Trump asks DOJ to probe Jeffrey Epstein dealings with Clinton, JPMorgan

President Donald Trump said Friday he asked: Ministry of Justice J to investigate relations between notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and former President Bill ClintonPMorgan Trackingformer Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, billionaire tech investor Reid Hoffman and others.

Trump’s statement comes as he faces renewed pressure over his past friendship with Epstein, who killed himself after being arrested on child sex trafficking charges in August 2019.

One Real Social post“Democrats are using the Epstein Hoax to get away with the disastrous SHUTDOWN and all their other failures,” Trump said.

Therefore, he wrote: “I will ask AG Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice, along with our great patriots at the FBI, to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s involvement and involvement with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, JP Morgan, Chase, and many other individuals and institutions, to determine what happened to them and to him.

“This is another Russia, Russia, Russia Scam with all the arrows pointing towards the Democrats,” Trump wrote. Records show that these men and many others spent much of their lives with Epstein and on his ‘Island.’ Stay tuned!!!”

Trump’s post comes two days after he hosted business leaders, including JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, for a dinner at the White House.

A spokesperson for JPMorgan told CNBC on Friday: “The government had damning information on this matter. [Epstein’s] “He said that he committed a crime and did not share it with us or other banks.”

“We regret our association with the man, but we did not help him commit his heinous acts,” spokeswoman Patricia Wexler said. “We ended our relationship with him years before he was arrested on sex trafficking charges.”

Epstein was a longtime client of JPMorgan and was also friends with former JPMorgan executive Jes Staley.

In 2023, JPMorgan settled separate lawsuits filed by Epstein victims and the U.S. Virgin Islands government that accused the bank of facilitating and benefiting from Epstein’s sex trafficking of young women, without admitting wrongdoing. The bank agreed to pay $290 million to the victim group and $75 million to the USVI.

CNBC requested comment on Trump’s post from Clinton, Summers and Hoffman, as well as the White House and Justice Department.

Emails released this week by the House Oversight Committee show Epstein and others talking about Trump.

One 2018 email thread “I know how dirty Donald is,” Epstein wrote about Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen pleading guilty to charges related to hush-money payments on Trump’s behalf.

In another thread the same year, Epstein wrote of Trump: “This is crazy. Because I’m the one who can take him down.”

Trump also faces an upcoming vote by the full House of Representatives on a petition demanding the release of criminal investigative files on Epstein, which the Justice Department has refused to make public despite previous promises by Attorney General Pam Bondi and other Trump administration officials.

Trump has denied knowing about Epstein’s decades-long abuse of underage girls and young women.

The two men had a falling out in the early 2000s.

The email correspondence released Wednesday by the House Oversight Committee includes an April email in which Epstein told author Michael Wolff that Trump “knew about the girls.” The email does not explain what Epstein meant by this

In another email, written in April 2011, Epstein told his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell: “I want you to understand that the dog that doesn’t bark is trump.”

In the same thread, Epstein said there was a person whose name was redacted in the email but whom lawmakers described as a victim of Trump “spending hours at my house.”

“He wasn’t mentioned even once,” Epstein added.

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