White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has responded to the claim made by Elon Musk that President Trump’s name is on the Epstein list and that’s why it hasn’t been released.

In short, Leavitt said: “This is an unfortunate episode from Elon, who is unhappy with the One Big Beautiful Bill because it does not include the policies he wanted. The President is focused on passing this historic piece of legislation and making our country great again.”

Here’s more from CNN:

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt described Elon Musk’s claim that President Donald Trump is “in the Epstein files” an “unfortunate episode” in a new statement tonight.

“This is an unfortunate episode from Elon, who is unhappy with the One Big Beautiful Bill because it does not include the policies he wanted. The President is focused on passing this historic piece of legislation and making our country great again,” Leavitt told CNN in a statement.

Musk has not detailed how he would have gained access to unreleased files and has not provided any evidence of where his information was coming from.

In response to the Musk’s claims, a source familiar pointed to the president’s previous comments that he banned disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein from his Mar-a-Lago estate.

The source also pointed to the initial tranche of files that Attorney General Pam Bondi released in February that included the president’s name in Epstein’s flight logs. Names being mentioned in the records are not necessarily a claim of wrongdoing.

Trump’s proximity to Epstein in the past is not exactly news; he’s been photographed with Epstein. But Musk’s accusation feeds into concern in some right-wing circles about the lack of transparency about Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges.