President Trump revealed that he does not like the Justice Department’s release of embarrassing photos of a half-naked Bill Clinton swimming with late sex predator Jeffrey Epstein’s madam, Ghislaine Maxwell.
“No, I don’t like the pictures of Bill Clinton being shown,” he told reporters Monday. “I don’t like the pictures of other people being shown. I think it’s a terrible thing.”
“But you probably have pictures being exposed of other people that innocently met Jeffrey Epstein years ago.”
The DOJ has been forced to release the Epstein files due to a law Trump signed last month amid mounting political pressure. The Epstein Files Transparency Act had cleared the House and Senate nearly unanimously, with only one vote against it.
The law gave the DOJ a deadline of Dec. 19 — last Friday — to release all the files with redactions to protect the notorious pedophile’s victims.
While the Trump administration released thousands of pages of files, many more remain sealed, and top officials have said they will be released on a rolling basis.
One of the headline-making disclosures was the photo of Clinton in a jacuzzi with Maxwell. Another picture showed him next to Epstein and Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger.
Notably, the disclosures had few new images of Trump. There was one photo of him in a batch on Friday that the DOJ scrubbed from its website due to concerns from several of Epstein’s victims, according to US Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.
Clinton’s team fired back at the Trump administration, highlighting how there’s a deluge of documents still outstanding.
“What the Department of Justice has released so far, and the manner in which it did so, makes one thing clear: someone or something is being protected,” Clinton’s rep Angel Ureña needled Trump in a statement.
“We do not know whom, what or why. But we do know this: We need no such protection.”
Trump, who is pictured in several publicly released photos with Epstein, stressed that “you can ruin the reputation of somebody” by disclosing files showing there was an association with the late sex monster.
“I believe they gave over 100,000 pages of documents,” Trump said of the disclosures. “And there is tremendous backlash, it’s an interesting question, because a lot of people are very angry that pictures are being released of other people that really had nothing to do with Epstein.”
“A lot of people are very angry that this continues.”
Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), who led The Epstein Files Transparency Act, have revealed that they are mulling whether to impeach US Attorney General Pam Bondi over the DOJ’s failure to meet the Dec. 19 deadline.
