Ted Lieu, a Democratic congressman from California, scolded the media last year for not covering Donald Trump's connections to Jeffrey Epstein in the wake of the release of the 2006 secret grand jury documents that came as part of a lawsuit by The Palm Beach Post.

Conservative commentators were spotted at the White House early Thursday afternoon carrying binders labeled “The Epstein Files: Phase 1,” multiple outlets report, though nothing has been directly released from the DOJ to the public yet and it’s unclear what documents the binder contains.