Trump's comments from a largely overlooked exchange last summer about public access to the so-called Epstein files are suddenly relevant anew.

This is everything we know so far about Donald Trump and the 'Epstein files,' after new comments made by the US president this week

Among the comments President Donald Trump made when speaking from the U.K. on Monday was that it he had turned down the "privilege" of going to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's private island — believed to be a center for his abuse of underage girls.

Donald Trump was asked yet again about his relationship to deceased sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein. His answer made everything worse.

President Donald Trump comments on Jeffrey Epstein, stating, ‘I never went to the island. I never had the privilege of going to his island"

Stephen Colbert mocks Trump’s bizarre Epstein comments - US president said he ‘never had the privilege’ of going to the convicted paedophile’s island

Previous reports suggest Trump and Epstein had a falling out when Trump outbid Epstein for a property in Palm Beach.