As Trump faces pressure to release more information regarding Epstein, reports are coming out that the two men knew each other well.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter on Monday called for the Trump administration to release the “Epstein files.” Bernice King, the same day the administration released records on the FBI’s surveillance of her father, requested more transparency on an issue that the president has been trying leave behind him: his ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Overshadowed is Congress' willingness to cede a constitutional power to the White House. Instead, the case of a disgraced and dead financier looms.

A sudden resurgence of interest in the late convicted sex offender, and unanswered questions about his crimes, has been measurable this month in book sales, Netflix streams and YouTube searches.

The two socialized together frequently in New York City and Palm Beach from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. In 2002, Trump praised Epstein to a reporter as a “terrific guy” — and curiously added that he “likes beautiful women” on “the younger side.”

Trump and Epstein met around the time Trump bought Mar-a-Lago in 1985, when Epstein was also living in Palm Beach, according to Trump, who told New York magazine in 2002 he had known Epstein for “15 years,

Jeffrey Epstein accuser Maria Farmer talks to CNN’s Erin Burnett about an interaction she had with former President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein when she was 25. The White House denies that President Trump visited Jeffrey Epstein’s office.

The Republican speaker of the House had said last week that the government should release “everything” in the Jeffrey Epstein files, in a rare break with the president that turned out to be short-lived.