President Donald Trump speaks before signing the funding bill to reopen the government, in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
President Donald Trump on Friday said he will ask the US Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship with former President Bill Clinton and other prominent Democrats and financial institutions.
“Now that the Democrats are using the Epstein Hoax, involving Democrats, not Republicans, to try and deflect from their disastrous SHUTDOWN, and all of their other failures, I will be asking A.G. Pam Bondi, and the Department of Justice, together with our great patriots at the FBI, to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s involvement and relationship with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, J.P. Morgan, Chase, and many other people and institutions, to determine what was going on with them, and him,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
Trump’s announcement comes after the release of the Epstein documents by the House Oversight Committee, which has reignited the scrutiny of their relationship.
Trump who has denied any wrongdoings once again played down the revelations, calling it a Democrat hoax.
“This is another Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, with all arrows pointing to the Democrats. Records show that these men, and many others, spent large portions of their life with Epstein, and on his “Island.” Stay tuned,” Trump continued in his post.
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Trump and Epstein were friends during the 1990s and the 2000s, but Trump says he broke off ties before Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to charges of soliciting a minor for prostitution.
Trump has consistently denied knowing about the late financier’s abuse and sex trafficking of underage girls.
However, the documents released earlier this week, including his emails with Ghislaine Maxwell and a former New York Times journalist, suggested that Trump was aware of the sexual abuse of girls on Epstein’s private island.
No credible evidence has surfaced that Clinton, Summers, or Hoffman were involved in Epstein’s sex trafficking. All have previously denied wrongdoing and have expressed regret about their relationships with him.
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Clinton flew on Epstein’s private jet several times before the financier’s 2008 conviction, while Summers accepted philanthropic gifts from Epstein while serving as president of Harvard University. Hoffman has acknowledged meeting with Epstein multiple times in professional situations.
JPMorgan paid $290 million in 2023 to some of Epstein’s victims to settle accusations that it had turned a blind eye to his sex trafficking. The deal followed embarrassing disclosures that JPMorgan ignored internal warnings and overlooked red flags about Epstein, who was a client of the bank between 1998 and 2013. The bank did not admit wrongdoing in the settlement.
In an email that was part of the more than 20,000 documents made public earlier this week, Epstein said that Clinton has never been to his private island.
Even as Trump tries to deflect the debate around Epstein documents, many, including some of his most ardent supporters, are becoming skeptical.
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The Republican-controlled House of Representatives is expected to vote next week on legislation that would force the Justice Department to release all of the material it holds on Epstein, who was facing federal charges of sex trafficking minors at the time of his suicide. The measure is expected to pass, even after House Speaker Mike Johnson repeatedly maneuvered to try to block the vote. It would also require the Senate to pass similar legislation and Trump’s approval to compel the Justice Department to act.
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