President Donald Trump on Friday said he will ask the Justice Department to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged ties with U.S. bank JPMorgan (JPM.N), and prominent Democrats, including former President Bill Clinton, as the Republican’s relationship with the disgraced financier is back in the spotlight.
The request comes two days after a congressional committee released thousands of documents that raised new questions about Trump’s relationship with the late convicted sex offender, and marks the latest in a series of demands by Trump for federal law enforcement to pursue his perceived political enemies.
The Epstein scandal has been a political thorn in Trump’s side for months, partly because he amplified conspiracy theories about Epstein to his own supporters. Many Trump voters believe the government has covered up Epstein’s ties to powerful figures and obscured details surrounding his death by suicide in a Manhattan jail in 2019.
Along with Clinton, who socialized with Epstein in the early 2000s, Trump said he had asked the Justice Department to investigate former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, and Reid Hoffman, the LinkedIn founder who is also a prominent Democratic donor. All three men were mentioned in the 20,000 Epstein-related documents released by the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday.
“Epstein was a Democrat, and he is the Democrat’s problem, not the Republican’s problem!” Trump wrote on social media. “They all know about him, don’t waste your time with Trump. I have a Country to run!”
The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A JPMorgan spokesperson said in an emailed statement: “We regret any association we had with the man, but did not help him commit his heinous acts.”
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives is expected to vote next week on legislation that would force the Justice Department to release all of the material it holds on Epstein, who was facing federal charges of sex trafficking minors at the time of his suicide. The measure is expected to pass, even after House Speaker Mike Johnson repeatedly maneuvered to try to block the vote. It would also require the Senate to pass similar legislation and Trump’s approval to compel the Justice Department to act.
JPMorgan paid $290 million in 2023 to some of Epstein’s victims to settle accusations that it had turned a blind eye to his sex trafficking. The deal followed embarrassing disclosures that JPMorgan ignored internal warnings and overlooked red flags about Epstein, who was a client of the bank between 1998 and 2013. The bank did not admit wrongdoing in the settlement.
No credible evidence has surfaced that Clinton, Summers or Hoffman were involved in Epstein’s sex trafficking. All have previously denied wrongdoing and have expressed regret about their relationships with him.
Clinton flew on Epstein’s private jet several times before the financier’s 2008 conviction, while Summers accepted philanthropic gifts from Epstein while serving as president of Harvard University. Hoffman has acknowledged meeting with Epstein multiple times in professional situations.
Before his 2008 conviction, Epstein worked and socialized with a long list of well-known figures, including the UK’s former Prince Andrew, who was stripped of his royal title due in part to his association with Epstein.
Trump has harnessed the Justice Department to target other political opponents, some of whom now face criminal charges that outside experts have described as politically motivated.
Epstein was a democrat
So was Trump at this time
Trump sucked Bubba
Quickly! Look at Bill Clinton!
If only Bill Clinton was a squirrel and all other humans in this world were dogs, that trick might actually work.
"Epstein was a Democrat
… So?
and he is the Democrat’s problem
Why?
not the Republican’s problem!" Trump wrote on social media
Oh I would very much disagree there now :)
“They all know about him, don’t waste your time with Trump. I have a Country to run!”
Yeah, see, “they” all know it’s you you fat pedo. The entire world knows it’s you and you will go down in history as the most disgraceful man in US history
First a BJ, now probing???
Shoot the little bastard, see if I care
I heard Clinton released his own probe
“Epstein was a Democrat, and he is the Democrat’s problem, not the Republican’s problem!” Trump wrote on social media. “They all know about him, don’t waste your time with Trump. I have a Country to run!”
No credible evidence has surfaced that Clinton, Summers or Hoffman were involved in Epstein’s sex trafficking.
Legitimate question, with release of the files still pending, don’t they have roughly the same amount of evidence for these guys as they do for anyone else? Clinton signed the birthday book, and Summers was part of several back and forth emails released yesterday.
I get that Trump is lobbing this as a distraction, and the president shouldn’t be calling for the DOJ to investigate citizens in some kind of “Don’t look at me, look at them! Off with their heads!” bullshit, but the House and Senate should be looking into all of these people. Every single person who was ever on that jet, everyone who emailed or sat down to discuss business with him, and especially anyone (cough:PeterfuckingThiel) who had any kind of financial transaction with Epstein, should be facing the same level of scrutiny that any regular person would if their name kept popping up in connection with this guy.
