Trump Wants Justice Department To Investigate Epstein’s Ties To Clinton And Others

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President Donald Trump said he would ask Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to Bill Clinton, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and more— as newly-released files draw even more scrutiny on the president’s relationship with the sex offender.

Trump said Friday on Truth Social he would ask the Justice Department and FBI to investigate Epstein’s “involvement and relationship” with the three men “and many other people and institutions to determine what was going on with them,” despite repeatedly downplaying the ongoing interest in Epstein as a “hoax.”

The statement comes days after House Democrats released a new trove of emails from Epstein in which he frequently discussed Trump.

The president has repeatedly dismissed the latest revelations linking him to Epstein—and the continued interest in him, generally—refusing for days to answer reporters’ questions about the emails, in which Epstein alleged Trump spent “hours” with victim Virginia Giuffre and “knew about the girls.”

Trump repeated his claims Friday that Democrats released the emails to distract from the government shutdown and said Epstein “was a Democrat, and he is the Democrat’s problem, not the Republican’s problem!”