The President of the United States, Donald Trump, stated this Friday that he will ask the Department of Justice and the FBI to investigate the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and former President Bill Clinton, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, businessman Reid Hoffman, and financial institutions such as JP Morgan Chase "and many other people and institutions." Trump, as he often does, turned to his social media platform Truth Social to make this announcement, in which he insisted that Democrats are trying to divert attention from the government shutdown - which was lifted after 43 days following an agreement between Republicans and Democrats - and stated that all these people "spent much of their lives with Epstein and on his island." "Now that the Democrats are using the Epstein scam, which involves Democrats, not Republicans, to try to divert attention from their disastrous GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN and all their other failures, I will ask Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice, along with our great patriots at the FBI, to investigate the involvement of Jeffrey Epstein and his 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 with him," he indicated.
Trump in the crosshairs over Epstein emails
The president's announcement comes after this week the House Oversight Committee, which is investigating Epstein, published emails mentioning him. In them, spread by Democratic congressmen, Epstein claimed that Trump would have spent "hours" with a victim whose name was redacted and that this would be, according to the White House itself, Virginia Giuffre, the woman who accused Prince Andrew, brother of King Charles III of England, of sexual abuse. Those emails, dated between 2011 and 2019, are part of the more than 20,000 documents from Epstein's estate obtained by the Oversight Committee on the late magnate and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence.
The White House accused the Democrats of having "selectively" leaked the emails to try to damage Trump's image. In his announcement today, the head of state made no reference to the emails or his relationship with Epstein. However, he assured that this is "another Russian scam, with all the clues pointing to the Democrats," referring to the investigation that Congress conducted into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections, which Trump won.