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When are we going to hear more about what Trump did in response to JP Morgan warning him about the suspicious transactions in Epstein’s account right after he died?
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If Trump cares so much about investigating JP Morgan maybe he should start with bank records between Thiel and Epstein, and ask why Republicans in the House have already blocked a subpoena for those records more than once in the last year.
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Why is the house dragging this vote out another fucking week? Just get this shit over with! Are Republicans going to block it again or not? Will the few Republicans that were willing to vote to release the files before the shutdown suddenly have a change of heart? Will some of the Democrats? Who fucking knows at this point.
and the president shouldn’t be calling for the DOJ to investigate citizens in some kind of “Don’t look at me, look at them! Off with their heads!” bullshit
The President should have no influence at all on who the DOJ investigates.
If there’s any evidence that the DOJ is being driven from the White House, any case that’s brought should be immediately thrown out of court. And if they get a corrupt judge, then the jury should nullify.
I agree, it’s very complex, but I blame the downfall of America on 3 main things:
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The constantly increasing level of presidential executive power, especially over the last ~30ish years (this is one of the few things I’ll give the “both sides” argument), and definitely not unrelated to that, is the unilateral decision making to involve the U.S. in foreign policy. I’m definitely not an isolationist, but I would rather the U.S. dump as much money and resources into helping improving NATO and the U.N., rather than yo-yoing between the elite world police who take over the entire investigation, or the world police who often refuse to even respond to 911 calls when they’re being begged for help by the wrong neighborhood.
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Citizens United. Overturn it. Also, implement something like term limits on supreme court justices.
If not an actual set term limit on appointments, maybe even the possibility of giving the American people the option (every 4 to 8 years) to vote on allowing individual justices to remain in their appointment or be replaced. Just do something to make these people actually give a shit about public accountability. That way maybe they would actually make decisions on behalf of the people of this country, and not the party that handed them a lifetime of holding waaay too much power.
- This goes back to the first point: I don’t even fully understand what all kinds of fucked up shit the patriot act actually did, but I do know that we need to undo a lot of it, and that nothing good has come from allowing the president to appoint the leader of the CIA.
It’s really unclear if even having a CIA has arguably done anything “good” for America. They didn’t even exist until WWII, and it seems like every fucking time things start to go well for this country (or any other country) they intervene and fuck it up while saying some paternalistic bullshit like “this is for your own good.”
Spoiler alert: it never fucking is.
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I will always bring this up. During the “birthday card” period, Trump was a Democrat. Democrats don’t care whonis implicated, we just want to punish ghouls.
What’s funny to me is how much he specifically wanted to highlight Bill Clinton after the bj thing. There was some small degree of plausible deniability as to who this “Bubba” person is (seeing a lot of articles mention it was a popular nickname for Bill but that’s not exactly concrete evidence). But the moment bubba was mentioned, trump instantly brought his name up as a target to discredit.
They should make the headline just “Trump wants to probe Clinton”
I wish it was Clinton, allegedly it’s not.
He’s doing this because if there’s an ongoing court case involved he thinks he can have everything sealed and not released to the public.
“Trump Seeks a Clinton Second Probing”
Last time a Clinton was involved in a BJ the sitting president was impeached. Let’s do that again.
Impeachment (or two) isn’t enough, as the current President shows. Impeachment without consequence is just something to note in the footnotes of a history book. Hell, Clinton didn’t get real consequences either, but let’s compare the impeachment findings of both Presidents as well as motives to pursue them together and compare.
Maybe also include the man who Epstein celebrated Thanksgiving with in 2017 who was also President at the time?
Maybe investigate THEM ALL because it’s the right thing to do? And maybe don’t give a free pass to the one that’s an adjudicated rapist, and the one that appears to have quashed a lawsuit directly tied to Epstein where they were both accused of raping a 13 year old child?
But who am I to come in here and try to employ basic logic?
This shit is so fucked. Lock up anyone but OUR guy! Pathetic.
A probe to the mouth #burn
