The case of Jeffrey Epstein, sex offender and former friend of the president, has blown up into a major headache for the White House.

“The fact is that the president kicked him out of his club for being a creep,” White House communications director Steven Cheung told the New York Times, seeking to rebut the tale of an Epstein accuser who said she had an alarming interaction with Trump in the 1990s. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt also used the same line.