Former President Bill Clinton is claiming he&#8217;s being scapegoated in the wake of the latest Epstein file dump that featured jarring new photos of Clinton with Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted pedophile.
Clinton appears in a number of the images released by the Department of Justice in accordance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which was signed into law by President Donald Trump last month.
Some of the photos show Clinton swimming in a pool with convicted Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell and in a hot tub with at least one unidentified female whose face has been redacted, as reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doj-drops-long-awaited-trove-of-epstein-files-that-includes-shocking-bill-clinton-pics?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=4&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=DOJ+Drops+Long-Awaited+Trove+Of+Epstein+Files+That+Includes+Shocking+Bill+Clinton+Pics">The Daily Wire</a>. Notably, according to the DOJ, the only faces that would be redacted would be those of minors, alleged victims, and government officials.
Clinton chief of staff Angel Ureña responded in a statement posted to X on Friday evening, saying Clinton cut ties with Epstein after his &#8220;crimes came to light&#8221; and is being scapegoated by the Trump administration.
&#8220;There are two types of people here. The first group knew nothing and cut Epstein off before his crimes came to light,&#8221; Ureña said. &#8220;The second group continued relationships with him after. We&#8217;re in the first. No amount of stalling by people in the second group will change that.&#8221;
&#8220;Everyone, especially MAGA, expects answers, not scapegoats,&#8221; he added.
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&#8220;The White House hasn&#8217;t been hiding these files for months only to dump them late on a Friday to protect Bill Clinton,&#8221; the statement from Ureña said. &#8220;This is about shielding themselves from what comes next, or from what they&#8217;ll try and hide forever. So they can release as many grainy, 20-plus-year-old photos as they want, but this isn&#8217;t about Bill Clinton. Never has, never will be.&#8221;
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— Angel Ureña (@angelurena) <a href="https://twitter.com/angelurena/status/2002159039183269993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Epstein visited the White House multiple times while Clinton was president, according to visitor logs. Additionally, after Clinton left office, Epstein assisted with some of the former president’s philanthropy and Clinton flew numerous times on Epstein’s private jet, the Associated Press <a href="https://www.wdtv.com/2025/12/20/photos-bill-clinton-included-newly-released-epstein-files/">reports</a>.
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Clinton was impeached in 1998 for lying under oath and obstructing justice when he denied engaging in a sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky, who was 22 years old when the affair started. The former president ultimately <a href="https://www.wdtv.com/2025/12/20/photos-bill-clinton-included-newly-released-epstein-files/">confessed</a> to a relationship with Lewinsky, while stressing that “even presidents have private lives.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doj-drops-long-awaited-trove-of-epstein-files-that-includes-shocking-bill-clinton-pics?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=4&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=DOJ+Drops+Long-Awaited+Trove+Of+Epstein+Files+That+Includes+Shocking+Bill+Clinton+Pics">DOJ Drops Long-Awaited Trove Of Epstein Files That Includes Shocking Bill Clinton Pics</a>

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Bill Clinton Responds To Shocking Photos In Epstein File Dump

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The Justice Department will need more time to release all of the remaining documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, missing Friday&#8217;s deadline that was stipulated in the law signed by President Donald Trump last month.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told &#8220;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6386705034112">Fox &amp; Friends</a>&#8221; on Friday that &#8220;several hundred thousand documents&#8221; would be made public on Friday, but &#8220;several hundred thousand&#8221; more documents won&#8217;t be released until the coming weeks.
&#8220;The most important thing that the attorney general has talked about, that [FBI Director Kash] Patel has talked about, is that we protect victims, and so what we are doing is we are looking at every single piece of paper that we are going to produce, making sure that every victim, their name, their identity, their story to the extent that it needs to be protected is completely protected.&#8221;
Blanche said that the dump on Friday will include numerous forms of documents, including photos. The Justice Department has been “working tirelessly” as it sifts through &#8220;every single document&#8221; to ensure that victims are protected before the information in the documents is made public. The bill passed by Congress and signed by Trump last month allows the Trump administration to withhold information on victims, including images of child sexual abuse.
Blanche added that President Trump &#8220;has said for years, that he wants full transparency, and he wants the Department of Justice to release everything that we can in respect to this investigation.&#8221; The deputy attorney general then blasted Democrats who are now focusing on the Epstein case after there was &#8220;radio silence&#8221; on the issue during the Biden administration.
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The Epstein investigation has plagued the Trump administration since the summer, when the Justice Department said that it found no evidence of an Epstein client list, and President Trump called the issue a &#8220;hoax.&#8221;
The Trump administration has also faced criticism from a few Republican lawmakers over its handling of the Epstein case. On Friday, Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie <a href="https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/2002028539600912595">shared</a> an image of the bill signed into law by Trump, highlighting the sentence that requires the release of the files within 30 days.
&#8220;Time’s up. Release the files,&#8221; Massie <a href="https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/2002051542787207310">said</a>.
The Justice Department did not say when on Friday it would release the hundreds of thousands of documents slated to become public. Neither did the Trump administration say when exactly the remaining files would be released.
So far, the Republican-led House Oversight Committee has released over 50,000 pages of documents and thousands of photos from the Epstein estate. While prominent politicians and powerful people, such as Trump and former President Bill Clinton, have been named in the files and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-release-batch-of-epstein-photos-featuring-trump-clinton-and-bill-gates">images</a> of them with Epstein have also been released. A photo obtained by The Daily Wire on Thursday shows Clinton and Epstein standing side-by-side.
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NEW: Photo obtained by <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDailyWire</a> shows Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein together. To my knowledge, this photo hasn’t been reported.
Massive trove of Epstein files are expected to be released tomorrow. <a href="https://t.co/OvFFbUQlXq">pic.twitter.com/OvFFbUQlXq</a>
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) <a href="https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/2001876204299960657?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Both Trump and Clinton were close to Epstein at one time, but neither of them has been implicated in any of Epstein&#8217;s crimes, nor have they been accused of wrongdoing by any of Epstein&#8217;s victims.

