President Trump's call last week for the Justice Department and the FBI to "investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s involvement and relationship with Bill Clinton" and other high-profile Democrats, posted on Trump's social media platform, has again bumped that relationship into the headlines.

White House officials are concerned that even with Congress voting to release the entirety of the Epstein files, the controversy around the late convicted sex offender will continue to swirl.

Two days after Trump abruptly dropped his longstanding opposition to the measure, the vote is all but certain to succeed, sending a resolution requiring the release of all unclassified materials on Ep...