U.S. president also wants government investigations of Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, and J.P. Morgan Chase
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U.S. President Donald Trump is calling for an investigation into former Democratic President Bill Clinton for possible criminal links to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
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Trump broke his silence Friday by demanding the probe, which also includes former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, after thousands of emails held by Epstein’s estate and not in possession of the U.S. government were handed over to the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday.
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“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,” Trump said on his Truth Social platform.
Epstein was a former client of JP Morgan Chase, which agreed to pay $290 million in 2023 to settle a class action lawsuit brought by his victims for the abuse they endured.
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Trump has called efforts to release all documents relating to Epstein a “hoax” by the Democratic Party, and he accuses them of trying to deflect from the “disastrous” government shutdown that saw federal employees either not paid for their essential work or furloughed from their jobs for a record 43 days.
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“Records show that these men, and many others, spent large portions of their life with Epstein, and on his ‘Island,’” Trump said.
While Clinton was president, Epstein visited the White House on several occasions. He also flew on the late financier’s private plane, but he hasn’t been accused of any crime.
The recent email dump revealed Epstein said Clinton had “never ever” been to his private island in the Caribbean.
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Trump has not been accused of any wrongdoing despite his close ties to Epstein.
However, emails sent by Epstein and his friends say Trump “knew about the girls” and he had spent “hours” with the late Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s victims.
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“I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump,” one Epstein email to Ghislaine Maxwell in April 2011 said. “(Victim) spent hours at my house with him, he has never once been mentioned.”
Maxwell, the disgraced socialite who was sentenced to 20 years for conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse children, wrote back: “I have been thinking about that …”
The White House noted that Giuffre, who died by suicide in April, said Trump “couldn’t have been friendlier,” adding the release of Epstein’s emails was a “manufactured hoax.”
The thousands of Epstein documents released this week also revealed many relationships with high-profile people, including business executives, reporters, academics and political operatives.
Authorities ruled Epstein took his life inside a New York City prison in August 2019 while awaiting federal sex trafficking charges. In 2008, he pleaded guilty in Florida to a state charge of procuring for prostitution a girl below age 18.
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