President Donald Trump's name was mentioned nine times across the hundreds of pages made public earlier this year in the “ phase one " release of the declassified Epstein files.

President Donald Trump is denying a report in the Wall Street Journal that claims he wrote a letter to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday.

Perpetuating unfounded theories about Epstein serves neither of those ends.

It’s unclear if Comey’s firing is at all tied to the ongoing controversy over the Epstein files, and it comes as numerous DOJ staff have separately been fired or left the agency voluntarily, with Reuters reporting two-thirds of the staff tasked with defending the administration’s policies have quit.

Maurene Comey, daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, was abruptly fired by Trump’s DOJ from her role as a federal prosecutor in Manhattan.

“If a career prosecutor can be fired without reason, fear may seep into the decision of those who remain,” Comey said in her email, a copy of which was obtained by ABC News.