The attorney general plans to ask a court to release the papers. But even if the request succeeds, it would fall far short of critics’ demands to release all investigative materials.

A Wall Street Journal report late Thursday added new scrutiny to President Donald Trump’s relationship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

President Donald Trump on Friday sued the Wall Street Journal’s parent firms Dow Jones and News Corp, its owner Rupert Murdoch, and two reporters over an article alleging that he sent a “bawdy” birthday letter in 2003 to Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump wrote on Truth Social that he had filed a "powerhouse" lawsuit over the Wall Street Journal's Jeffrey Eps