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The White House unveiled new plaques beneath the portraits of American presidents on its Presidential Walk of Fame on Wednesday, with some of the plaques including President Donald Trump&#8217;s jabs at former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama.
The Presidential Walk of Fame, which is located along the outside wall of West Wing, includes biographies for every U.S. president. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that Trump, &#8220;as a student of history,&#8221; wrote some of the descriptions himself, which is evident, as much of the sentence structure and grammar is reflective of the president&#8217;s unique style usually seen in his social media posts.
Instead of a photo of Biden for the former president&#8217;s portrait, the White House displays an image of an autopen. The text beneath the image reads, &#8220;Sleepy Joe Biden was, by far, the worst President in American History. Taking office as a result of the most corrupt Election ever seen in the United States, Biden oversaw a series of unprecedented disasters that brought our Nation to the brink of destruction. His policies caused the highest Inflation ever recorded, leading the U.S. Dollar to lose more than 20% of its value in 4 years. His Green New Scam surrendered American Energy Dominance and, by abolishing the Southern Border, Biden let 21 million people from all over the World pour into the United States, including from prisons, jails, mental institutions, and insane asylums. His Afghanistan Disaster was among the most humiliating events in American History, and resulted in the murder of 13 brave American Servicemembers, with many others gravely wounded. Seeing Biden’s devastating weakness, Russia invaded Ukraine, and Hamas terrorists launched the heinous October 7th attack on Israel.&#8221;
“Nicknamed both ‘Sleepy’ and ‘Crooked,’ Joe Biden was dominated by his Radical Left handlers,&#8221; the biography continues. &#8220;They and their allies in the Fake News Media attempted to cover up his severe mental decline, and his unprecedented use of the Autopen. Following his humiliating debate loss to President Trump in the big June 2024 debate, he was forced to withdraw from his campaign for re-election in disgrace. Biden weaponized Law Enforcement against his political opponent, while also prosecuting many other innocent people. He left office issuing blanket pardons to Radical Democrat criminals and thugs, as well as members of the Biden Crime Family — But despite it all, President Trump would get Re-Elected in a Landslide, and SAVE AMERICA!”
The plaques for President Obama refer to him as &#8220;one of the most divisive political figures in American history&#8221; and blast his handling of foreign policy and Obamacare.
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Obama&#8217;s plaques reads, “Barack Hussein Obama was the first Black President, a community organizer, one term Senator from Illinois, and one of the most divisive political figures in American History. As President, he passed the highly ineffective ‘Unaffordable’ Care Act, resulting in his party losing control of both Houses of Congress, and the Election of the largest House Republican majority since 1946. He presided over a stagnant Economy, approved the terrible Iran Nuclear Deal, and signed the one-sided Paris Climate Accords, both of which were later terminated by President Donald J. Trump.”
“Under Obama, the ISIS Caliphate spread across the Middle East, Libya collapsed into chaos, and Russia invaded and took Crimea, in Ukraine. He crippled small businesses with crushing regulation and environmental red tape, devastated American coal miners, and weaponized the IRS and Federal bureaucracies against his political opponents. Obama also spied on the 2016 Presidential Campaign of Donald J. Trump and presided over the creation of the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, the worst political scandal in American History. His handpicked successor, Hillary Rodham Clinton, would then lose the Presidency to Donald J. Trump.”
Trump&#8217;s plaque for President George W. Bush was far more friendly, but it still took a shot at Bush over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
&#8220;The son of former President George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush was the Governor of Texas when he won the hotly contested 2000 Election for President. His Administration was largely defined by the events of September 11, 2001 — The destruction of the World Trade Center, after which he led the war on terror. President Bush created the Department of Homeland Security, but started wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, both of which should not have happened. He also enacted Tax Cuts, expanded Medicare, signed the No Child Left Behind education bill, and launched the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Shortly before the end of his Administration, a Global Financial Crisis and major Recession took place.”
For President Bill Clinton, Trump&#8217;s plaque highlights the economic boom in the 1990s, but it also mentions the &#8220;scandals that plagued his presidency.&#8221; The end of Clinton&#8217;s biography states, &#8220;In 2016, President Clinton’s wife, Hillary Clinton, lost the Presidency to President Donald J. Trump!&#8221;
President Ronald Reagan&#8217;s plaque reads, &#8220;Ronald Reagan won the Cold War, and transformed American politics and the Conservative Movement. Before entering the White House, Reagan was a Hollywood actor, President of the Screen Actors Guild, Governor of California and, for decades, a leading voice in American Conservatism. As President, he enacted Tax Cuts, presided over a thriving Economy, and rebuilt the American Military. He survived being shot by an assassin, and confronted the Soviet Union with striking moral clarity, labeling it an &#8216;evil empire,&#8217; and putting unprecedented pressure on the Communist menace. Known as &#8216;The Great Communicator,&#8217; he was re-elected in a landslide in 1984, and left office with high approval, having restored National Confidence, Spirit, and Will. He was a fan of President Donald J. Trump long before President Trump’s Historic run for the White House. Likewise, President Trump was a fan of his!&#8221;
Of course, the most admiring biography was for Trump, with the president&#8217;s plaques reading, &#8220;On January 20, 2025, Donald J. Trump became the first President in 132 years to be sworn into office for a second non-consecutive term, following his Historic Victory in an Electoral College landslide, 312 to 226. Overcoming unprecedented Weaponization of Law Enforcement against him, as well as two assassination attempts, he won all battleground States by millions of votes, was the first Republican in decades to win the Popular Vote, BIG, and won 86% of Counties in America, 2,700 to 525. All 50 States shifted toward the Republican Party for the first time ever. At his Inauguration, President Trump announced the beginning of the &#8216;Golden Age of America,&#8217; and he delivered, ending eight wars in his first eight months, securing the Border, deporting gang members and migrant criminals, making our Cities safe, helping our Farmers, defeating Inflation, reducing Energy costs, and drawing Trillions of Dollars of new Investment, a RECORD, into the United States.&#8221;
&#8220;President Trump signed the Largest Tax Cuts in American History, the Largest Spending Cuts in American History, and implemented the Largest Ever Regulation Cuts,&#8221; a second plaque adds. &#8220;He obliterated Iran&#8217;s nuclear enrichment capacity with Operation Midnight Hammer, convinced NATO Countries to agree to increase contributions from 2% to 5% of GDP, reformed the Global Trading System, and made America Rich with Historic Tariffs, removed Critical Race Theory and transgender insanity from public schools, and banned men from women&#8217;s sports. He began the construction of the Golden Dome missile defense shield, renamed the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, and has built, right here at the White House, the magnificent Trump Presidential Ballroom after a 225 year wait—but THE BEST IS YET TO COME!&#8221;

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Trump Adds Descriptions For Every President On Presidential Walk Of Fame. You Need To Read Them.

