Bill Clinton responds after Trump orders DOJ to probe Epstein ties

On Friday, Donald Trump ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi and the DOJ to investigate Epstein's 'involvement and relationship' with Clinton
UPDATED NOV 16, 2025
Bill Clinton's spokesperson said Donald Trump's order was 'noise meant to distract from election losses, backfiring shutdowns' (Getty Images)
Bill Clinton's spokesperson said Donald Trump's order was 'noise meant to distract from election losses, backfiring shutdowns' (Getty Images)


WASHINGTON, DC: Bill Clinton’s spokesperson, Angel Urena, addressed the renewed scrutiny surrounding the former president’s past association with Jeffrey Epstein.

The House Oversight Committee recently released three excerpted emails involving Epstein, his convicted accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, and writer Michael Wolff.

The statement from Clinton's spokesperson came after President Donald Trump ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Justice Department to investigate Epstein's ties to Clinton, as well as his Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, venture capitalist Reid Hoffman, and the bank JPMorgan Chase.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 11: Bill Clinton attends An Evening With President Bill Clinton And James Patterson:
Bill Clinton attends An Evening With President Bill Clinton And James Patterson: 'The First Gentleman' at 92NY on June 11, 2025, in New York City. (Photo by Rob Kim/Getty Images)

Bill Clinton's spokesperson responds to Trump's order

Taking to X (formerly Twitter), Bill Clinton’s spokesperson wrote, "Bill Clinton had no involvement and was unaware of any wrongdoing," adding that everything else is simply “noise meant to distract from election losses, backfiring shutdowns, and who knows what else.”

Trump on Friday, November 14, claimed, "He never visited Epstein's infamous island, Little Saint James, but former president Bill Clinton visited the island 28 times."



However, the newly released emails reveal that Epstein dismissed a victim’s claims about Clinton being on the island. He wrote, “Clinton was NEVER EVER there, never,” adding that this “punches a hole” in the victim’s allegations against “Dershowitz” and “Andrew.” 



Clinton has faced scrutiny for his broader ties to Epstein, including visits from Epstein to the White House and his acknowledgment of trips on his jet.

Clinton has consistently denied any knowledge of Epstein’s abuses. In 2019, his Urena posted on X, “President Clinton knows nothing about the terrible crimes, Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to in Florida some years ago, or those he has been recently charged in New York.”

Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in Cambridge, MA on 9/8/04. Epstein is connected with several prominent people including politicians, actors and academics. Epstein was convicted of having sex with an underaged woman. (Photo by Rick Friedman/Rick Friedman Photography/Corbis via Getty Images)
Jeffrey Epstein in Cambridge, MA on 9/8/04 (Rick Friedman/Rick Friedman Photography/Corbis via Getty Images)

Trump says all arrows in Epstein case point to the Democrats

U.S. President Donald Trump takes a question from a reporter in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on March 3, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump announced that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, one of the largest manufacturers of semiconductor chips, plans to invest $100 billion in new manufacturing facilities in the United States. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
President Donald Trump takes a question from a reporter in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on March 3, 2025, in Washington, DC (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

On Friday, Donald Trump took to social media to once again frame the emails as a distraction. 

He compared the situation to the investigation into Russian election interference in 2016, calling the emails a “hoax” and stating, “This is another Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, with all arrows pointing to the Democrats.”



He also sought to shift scrutiny of his actions onto Democrats and financial institutions, arguing that they had deeper relationships with Epstein than he did.

"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, J.P. Morgan, Chase, and many other people and institutions, to determine what was going on with them, and him," he wrote. 

“Epstein was a Democrat, and he is the Democrat’s problem, not the Republican’s problem!” Trump wrote in another post, before adding, “Don’t waste your time with Trump. I have a Country to run!"

Bondi responded within hours on X, thanking Trump for his request and noting that she had assigned US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton to lead the probe.

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