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Acceding to U.S. President Donald Trump's demands, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Friday (November 14, 2025) that she has ordered a apical national authoritative to analyse enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein's ties to Mr. Trump governmental foes, including erstwhile President Bill Clinton.
Ms. Bondi posted connected X that she was assigning Manhattan U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton to pb the probe, capping an eventful week successful which legislature Republicans released astir 23,000 pages of documents from Epstein's property and House Democrats seized connected emails mentioning Mr. Trump.
Mr. Trump, who was friends with Epstein for years, didn't explicate what expected crimes helium wanted the Justice Department to investigate. None of the men helium mentioned successful a societal media station demanding the probe has been accused of intersexual misconduct by immoderate of Epstein's victims.
Hours earlier Ms. Bondi's announcement, Mr. Trump posted connected his Truth Social level that helium would inquire her, the Justice Department and the FBI to analyse Epstein's “involvement and relationship” with Mr. Clinton and others, including erstwhile Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and LinkedIn laminitis and Democratic donor Reid Hoffman.
Mr. Trump, calling the substance “the Epstein Hoax, involving Democrats, not Republicans,” said the probe should besides see fiscal elephantine JPMorgan Chase, which provided banking services to Epstein, and “many different radical and institutions.” “This is different Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, with each arrows pointing to the Democrats,” the Republican president wrote, referring to peculiar counsel Robert Mueller's probe of alleged Russian interference successful Trump's 2016 predetermination triumph implicit Bill Clinton's wife, erstwhile Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Big names successful Epstein's emails
Mr. Trump, Bill Clinton, Mr. Summers and Mr. Hoffman were each mentioned successful the documents released this week — a postulation of emails Epstein exchanged with friends and concern associates, quality articles, publication excerpts, ineligible papers and different material.
Epstein kept successful interaction with Mr. Summers and Mr. Hoffman via email, according to the documents, and wrote to different radical astir Trump and Clinton being successful his institution astatine assorted times implicit the years — though thing successful the messages suggested immoderate wrongdoing connected the men's part.
Mr. Clinton has acknowledged traveling connected Epstein's backstage pitchy but has said done a spokesperson that helium had nary cognition of the precocious financier's crimes. Neither Mr. Clinton nor Mr. Trump person been accused of wrongdoing by immoderate of the women who accidental Epstein abused them.
Mr. Summers, who served successful Mr. Clinton's furniture and is simply a erstwhile Harvard University president, antecedently said successful a connection that helium has “great regrets successful my life” and that “my relation with Jeffrey Epstein was a large mistake of judgement.” Message seeking remark were near for Hoffman done his concern firm, Greylock, and with a spokesperson for JPMorgan Chase.
After Epstein's enactment trafficking apprehension successful 2019, Mr. Hoffman said he'd lone had a fewer interactions with Epstein, each related to his fundraising for MIT's Media Lab. He nevertheless apologized, saying that “by agreeing to enactment successful immoderate fundraising enactment wherever Epstein was present, I helped to repair his estimation and perpetuate injustice.” None of Epstein's victims person accused Mr. Hoffman of misconduct.
Bondi, successful her post, praised Mr. Clayton arsenic “one of the astir susceptible and trusted prosecutors successful the country” and said the Justice Department “will prosecute this with urgency and integrity to present answers to the American people.” Mr. Clayton, the president of the Securities and Exchange Commission during Trump's archetypal term, took implicit successful April arsenic U.S. lawyer for the Southern District of New York — the aforesaid bureau that indicted Epstein and won a enactment trafficking condemnation against Epstein's longtime confidante, Ghislaine Maxwell, successful 2021.
Trump changes people connected Epstein files
Mr. Trump has raised questions astir Epstein's decease successful jailhouse a period aft his apprehension and suggested portion campaigning past twelvemonth that he'd question to unfastened up the government's lawsuit files.
But Mr. Trump has changed people successful caller months — blaming Democrats and coating the substance arsenic a “hoax” — amid questions astir his ain relationship with Epstein and what cognition helium whitethorn person had astir Epstein's yearslong exploitation of underage girls.
On Wednesday, Democrats connected the House Oversight Committee released 3 Epstein email exchanges that referenced Mr. Trump, including 1 from 2019 successful which Epstein said the President “knew astir the girls” and different from 2011 successful which helium said Trump had “spent hours” astatine his location with a enactment trafficking victim.
The emails did not accidental what Mr. Trump knew and did not springiness immoderate details of what Mr. Trump did portion astatine Epstein's house. White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt accused Democrats of having “selectively leaked emails” to “create a fake communicative to smear President Trump.” Soon after, Republicans connected the committee disclosed what they said was an further 20,000 pages of documents from Epstein's estate. Among them were emails Epstein wrote, including galore wherever helium commented — often unfavorably — connected Trump's emergence successful authorities and corresponded with journalists.
Other emails amusement Epstein keeping up affable relationships with world and concern leaders, including Mr. Summers and Mr. Hoffman, good aft helium pleaded blameworthy successful 2008 and served 13 months successful jailhouse for procuring a idiosyncratic nether 18 for prostitution.
Epstein and Mr. Summers discussed politics, arranged calls with each different and spoke connected much intimate matters, according to the emails, including astir a pistillate Summers had interactions with. Epstein's proposal to him: “You attraction precise overmuch for this person. you mightiness privation to show that.” Epstein exchanged conscionable a fewer emails with Hoffman, who aboriginal bankrolled writer E. Jean Carroll's intersexual maltreatment and defamation suit against Mr. Trump. In 1 exchange, successful 2015, Epstein told the billionaire: “heyy it looks similar your fare programme has worked.” Mr. Hoffman replied: “slow progress. readying to spot you successful August. Hope your well.”