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Former President Bill Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, were ordered to appear before Congress for depositions on the Jeffrey Epstein probe next month after the two powerful Democrats attempted to avoid the House Oversight Committee&#8217;s grilling.
The Clintons&#8217; lawyer wrote a letter to the House Oversight Committee on November 3 in an attempt to get the former president and former Secretary of State out of testifying in person. The Clintons&#8217; attorney asked if they could simply submit “a written proffer of what little information” they have on Epstein. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) <a href="https://x.com/RepJamesComer/status/1991877484208595253">denied</a> that request on Friday and ordered the Clintons to appear for their depositions on December 17 and 18.
&#8220;As your letter indicates, both President Clinton and Secretary Clinton possess information relevant to the Committee&#8217;s investigation,&#8221; Comer wrote to the Clintons&#8217; attorney, David Kendall.
&#8220;Additionally, your suggestion that your clients’ testimony would not be relevant to the stated purposes of the Committee’s investigation because the events in question took place outside of the Clintons’ respective official duties, misses the Committee’s point,&#8221; Comer added. &#8220;It is precisely the fact President Clinton and Secretary Clinton each maintained relationships with Mr. Epstein and Ms. [Ghislaine] Maxwell in their personal capacities as private citizens that is of interest to the Committee.&#8221;
Former President Clinton is scheduled to appear before the committee at 10:00 a.m. on December 17, while the former first lady is set to appear at 10:00 a.m. on December 18.
A House Oversight panel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-panel-votes-to-subpoena-epstein-files-clintons-ex-law-enforcement-leaders">voted</a> in July to subpoena the Clintons, along with former law enforcement leaders and more files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Three Republicans joined with five Democrats in the vote to approve the subpoenas. Comer then issued the subpoenas for the Clintons on August 5.
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The Clintons were ordered to appear for their depositions after President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-unleashes-doj-to-investigate-epsteins-democrat-friends">directed</a> the Justice Department to investigate former President Clinton over his ties to Epstein. Attorney General Pam Bondi <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bondi-says-new-info-warrants-more-epstein-investigations-as-doj-sets-sights-on-his-dem-pals?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Bondi+Says+%E2%80%98New+Info%E2%80%99+Warrants+More+Epstein+Investigations+As+DOJ+Sets+Sights+On+His+Dem+Pals">said</a> on Wednesday that &#8220;new information&#8221; warrants further investigations into Epstein and those connected to him after the Justice Department closed its investigation into Epstein earlier this year.
Trump also signed legislation earlier this week to release the remaining Epstein files after arguing that Democrats have focused on what he has called the Epstein &#8220;hoax&#8221; to deflect from other issues.
Bill Clinton traveled with Epstein and Maxwell multiple times, with flight records indicating that the former president was with Epstein on his infamous “Lolita Express,” the airplane Epstein is accused of using to sex traffic underage girls. The former president <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bill-clinton-jeffrey-epstein/story?id=127629827">traveled</a> with the financier and his associate to numerous countries, including Bangkok, Brunei, Rwanda, Russia, and China.
Trump has suggested that Bill Clinton visited Epstein&#8217;s island in the Virgin Islands, but the former president has denied that he ever set foot on the island. In an email released by the House Oversight Committee earlier this month, Epstein wrote that Bill Clinton &#8220;was NEVER EVER there, never.&#8221;
There is no evidence that Hillary traveled with Epstein, and neither Bill nor Hillary has been accused of any wrongdoing related to Epstein&#8217;s sex crimes.
The Clintons&#8217; attorney stated in his November 3 letter that both Bill and Hillary &#8220;welcome legitimate oversight,&#8221; seeking to uncover the truth behind Epstein&#8217;s and Maxwell&#8217;s crimes. The attorney added that the Clintons &#8220;have little to contribute to that legitimate goal, all of which can be readily submitted on paper.&#8221;
Comer argued that the committee is &#8220;entitled to a fulsome examination&#8221; of the information that the Clintons possess on Epstein and &#8220;the ability to elicit the information in person and to ask relevant follow-up questions.&#8221;

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Congress Just Ordered The Clintons To Face Epstein Depositions. Here’s When They’ll Be Grilled.

