Trump calls for probe of Epstein ties to JPMorgan, Bill Clinton
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The news: US President Donald Trump on Friday said he would ask the Justice Department to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to JPMorgan Chase and prominent Democrats including former president Bill Clinton, onetime treasury secretary Larry Summers and Democratic donor Reid Hoffman, after new emails spurred questions about the Trump’s own relationship with the disgraced financier.
The context: Trump, in a social media post on Friday, accused Democrats of using Epstein “to try and deflect from their disastrous SHUTDOWN, and all of their other failures.”
His post continues: “Records show that these men, and many others, spent large portions of their life with Epstein, and on his “Island.””
Trump said he will ask Attorney General Pam Bondi, the Department of Justice and the FBI to investigate Epstein’s involvement and relationship with the individuals and institutions.
Trump’s associations with the late disgraced Epstein flared up again this week after Congress release a trove of documents related to the sex offender. The documents included emails in which Epstein said Trump “knew about the girls” who were being trafficked and “spent hours at my house”.
Responding to Trump’s comments on Friday, a JPMorgan spokesperson said the bank “ended our relationship with him years before his arrest on sex trafficking charges.”
“The government had damning information about his crimes and failed to share it with us or other banks,” JPMorgan said. “We regret any association we had with the man, but did not help him commit his heinous acts.”
The sources: Truth Social, Bloomberg, CNN
