President Donald Trump on Friday said he will direct Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to multiple high-profile figures, including JP Morgan, Bill Clinton and several prominent Democrats, following the release this week of new emails involving the late financier.
“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, JPMorgan Chase, and many other people and institutions to determine what was going on with them, and him,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The president has for months attempted to brush off renewed scrutiny of his own past association with Epstein, even as House Democrats push for the release of Justice Department records.
He accused Democrats of weaponising the issue ahead of a vote Republicans have been trying to block. “This is another Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, with all arrows pointing to the Democrats,” Trump wrote on Friday.
Clinton, Summers, Hoffman among those under spotlight
Alongside Clinton, who socialised with Epstein in the early 2000s, Trump said he also wants federal investigators to examine the late financier’s connections to former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, a major Democratic donor.
Clinton flew several times on Epstein’s private jet prior to his 2008 conviction, while Summers and Hoffman are known to have interacted with him socially. All three have since expressed regret over their association.
JPMorgan reiterates regret over financial relationship
Trump also named JPMorgan and Chase in his request for a federal probe. The bank, which previously managed Epstein’s accounts, distanced itself again on Friday.
“We regret any association we had with the man but did not help him commit his heinous acts. We ended our relationship with him years before his arrest on sex trafficking charges,” JPMorgan said in an emailed statement to Reuters.
The bank paid $290 million in 2023 to victims of Epstein as part of a settlement over allegations it ignored warnings and red flags because he was a lucrative client. JPMorgan did not admit wrongdoing.