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President Donald Trump believes Democrats are reviving attention on Jeffrey Epstein to distract from the party’s recent government shutdown failure. Now, the president is directing his own focus toward Epstein, calling out prominent Democrats who had ties to the convicted sex offender.
Trump directed the Department of Justice on Friday to investigate Epstein&#8217;s connections to a list of powerful Democrats, including former President Bill Clinton, former U.S. Treasury Secretary and Harvard President Larry Summers, and venture capitalist Reid Hoffman. Trump compared the Democratic Party&#8217;s focus on Epstein to the Russian collusion investigation during his first administration, arguing that all the &#8220;arrows&#8221; are &#8220;pointing to the Democrats.&#8221;
&#8220;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,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115548785919046772">wrote</a> on Truth Social.
&#8220;Records show that these men, and many others, spent large portions of their life with Epstein, and on his &#8216;Island.&#8217; Stay tuned!!!&#8221; Trump added.
Trump&#8217;s directive comes two days after Democrats <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dems-drop-new-epstein-emails-in-which-he-claims-trump-knew-about-the-girls">released</a> multiple Epstein emails, including correspondence in which the pedophile claimed that Trump &#8220;knew about the girls&#8221; and “spent hours” at Epstein’s home with one of the sexual abuser&#8217;s victims. The House GOP Oversight Committee released an additional 20,000 pages of documents on Wednesday, and the White House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-responds-to-epstein-emails-dropped-by-dems-says-its-an-attempt-to-deflect-from-shutdown">said</a> that the contents further confirm that Trump did not take part in Epstein&#8217;s sex crimes.
“The Democrats selectively leaked emails to the liberal media to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump. The ‘unnamed victim’ referenced in these emails is the late Virginia Giuffre, who repeatedly said President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever and ‘couldn’t have been friendlier’ to her in their limited interactions,” said White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
Trump also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-responds-to-epstein-emails-dropped-by-dems-says-its-an-attempt-to-deflect-from-shutdown">responded</a> to the Epstein email dump, saying on Wednesday that &#8220;Democrats are trying to bring up the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax again because they’ll do anything at all to deflect on how badly they’ve done on the Shutdown.&#8221; He added, &#8220;Only a very bad, or stupid, Republican would fall into that trap.&#8221;
Clinton&#8217;s association with Epstein is well documented, but — like Trump — the former president has not been accused of any wrongdoing related to Epstein&#8217;s crimes. Clinton traveled across the world with Epstein numerous times, with flight records indicating that the former president was on Epstein&#8217;s infamous “Lolita Express,” the airplane on which Epstein is accused of using to sex traffic underage girls. In 2002, Clinton was also <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-2002-pic-epstein-195200112.html">pictured</a> getting a massage from one of Epstein&#8217;s accusers, then-22-year-old Chauntae Davies. Davies accused Epstein of raping her multiple times over the course of four years. She did not accuse Clinton of any wrongdoing.
Summers also had a good relationship with Epstein, as did financial power player Hoffman. None of those men has been publicly accused by any of the women who were victimized by Epstein. Summers and Epstein communicated regularly throughout the years, and the latest Epstein email dump revealed that Summers <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/us/politics/epstein-larry-summers.html">asked</a> Epstein for advice about a relationship with a woman after Epstein had pleaded guilty to state-level prostitution charges.
Hoffman <a href="https://www.axios.com/2019/09/12/reid-hoffman-jeffrey-epstein-mit-donations">admitted</a> in 2019 that his relationship with Epstein and his agreement to participate in a fundraising event alongside him &#8220;helped to repair [Epstein&#8217;s] reputation and perpetuate injustice.&#8221;
&#8220;For this, I am deeply regretful,&#8221; Hoffman added.
J.P. Morgan Chase, one of the world&#8217;s largest banks, has faced scrutiny after <a href="https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU00/20250917/118612/HHRG-119-JU00-20250917-SD055-U55.pdf">processing and handling</a> more than $1 billion for Epstein over the course of 15 years. JPMorgan agreed to a $290 million settlement with Epstein&#8217;s victims in 2023 after it was accused of ignoring red flags about Epstein&#8217;s sex trafficking.

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Trump Unleashes DOJ To Investigate Epstein’s Democrat Friends

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent flipped the script on Democratic adviser-turned-ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos during a Sunday morning interview, reminding him of what he&#8217;d said about the government shutdowns that took place in 1995 when his old boss, former President Bill Clinton, had been at odds with a Republican-controlled Congress led by then House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA).
Bessent joined Stephanopoulos to talk about the ongoing shutdown — driven by Democrat demands for a blanket extension of 2022 Obamacare subsidies that were designed to assist with shortfalls due to the COVID-19 pandemic and then sunset  after three years — and the conversation centered on how best to bring an end to the shutdown that has now lasted nearly 40 days.
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&#8220;The president continues to post about ending the filibuster,&#8221; Stephanopoulos began. &#8220;Is that the best way to end this shutdown right now? Is that what the administration position is?&#8221;
&#8220;No, George, the best way to do it — and look, you were involved in a lot of these in the &#8217;90s. And you basically called the Republicans terrorists and, you know, you said that it is not the responsible party that keeps the government closed,” Bessent replied. &#8220;And so what we need is five brave moderate Democratic Senators to cross the aisle, because right now it is 52 to three — 52 to three — five Democrats can cross the aisle and reopen the government. That&#8217;s the best way to do it, George.&#8221;
&#8220;I can disagree with you about the history there,&#8221; Stephanopoulos said with a half smile. &#8220;We don&#8217;t have to get into a history lesson right now —&#8221;
&#8220;George —&#8221; Bessent tried to push back.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s talk about —&#8221; Stephanopoulos interrupted. &#8220;Let&#8217;s talk about what&#8217;s happening right now.&#8221;
&#8220;If you want, I&#8217;ve got all your quotes here,&#8221; Bessent offered.
&#8220;I&#8217;m sure you do, but let&#8217;s talk about the situation —&#8221; Stephanopoulos tried again.
&#8220;I read your book, so you got one purchase on Amazon this week,&#8221; Bessent quipped. &#8220;And that&#8217;s very much what you said.&#8221;
&#8220;That’s a mischaracterization of history,&#8221; Stephaopoulos claimed.
However, during a <a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/clinton/interviews/stephanopoulos.html">PBS interview</a> conducted in the summer of 2000, Stephanopoulos used almost the exact words quoted by Bessent to describe the White House&#8217;s strategy — of which he was an integral part — to fight congressional Republicans during the 1995 government shutdowns that lasted five days (November 14-19) and 21 days (December 16, 1995-January 6, 1996) respectively.
The question presented to Stephanopoulos was a simple one: &#8220;In the fall of 1995, the government shutdown is dominating the government at this time. The president is doing some real brinkmanship. What was the strategy with the Republicans in the fall of 1995?&#8221;
&#8220;Our strategy was very simple,&#8221; Stephanopoulos replied. &#8220;We couldn&#8217;t buckle, and we had to say that they were blackmailing the country to get their way. In order to get their tax cut, they were willing to shut down the government, throw the country into default for the first time in its history and cut Medicare, Social Security, education and the environment just so they could get their way. And we were trying to say that they were basically terrorists, and it worked.&#8221;

