President Donald Trump, in a social media publish on Friday, stated he’ll “be asking A.G. Pam Bondi, and the Division of Justice, along with our nice patriots on the FBI, to analyze Jeffrey Epstein’s involvement and relationship with Invoice Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, J.P. Morgan, Chase, and plenty of different folks and establishments, to find out what was occurring with them, and him.”
Bondi introduced later Friday she has tapped Jay Clayton, the present U.S. legal professional for the Southern District of New York, to steer the Trump-ordered investigation of Epstein’s involvement with high-profile Democrats and JP Morgan Chase.
“Thanks, Mr. President. SDNY U.S. Legal professional Jay Clayton is among the most succesful and trusted prosecutors within the nation, and I’ve requested him to take the lead,” Bondi wrote on X in response to Trump’s social media publish. “As with all issues, the Division will pursue this with urgency and integrity to ship solutions to the American folks.”
Again in July, the DOJ and FBI released a memo on Epstein concluding there was “no incriminating ‘shopper record'” and “no credible proof discovered that Epstein blackmailed distinguished people as a part of his actions.”
The DOJ and FBI stated on the time no additional costs have been anticipated in reference to their probes into Epstein as they “didn’t uncover proof that would predicate an investigation in opposition to uncharged third events.”
Donald Trump listens as first girl Melania Trump speaks at a signing ceremony for the “Fostering the Future” govt order within the East Room of the White Home on November 13, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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A JPMorgan Chase spokesperson stated in an announcement supplied to ABC Information: “The federal government had damning details about [Epstein’s] crimes and did not share it with us or different banks. We remorse any affiliation we had with the person, however didn’t assist him commit his heinous acts. We ended our relationship with him years earlier than his arrest on intercourse trafficking costs.”
In 2023 JPM Chase settled two lawsuits — with no admission of wrongdoing — alleging that the financial institution ignored pink flags that Epstein was engaged in worldwide sex-trafficking. The monetary big paid $290 million in a category motion filed by Epstein survivors and one other $75 million to the federal government of the US Virgin Islands, the place Epstein maintained a non-public island property.
A spokesperson for the Clinton Basis stated in an announcement to ABC Information:
“These emails show Invoice Clinton did nothing and knew nothing. The remainder is noise meant to distract from election losses, backfiring shutdowns, and who is aware of what else.”
Clinton has denied any information of Epstein’s crimes and has denied ever visiting Epstein’s personal island. No Epstein survivor or affiliate has ever made a public allegation of wrongdoing or inappropriate habits by Clinton in connection to his prior relationship with Epstein.
Clinton traveled internationally on Epstein’s plane in 2002 and 2003 on 4 main journeys — a complete of 26 flight legs, in keeping with flight logs from Epstein’s personal jets made public throughout civil litigation. Not one of the flight data of Epstein’s planes which have surfaced in litigation point out Clinton — or Trump — was ever aboard for a visit to Epstein’s island.
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, a distinguished Epstein accuser, stated that she had met Clinton on the island, in keeping with court docket data and deposition testimony from her defamation case in opposition to Maxwell, which settled in 2017.
Maxwell and Epstein have stated Clinton by no means was on the island. In one of many emails launched from the Epstein property this week, Epstein wrote to a reporter in 2015 to disclaim what seem like allegations from Giuffre.
“Clinton was NEVER EVER there, by no means,” Epstein wrote.
However way back to 2015, Trump has insinuated that Clinton’s journey with Epstein may’ve concerned some compromising habits.
Trump’s name for a Justice Division investigation comes after Home Democrats launched emails from Epstein‘s property that talked about Trump by identify, together with a publish that referred to Trump because the “canine that hasn’t barked” and advised Maxwell that an alleged sufferer had “spent hours at my home” with Trump.
Trump, who was pleasant with Epstein for years, stated after Epstein’s arrest in 2019 that they hadn’t spoken in additional than a decade after having a falling out. White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed the brand new emails in a press briefing earlier this week, saying they “show completely nothing apart from the truth that President Trump did nothing incorrect.”
Bipartisan stress continued for the administration to launch the remainder of the Epstein recordsdata. This week, Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva turned the 218th signature wanted on a discharge petition to compel the DOJ to make these data public.
Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia, the rating member of the Home Oversight Committee, stated in an announcement on Friday that the panel’s Epstein investigation has “panicked” Trump. Garcia, responding to Trump’s social media publish, stated Trump is “attempting to deflect from severe new questions we now have about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.”
“The President has not defined why he received’t launch the recordsdata to the American folks. Or why intercourse trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell was moved to a comfortable low-security jail after her interview with Trump’s former private lawyer,” Rep. Garcia added.
Epstein died by suicide in 2019 whereas awaiting trial on costs of trafficking younger women and girls.
