After the Division of Justice launched hundreds of recordsdata associated to convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein in a tranche on Friday that included numerous decades-old images of former President Invoice Clinton, a spokesperson for Clinton on Monday known as on all the recordsdata referring to Clinton to be launched.
In a press release, Clinton spokesperson Angel Ureña accused the DOJ of utilizing the selective launch of Epstein paperwork to indicate wrongdoing the place there may be none, difficult the division to right away launch any remaining supplies mentioning or exhibiting Invoice Clinton within the recordsdata.
Ureña, a spokesperson for Clinton, wrote on Monday that the content material and methodology of how the Division of Justice has launched recordsdata makes it “clear” that “somebody or one thing is being protected.”
“We have no idea whom, what or why,” Ureña wrote. “However we do know this: We’d like no such safety.”
“Accordingly, we name on President Trump to direct Legal professional Normal Bondi to right away launch any remaining supplies referring to, mentioning, or containing {a photograph} of Invoice Clinton,” Ureña added.
Ureña alleged that if the Division of Justice doesn’t achieve this, it could affirm suspicions that the Division is releasing knowledge selectively to “to indicate wrongdoing about people who’ve already been repeatedly cleared by the exact same Division of Justice, over a few years, beneath Presidents and Attorneys Normal of each events.”
The initial release of the files on Friday contained quite a few outdated pictures of Epstein touring with Clinton, together with footage of Clinton lounging in a jacuzzi and one in all him swimming with Epstein affiliate Ghislaine Maxwell, who’s serving a 20-year jail sentence after her 2021 conviction for intercourse trafficking of minors and different offenses.
The photographs had been launched with none context or background info.
On Friday, Ureña had written in a statement, “The White Home hasn’t been hiding these recordsdata for months solely to dump them late on a Friday to guard Invoice Clinton. That is about shielding themselves from what comes subsequent, or from what they’re going to attempt to conceal perpetually. To allow them to launch as many grainy 20-plus-year-old pictures as they need, however this is not about Invoice Clinton. By no means has, by no means will probably be.”
The Division of Justice has defended each its course of and timing in releasing the recordsdata, saying in a press release on Sunday that greater than 200 attorneys had been working “across the clock” to overview recordsdata for launch.
Former President Invoice Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein seem on this picture launched by the Division of Justice in Washington, December 19, 2025.
U.S. Justice Division
“The Division of Justice is dedicated to transparency and redacting solely what’s legally required,” the division mentioned in a press release. “The Division is required by legislation to redact figuring out details about the victims, minors, or potential victims, in addition to privileged materials. NO redactions have been or will probably be made to guard well-known people or politically uncovered individuals.”
A legislation signed by President Donald Trump in November required all of the recordsdata associated to federal investigations into the disgraced financier to be launched by Friday, Dec. 19. The division has been releasing recordsdata since that deadline, however didn’t totally meet that deadline in releasing all Epstein-related supplies, and what has been launched to this point is a fraction of the recordsdata.
The DOJ has confronted backlash from victims and from lawmakers for the sluggish rollout of the recordsdata. Deputy Legal professional Normal Todd Blanche, in an look on Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press with Kristen Welker, defended the division’s sluggish launch of the recordsdata, saying they wished to proceed to overview paperwork to “shield victims.”
“It is quite simple and really clear: the statute additionally requires us to guard victims, and so the rationale why we’re nonetheless reviewing paperwork and nonetheless persevering with our course of is solely that — to guard victims… we’re going by way of a really methodical course of with a whole bunch of attorneys taking a look at each single doc and ensuring that victims’ names and any of the data from victims is protected and redacted,” Blanche mentioned.
A few of Epstein’s victims and their attorneys have additionally mentioned redactions within the recordsdata launched haven’t been adequate and that some victims’ identities have been uncovered. On Sunday, two attorneys who characterize greater than 200 survivors of Epstein and his convicted co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell told ABC News that they’d been listening to from shoppers who’ve seen their names or different figuring out info in un-redacted paperwork within the DOJ’s disclosure.
Clinton has not been accused of wrongdoing and denies having any information of Epstein’s crimes. No Epstein survivor or affiliate has ever made a public allegation of wrongdoing or inappropriate habits by Clinton in connection together with his prior relationship with Epstein.
The previous president traveled with Epstein a number of occasions, in keeping with flight logs from Epstein’s non-public jets that had been made public throughout civil litigation in opposition to Epstein. These logs confirmed that Clinton and his entourage had taken 4 worldwide sojourns in 2002 and 2003 on the financier’s Boeing 727 to places together with Bangkok, Brunei, Rwanda, Russia, China and elsewhere.
President Donald Trump, on Monday, was requested whether or not he was stunned by the variety of pictures of Clinton within the recordsdata.
Trump mentioned he has all the time gotten together with Invoice Clinton and added, “I hate to see pictures come out of him, however that is what the Democrats, principally Democrats and a few unhealthy Republicans are asking for. So, they’ve given their pictures of me too. Everyone was pleasant with this man [Epstein]. Both pleasant or not pleasant, however you recognize, he was round. He was throughout Palm Seashore and different locations.”
(Trump himself has denied having any information of Epstein’s alleged crimes and mentioned on the time of Epstein’s arrest in 2019 that they hadn’t spoken in 15 years; he has additionally spoken about kicking Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago.)
Democrats on the Home Oversight Committee have launched further pictures from the property of Jeffrey Epstein, together with ones of Donald Trump and Invoice Clinton.
Home Oversight Committee Democrats
The Democrats on the Home Oversight Committee released photos earlier this month, previous to the Division of Justice’s releases, that additionally confirmed Epstein or Maxwell with Clinton and others, together with Trump, Woody Allen, Invoice Gates, Steve Bannon, former Prince Andrew and billionaire Richard Branson, amongst others.
The context, timeframe and site of the pictures are unclear.
ABC Information’ James Hill and Katherine Faulders contributed to this report.