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It has been 24 years since the deadly attacks on the U.S. that unleashed a decade-long war against Al-Qaeda and the hunt for its leader. Those who fought that war and participated in that hunt should be remembered and honored for it. 
I had the privilege to play a small role in the endgame of that search as we delivered justice to the killer of so many innocents. It is also good to commemorate the Americans who fell in battles with Al Qaeda before we acknowledged that we were, in fact, at war with that terrorist organization. Those pre-9/11 clashes included the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center and the 1998 bombings of the American Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. 
It was the Al Qaeda assault on the USS Cole in 2000, however, that is seen as a precursor to September 11, 2001.
In 1779, when a British officer demanded the surrender of the USS Bonhomme Richard, John Paul Jones — founder of the American Navy — famously retorted, “I have not yet begun to fight.” That retort has been the credo of American sailors ever since. And it epitomized the reaction of every crew member aboard the USS Cole to the attack on their ship.
Now, 25 years after the surprise attack, Big Media and DailyWire+ bring you &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTvFDubU86g">USS Cole: Al Qaeda&#8217;s Strike Before 9/11.</a>&#8221; The three-part documentary captures the crew&#8217;s courage, professionalism, and sacrifice during and after the assault on their ship.
<div id="attachment_981571" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/uss-cole-al-qaeda-s-strike-before-9-11-official-trailer"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-981571" class="size-large wp-image-981571" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/USS-Cole-16x9-keyart-1024x576.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/USS-Cole-16x9-keyart-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/USS-Cole-16x9-keyart-300x169.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/USS-Cole-16x9-keyart-768x432.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/USS-Cole-16x9-keyart-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/USS-Cole-16x9-keyart.jpg 1920w" sizes=" (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a>DailyWire+</div>
The documentary also provides insights into the efforts of the skipper of the USS Cole, Commander Kirk S. Lippold, and other military professionals, who navigate the limitations placed on their abilities to respond to terror threats in the pre-9/11 era, which are at once fascinating and deeply unsettling. Finally, the show documents the comprehensive investigation and relentless pursuit of the perpetrators in the wake of the attack.
The Al Qaeda attack on the Cole occurred on October 12, 2000. The U.S. Navy destroyer was making a routine refueling stop at the Port of Aden, Yemen, when a small boat carrying concealed explosives approached the port side of the ship. The two men on board made friendly gestures to sailors on the Cole, and then detonated their lethal cargo. The resulting blast tore a 40-foot-wide hole in the hull near the galley, at a time when many crew members were lining up for lunch. The explosion killed 17 personnel on the ship and injured 40 others. Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack, which had been coordinated by operatives who had trained in Afghanistan.
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As shown in the Big Media production, the crew of the Cole responded to the attack with extraordinary bravery and professionalism, working to triage injured shipmates and to deal with the extensive damage to the vessel. Within minutes of the explosion, medical personnel were rescuing, treating, and evacuating the wounded, many of whom were trapped under collapsed bulkheads. Sailors, a number of whom were badly injured themselves, fought flooding and fires for more than 96 hours, working without adequate sleep or food, often in total darkness and with the threat of further explosions. They did this despite the loss of key leaders, demonstrating great technical skill and courage in extremely hazardous conditions. With the assistance of nearby British Royal Navy ships and medical aid from the French military, the crew members saved the lives of injured shipmates and kept their ship from sinking. Later transported back to the U.S. for repair, the Cole remains in service with the Navy today.
&#8220;USS Cole: Al Qaeda&#8217;s Strike Before 9/11&#8221; also recounts the FBI investigation into the attack on the Cole. The Bureau dispatched more than 100 agents, lab technicians, and counterterrorism personnel to Yemen. Working with local authorities, FBI officers conducted witness interviews and collected evidence that resulted in a determination that Al Qaeda was, indeed, responsible for the Cole attack. In fact, it was tied to an abortive attempt to bomb another Navy ship, the USS The Sullivans, in January 2000. By the end of 2000, two men suspected of masterminding the bombing were arrested. Both subsequently escaped from Yemeni jails but were later killed in separate American airstrikes.
Another planner of the attack, captured in 2002, was shipped to Guantanamo Bay, where he was charged with responsibility for the Cole bombing and other terror-related offenses. Additional investigations and prosecutions identified numerous unindicted Al Qaeda co-conspirators. U.S. authorities have continuously pursued the remaining suspects. 
The lessons learned from the ordeal of the USS Cole and the investigations resulted in significant changes to U.S. Navy force protection protocols and U.S. counterterrorism policy. The documentary raises a key question over whether one of the key factors that contributed to the successful terrorist bombing of the Cole — and to the 9/11 attack — was that we were paying attention to things that distracted us from the threat.
Before the first plane struck the World Trade Center, we, as a nation, had not yet begun to fight. But the men and women of the USS Cole already had. And it is right that we should honor and remember them for it. In its portrayal of their courage, heroism, and sacrifice, the Big Media telling of their story does just that.
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Mark Kelton is the former CIA Chief of Counterintelligence.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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The Justice Department on Friday released hours of audio and hundreds of pages of <a href="https://www.justice.gov/maxwell-interview">transcripts</a> of interviews it conducted with Jeffrey Epstein associate and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
During her two days of interviews with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Maxwell said she does not believe that Epstein, who was found dead in a Manhattan federal prison cell in 2019 while facing sex trafficking charges, killed himself.
&#8220;I do not believe he died by suicide,&#8221; Maxwell said, adding that she had no idea who could have been behind his death.
Maxwell confirmed her close ties to the rich and famous, but claimed she never saw any man do anything inappropriate with a woman of any age. She said that it was “a flat no” that any man, including President Donald Trump and former President Bill Clinton, did anything inappropriate.
“I never, ever saw any man doing something inappropriate with a woman of any age. I never saw inappropriate habits,” she <a href="https://www.justice.gov/storage/audio-files/Interview%20Transcript/Interview%20Transcript%20-%20Maxwell%202025.07.25%20(Redacted).pdf">told</a> Blanche. “Now somebody’s inappropriate and mine may be different.”
Maxwell also denied the existence of any Epstein client list and that anyone was being blackmailed. Blanche asked whether Maxwell had seen a variety of powerful men do anything inappropriate with women during her interactions with them.
“Absolutely never, in any context,” she said when asked if she had seen President Donald Trump do anything improper.
“Trump was always very cordial and very kind to me. And I just want to say that I find — I — I admire his extraordinary achievement in becoming the president now. And I like him, and I’ve always liked him. So that is the sum and substance of my entire relationship with him,” she said, according to the transcript.
“I actually never saw the president in any type of massage setting. I never witnessed the president in any inappropriate setting in any way,” she added. “The president was never inappropriate with anybody. In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman in all respects.”
She said that she was unaware of any masseuses from Mar-a-Lago ever giving Epstein a private massage. 
She also complained about people linking her and Epstein together.
“Another thing is that everyone puts us together like a monolith,” she said. “He literally had a separate life from me. I literally had a separate life from him.”
During the interview, Maxwell discussed her relationship with the Clintons, recounting a trip she took to Latin America with President Bill Clinton. When asked what the purpose of the trip was, she said that she did not remember.
“And I thought it was an honor and a privilege to be part of something so amazing and to have an opportunity to spend time with a man that I found truly extraordinary. And please, I don’t mean it in any other way, other than as a former fantastic ex-president,” she said.
She also said that she had met powerful figures like Elon Musk, former CNN host Chris Cuomo, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, former Secretary of State John Kerry, former Democrat Senator Ted Kennedy, and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
According to Maxwell, RFK Jr. and Epstein took a trip in the mid-1990s to find dinosaur bones in the Dakotas. She said that she never witnessed anything inappropriate happen on the trip.
Shortly after the interview files were released, Maxwell’s lawyer put out a statement denying that she had ever committed any crimes.
“Ghislaine Maxwell is innocent and never should have been tried, much less convicted, in this case. She never committed or participated in sexual abuse against minors, or anyone else for that matter,” lawyer David Markus posted on X. “In fact, the government has admitted that it did not even consider her a conspirator during the extensive investigation into Epstein in the Southern District of Florida. The only reason she was ever charged is that she served as a scapegoat after Jeffrey Epstein died in prison.”
Maxwell was convicted in 2021 for her role in the Epstein scheme to sexually abuse and exploit minor girls. She is currently serving out a 20-year sentence and was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ghislaine-maxwell-moved-from-florida-prison-to-lower-security-facility" target="_blank" rel="noopener">moved</a> to a lower-security prison shortly after she met with Blanche.
Trump has been asked numerous times if he would consider pardoning Maxwell.
The full transcripts and audio files can be <a href="https://www.justice.gov/maxwell-interview">found here</a>.

