’s failure to fulfill Attorney G...