Attorney General Pam Bondi informed President Trump in the spring that his name appeared in files related to the investigation of the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The disclosure came during a meeting about the Justice Department’s re-examination of unreleased documents connected to the case. But a person close to the president said, on the condition of anonymity, that the White House was not concerned because Trump, a onetime friend of Epstein, had already appeared in documents related to the investigation.

“Nothing in the files warranted further investigation or prosecution,” Bondi and her deputy wrote in a statement.

The Trump administration has been trying for weeks to quiet anger about the administration’s handling of the Epstein case. Recent polling suggests that many Republicans have begun to break with Trump in large numbers over the issue.

The president has pushed for courts to release grand jury transcripts from the Epstein investigation. But a federal judge in Florida said today that she had denied the government’s request.

Trump has argued that critics should instead pay attention to the actions of his Democratic predecessors. His director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, accused Barack Obama of leading a “treasonous conspiracy” against Trump. She cited a newly released document that provided interesting new details about how Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election was assessed but no evidence of criminal behavior.