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The Democrats gave Republicans in command of Congress a trump card should former President Bill Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, fight their <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/congress-subpoenas-clintons-doj-records-and-former-officials-in-sweeping-epstein-investigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">subpoenas</a> for testimony related to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, said House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY).
During an <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6376766065112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview on Fox News</a>, Comer explained to &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures&#8221; anchor Maria Bartiromo that a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-panel-votes-to-subpoena-epstein-files-clintons-ex-law-enforcement-leaders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bipartisan vote</a> underlying the subpoenas demanding an October 9 deposition with Hillary Clinton and October 14 deposition with Bill Clinton could be a valuable asset in a potential court battle. Comer also subpoenaed the Department of Justice (DOJ) for documents related to Epstein as well as several ex-law enforcement leaders for testimony.
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&#8220;What makes these subpoenas special and historical is that they came as a result of a bipartisan vote,&#8221; Comer said. &#8220;The Democrats made a motion, like we knew they would, to subpoena the Epstein documents, which Republicans support. Scott Perry from Pennsylvania amended that motion to include subpoenas for both Bill and Hillary Clinton, as well as six former attorneys generals — and the Democrats voted for it.&#8221;
He continued, &#8220;Now they&#8217;re scared and trying to say they didn&#8217;t vote for it, but they did. It&#8217;s on record. And that helps us in court. If the Clintons try to fight this subpoena, which we presume they will, this &#8230; subpoena came as a result of a bipartisan vote, which has never happened before in the House Oversight Committee.&#8221;
The Clintons have sought to distance themselves from Epstein, a wealthy financier and convicted sex offender who was found dead at the age of 66 in his New York City jail cell in 2019 — after being arrested on sex trafficking charges involving young girls. Bill Clinton&#8217;s spokesperson released a statement in 2019 that acknowledged some trips on Epstein&#8217;s plane and meetings with him, but <a href="https://x.com/angelurena/status/1148357927625023490" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denied</a> the former president had knowledge of Epstein&#8217;s crimes or made trips to his private island.
In his subpoena <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/2025.08.05-Subpoena-Cover-Letters.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cover letters</a>, Comer said there were &#8220;conflicting reports&#8221; about whether Bill Clinton did visit Epstein&#8217;s island. The chairman noted Bill Clinton was &#8220;allegedly close&#8221; to Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell and &#8220;attended an intimate dinner with her in 2014, three years after public reports about her involvement in Mr. Epstein’s abuse of minors.&#8221; Maxwell, who is serving <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/ghislaine-maxwell-sentenced-20-years-prison-conspiring-jeffrey-epstein-sexually-abuse">a 20-year prison sentence</a> after being found guilty of conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse underage girls, is another person Comer has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ghislaine-maxwell-sends-congress-list-of-demands-for-deposition" target="_blank" rel="noopener">subpoenaed</a>. Comer further pointed out that Maxwell’s nephew worked for Hillary Clinton&#8217;s 2008 presidential campaign and was hired by the State Department shortly after she became secretary of state.&#8221;
&#8220;So we&#8217;re looking forward to hearing from the Clintons,&#8221; Comer told Bartiromo. &#8220;The American people want to know what went on on Epstein island. We know Clinton went there many times. We just want to ask Bill Clinton what he saw when he was there and who all was involved.&#8221;

