“They’re trying to get people to talk about something that’s totally irrelevant to the success that we’ve had as a nation since I’ve been president,” Trump said last week in the Oval Office.

The US president has denied the existence of the sexually suggestive note, alluding to the pair’s ‘wonderful secret’.

President Donald Trump sued The Wall Street Journal for defamation over its report revealing the existence of the letter to Jeffrey Epstein.