Bill Clinton breaks silence on damning Epstein file photos with blistering accusation about Trump: Live updates

A spokesperson for former president Bill Clinton has addressed his name and pictures emerging in the Epstein files on Friday afternoon.

‘The White House hasn’t been hiding these files for months only to dump them late on a Friday to protect Bill Clinton,’ the spokesperson said.

‘This is about shielding themselves from what comes next, or from what they’ll try and hide forever.

‘So they can release as many grainy 20-plus-year-old photos as they want, but this isn’t about Bill Clinton. Never has, never will be.

‘Even Susie Wiles said Donald Trump was wrong about Bill Clinton,’ the spokesperson added, referencing Wiles’ recent interview with Vanity Fair in which she admitted ‘Trump was wrong’ about there being incriminating evidence against the former Democratic president in the files

‘There are two types of people here. The first group knew nothing and cut Epstein off before his crimes came to light. The second group continued relationships with him after. We’re in the first,’ Clinton’s spokesperson said.

‘No amount of stalling by people in the second group will change that. Everyone, especially MAGA, expects answers, not scapegoats.’

A trove of documents from the Jeffrey Epstein files has been released by the Department of Justice.

The Daily Mail is currently reviewing them and providing updates.

The team that reviewed and prepared the documents for public release included more than 200 Justice Department lawyers, according to a DOJ letter sent to Congress.

In that letter, obtained by the Associated Press, Deputy AG Todd Blanche said 187 lawyers from DOJ’s national security division reviewed all the files to determine what should be released.

Then, 25 attorneys, deemed a ‘quality control team,’ worked to ensure that information that personally identified victims was redacted.

Those lawyers came from the DOJ’s Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties and the Office of Information Policy.

Lawyers from the Southern District of New York also reviewed the material to confirm that personal information was appropriately redacted.

Marina Lacerda, one of the women who says she survived sexual assault by Epstein, beginning when she was 14 years old, said Friday she wanted to see greater transparency from the Justice Department and expressed frustration that all the files aren’t out yet.

‘Just put out the files,’ she said.

‘And stop redacting names that don’t need to be redacted.’

She said she was skeptical of the administration saying it’s aiming to be transparent.

‘In the beginning, they were calling us a hoax, right?’ she said. ‘Now they’re like, ‘‘We believe you, we’re gonna release the files,’’ but yet you still haven’t released the files and it’s not even fully transparent.’

Epstein purchased two books about erotic slavery in an Amazon receipt released on Friday.

One of the books was titled ‘Roadmaps for Erotic Servitude’, while he second was titled ‘Training with Miss Abernathy: A Workbook for Erotic Slaves and Their Owners’.

The blurb for the first book reads: ‘The author of Ties That Bind joins forces with a grateful slave to produce this gripping and personal account on the subject of consensual slavery.

‘Philosophical and intense, SlaveCraft dares to delve beneath the surface of D/s relationships and give us an intimate and revealing view from a rare perspective–that of a slave.’

Reposting a photo released from the Epstein document trove of former president Bill Clinton in a hot tub, Karoline Leavitt took to X to react: ‘Oh my!’

The letter reads, in part: ‘I hate that you got into these mess with these girls over the years.

‘You didn’t put a gun to their heads. But you have to watch it… all rich people are targets in this world.

‘People are going to come at you to get a dollar.’

Late CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite was featured in a series of pictures alongside Epstein released on Friday.

Cronkite’s name was also included in flight logs to Epstein’s private island released earlier this year.

The FBI discovered handwritten notes at one of Epstein’s properties listing the names of several billionaires and business magnates, the newly released DOJ files reveal.

Two pages of notes with ‘Jeffrey E. Epstein’ footers, photographed by FBI agents documenting the inside of his residences, list names including ‘Zuck’, ‘Thiel’, ‘Elon’, ‘Geffen’, ‘Rupert Murdoch’, ‘Slim’ and ‘Pritzker’.

It is unclear why their names appeared on the undated notes.

They appear to refer to billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, venture capitalist Peter Thiel, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, newspaper magnate Rupert Murdoch, Mexican oil baron Carlos Slim, and media mogul David Geffen.

They are among a batch of files in a briefcase, with a post-it note affixed saying ‘Important papers you asked me to hold on to when you were away’.