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Congress is ratcheting up its investigation into matters related to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, subpoenaing the Department of Justice (DOJ) for documents as well as former President Bill Clinton, his wife, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and several ex-law enforcement leaders for testimony.
House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) made the <a href="https://x.com/RepJamesComer/status/1952729381983408550" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announcement</a> on Tuesday, nearly two weeks after he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-subpoenas-epstein-associate-ghislaine-maxwell">subpoenaed</a> Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell to participate in a deposition.
The DOJ has been compelled to provide records by August 19. A copy of the subpoena, <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/2025.08.05-Subpoena-and-Schedule-to-DOJ.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> to the House Oversight Committee&#8217;s website, shows the breadth of documents being sought by lawmakers.
Former Attorney General William Barr is scheduled for a deposition on August 18, followed by former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on August 26, and former Attorney General Jeff Sessions on August 28.  Former FBI Director Robert Mueller is set to be deposed on September 2, with former Attorney General Loretta Lynch to follow on September 9.
Afterwards, former Attorney General Eric Holder is set for a deposition on September 30, and former Attorney General Merrick Garland is scheduled for October 2. Former FBI Director James Comey is poised to face a deposition on October 7, while Hillary Clinton is slated for October 9, and Bill Clinton on October 14.
In his <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/2025.08.05-Subpoena-Cover-Letters.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cover letters</a>, Comer explained how the Clinton family &#8220;appears to have had a close relationship&#8221; with Epstein and Maxwell. To the former law enforcement heads, the chairman noted the various ways the FBI and DOJ were involved in investigations, litigation, and other matters related to Epstein and Maxwell during their tenures.
Comer issued the new wave of subpoenas following <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-panel-votes-to-subpoena-epstein-files-clintons-ex-law-enforcement-leaders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">votes</a> on July 23 by Oversight&#8217;s Federal Law Enforcement Subcommittee.
Members approved by voice vote a motion from Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) to issue the subpoenas to the Clintons and former law enforcement leaders. The panel also passed, by an 8-2 vote, an amended motion from Rep. Summer Lee (D-PA) to subpoena the DOJ for Epstein case records. Amendments by Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), to include Biden administration communications with the DOJ regarding Epstein, and Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), to redact victims’ names and any child sexual abuse material, were both adopted by voice vote.
Epstein, a wealthy financier and convicted sex offender, was found dead at the age of 66 in his New York City jail cell in 2019 — after being arrested on sex trafficking charges involving young girls. In addition to the Clintons, Epstein had connections to a variety of high-profile people, including President Donald Trump. The Clintons and Trump have sought to distance themselves from Epstein over the years. Maxwell is serving <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/ghislaine-maxwell-sentenced-20-years-prison-conspiring-jeffrey-epstein-sexually-abuse">a 20-year prison sentence</a> after being found guilty of conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse underage girls.
A growing number of lawmakers have been pushing ever since the Trump administration&#8217;s DOJ claimed it had no evidence that Epstein had a client list, blackmailed powerful people, or was murdered after Attorney General Pam Bondi <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shes-great-trump-backs-bondi-wants-top-officials-to-end-conflict-over-epstein">hinted</a> that major bombshells were about to be revealed. At the behest of Trump, who has argued that people are falling for a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-explains-trumps-epstein-hoax-claim">&#8220;hoax&#8221;</a> spun by the Democrats, Bondi later asked judges to unseal grand jury testimony from the cases against Epstein and Maxwell. One federal judge in Florida <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hands-are-tied-federal-judge-denies-dojs-request-to-unseal-epstein-grand-jury-transcripts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denied</a> the DOJ request. Judges in New York, where other cases took place, did not make decisions right away.
&#8220;While the Department undertakes efforts to uncover and publicly disclose additional information related to Mr. Epstein and Ms. Maxwell’s cases, it is imperative that Congress conduct oversight of the federal government’s enforcement of sex trafficking laws generally and specifically its handling of the investigation and prosecution of Mr. Epstein and Ms. Maxwell,&#8221; Comer wrote in his cover letter to Bondi.
&#8220;The Committee may use the results of this investigation to inform legislative solutions to improve federal efforts to combat sex trafficking and reform the use of non-prosecution agreements and/or plea agreements in sex-crime investigations,&#8221; the chairman added. &#8220;Documents related to the Department’s investigation and prosecution of Mr. Epstein and Ms. Maxwell are relevant to the Committee’s investigation.&#8221;
Maxwell reportedly was <a class="c-link c-link--focus-visible" href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ghislaine-maxwell-moved-from-florida-prison-to-lower-security-facility" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ghislaine-maxwell-moved-from-florida-prison-to-lower-security-facility" data-sk="tooltip_parent">moved</a> from a prison in Florida to a lower-security facility in Texas after meeting with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who previously served as Trump’s personal lawyer. Her attorney wrote to Comer, in response to his subpoena demanding a deposition on August 11, warning that his client would <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ghislaine-maxwell-sends-congress-list-of-demands-for-deposition">refuse cooperation</a> with Congress if she is not granted immunity or given other concessions. The House Oversight Committee has rejected the idea of granting congressional immunity in exchange for Maxwell&#8217;s testimony.

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Popular radio host Charlamagne tha God highlighted the obvious double standard on display in the way media outlets cover President Donald Trump compared to the way they cover almost anyone else — but especially Democrats — using the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein as an example.
During his radio show &#8220;The Breakfast Club&#8221; on Tuesday, he pointed out the fact that former President Bill Clinton had been repeatedly linked to Epstein — but it was any connection to Trump, no matter how nebulous or even benign — that was poked, prodded, and explored ad nauseam by American media outlets.
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CHARLAMAGNE: &#8220;It&#8217;s just funny how the news works. Because Bill Clinton wrote a letter to Jeffrey Epstein as well for his birthday — but nobody&#8217;s talking about that.&#8221;
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&#8220;It&#8217;s just funny how the news works,&#8221; Charlamagne said, referencing a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-files-massive-libel-lawsuit-against-wall-street-journal-over-fake-epstein-letter">report</a> — over which President Trump has filed a libel lawsuit — from The Wall Street Journal stating that Trump had written Epstein a letter that was included in a birthday book.
&#8220;Because Bill Clinton wrote a letter to Jeffrey Epstein as well for his birthday — but nobody&#8217;s talking about that,&#8221; Charlamagne added. &#8220;And Jeffrey Epstein had a picture of Bill Clinton in a dress, in high heels, you know, in his New York mansion, but nobody&#8217;s talking about that.&#8221;
&#8220;My thing is this,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I don&#8217;t care who&#8217;s on the list, everybody gotta go. Burn it all down. Like — it&#8217;s just simple as that, mutually assured destruction, whoever&#8217;s on that list needs to go, nobody needs to be protecting pedophiles, I don&#8217;t care what party they are.&#8221;
Morgyn Wood, White House correspondent for the Black Information Network, weighed in then, arguing that Trump was only in the spotlight because he happened to be the sitting President of the United States. She failed to mention the fact that when former President Joe Biden was in office, legacy media outlets had showed an aggressive lack of curiosity in his obvious cognitive decline.
&#8220;No, period. And you know, to that point, though, you know Clinton is not the president right now,&#8221; Wood protested. &#8220;You know, if he was, you think that — anyways, yeah. I think he would still be under scrutiny if he was the president right now.&#8221;
&#8220;No, he wouldn&#8217;t — because liberal media wouldn&#8217;t push the issue,&#8221; Charlamagne shot back.

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'Funny How The News Works': Charlamagne Tha God Blows Up Media's Double Standard On Epstein

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Asked about the Jeffrey Epstein files again on Friday morning, President Donald Trump told reporters on the White House lawn that they should focus on former President Bill Clinton&#8217;s connection to the convicted child sex abuser.
The president also mentioned Larry Summers, the former president of Harvard and Treasury Secretary under Clinton, and &#8220;some of his friends that are hedge fund guys.&#8221; Neither Summers nor Clinton has been accused of any crimes related to Epstein&#8217;s sex trafficking and abuse.
&#8220;You ought to be speaking about Bill Clinton, who went to [Epstein&#8217;s] island 28 times. I never went to the island,&#8221; Trump said.
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President Trump just named checked Bill Clinton and Larry Summers when asked about Epstein:
“You ought to be talking about Larry Summers…. or Bill Clinton, who went to the island 28 times. I never went to the island.” <a href="https://t.co/YkUNToInL9">pic.twitter.com/YkUNToInL9</a>
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Trump&#8217;s comments come amid continued pressure for the administration to release more information on the Epstein files after the Department of Justice concluded earlier this month that there was no evidence that Epstein kept a client list. Trump has blasted the focus on the Epstein files as a Democrat &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-dismisses-epstein-case-hoax-as-his-justice-department-interviews-ghislaine-maxwell?author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Trump+Dismisses+Epstein+Case+%E2%80%98HOAX%E2%80%99+As+His+Justice+Department+Interviews+Ghislaine+Maxwell">CON JOB</a>,&#8221; but suggested on Thursday that more information would come to light after his DOJ requested that grand jury transcripts in the case be unsealed.
Clinton has acknowledged that he was a former associate of Epstein&#8217;s, but denied that he had any knowledge of the pedophile&#8217;s crimes against young girls. A spokesman for Clinton <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/08/politics/bill-clinton-jeffrey-epstein#:~:text=%E2%80%9CIn%202002%20and%202003%2C%20President,young%2Dlooking%20girls%2C%20prosecutors%20say">claimed</a> in 2019 that the former president traveled on Epstein&#8217;s private jet on four occasions between 2002 and 2003, &#8220;one to Europe, one to Asia, and two to Africa, which included stops in connection with the work of the Clinton Foundation.&#8221;
The Clinton spokesman added that the former president &#8220;has never been to Little St. James Island, Epstein’s ranch in New Mexico, or his residence in Florida.&#8221;
A 2016 article from Fox News, however, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/flight-logs-show-bill-clinton-flew-on-sex-offenders-jet-much-more-than-previously-known">reported</a> that Clinton traveled on Epstein&#8217;s private jet at least 26 times, according to flight records. In 2020, a <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/08/18/photos-show-bill-clinton-getting-massage-from-epstein-accuser/">picture</a> surfaced of Clinton getting a massage from Epstein accuser Chauntae Davies after a 2002 flight on Epstein&#8217;s &#8220;Lolita Express,&#8221; the New York Post reported. Davies alleged that Epstein raped her on multiple occasions and also accused Epstein&#8217;s co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, of recruiting her to work for the predator. Davies did not accuse Clinton of any wrongdoing.
Clinton&#8217;s name also <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67865190">appeared</a> — alongside the names of President Trump, Prince Andrew, and others — in court filings related to the Epstein case. The court filings only detailed Clinton&#8217;s and Trump&#8217;s connection to Epstein and did not implicate the U.S. presidents in any criminality. Prince Andrew was <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/prince-andrew-allegations-jeffrey-epstein-documents-no-uk-police-investigation/">accused</a> of groping Johanna Sjoberg in 2001 and was also accused of sexual abuse by Virginia Giuffre, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/most-prominent-epstein-sexual-abuse-victim-virginia-giuffre-dies-by-apparent-suicide?author=Mairead+Elordi&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Most+Prominent+Epstein+Sexual+Abuse+Victim+Virginia+Giuffre+Dies+By+Apparent+Suicide">died</a> by apparent suicide earlier this year. Prince Andrew has denied any wrongdoing and settled the case brought by Giuffre out of court in 2022.
In a 2016 deposition, Sjoberg said that Epstein mentioned Clinton to her. “He said one time that Clinton likes them young, referring to girls,” Sjoberg said, but added that she never saw the former president on Epstein&#8217;s island. A Clinton spokesman said in 2019 that Clinton had not spoken to Epstein in more than a decade and had no knowledge of any criminal activity when he was last in contact with the disgraced financier.
The Wall Street Journal has published two <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-jeffrey-epstein-birthday-letter-we-have-certain-things-in-common-f918d796?mod=hp_lead_pos7">reports</a> over the past week on alleged birthday <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bill-clinton-commended-epstein-for-childlike-curiosity-in-unearthed-birthday-letter?author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=4&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Epstein+Birthday+Book+Also+Included+Bill+Clinton+Letter+Commending+Predator%E2%80%99s+%E2%80%98Childlike+Curiosity%E2%80%99">messages</a> sent to Epstein from Trump and Clinton. Trump ripped the WSJ over the report, calling it &#8220;FAKE,&#8221; and then <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-files-massive-libel-lawsuit-against-wall-street-journal-over-fake-epstein-letter">filed</a> a libel lawsuit against Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, and two Wall Street Journal reporters. A Clinton spokesman declined to comment on the alleged birthday message, according to the WSJ.
Asked about the WSJ report on Friday, Trump said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re talking about. Somebody could&#8217;ve written a letter and used my name. That&#8217;s happened a lot.&#8221;

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