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President Donald Trump said that those asking about the late financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking case should direct their attention to former President Bill Clinton and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers.
Trump’s remarks come a day after U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met with Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell in Florida amid heightened scrutiny about the case after the Trump administration announced it would not unseal investigation materials concerning Epstein.
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“You ought to be speaking about Larry Summers. You ought to be speaking about some of his friends that are hedge fund guys,” Trump told reporters Friday while departing for Scotland. “They’re all over the place. You ought to be speaking about Bill Clinton.”
Trump then accused Clinton of visiting Epstein’s private island the financier used as a home base for his sex-trafficking operations. Trump said he’d never visited the island before.
Meanwhile, Clinton has also said he has never visited the island either. In his new memoir “Citizen,” released in 2024, Clinton said he’d never gone to the island and that he wished he’d never even met Epstein in the first place.
Spokespeople for Summers and Clinton did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
Summers previously served as treasury secretary for Clinton, as well as the director of the National Economic Council for former President Barack Obama.
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Trump’s comments come amid outrage from some conservatives after the Department of Justice and the FBI announced in July the agencies will not release new documents from the Epstein sex trafficking case, and that their review into Epstein is closed.
Additionally, the agencies said that they did not detect a list of sexual predators with ties to Epstein, and concluded there were no new people who could face charges.
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Trump has sought to quash curiosity about the Epstein case and said that no credible information is left to share with the public.
“He’s dead for a long time. He was never a big factor in terms of life. I don’t understand what the interest or what the fascination is. I really don’t, and the credible information’s been given,” Trump said July 14.
Blanche said after his Thursday meeting with Maxwell that he would meet with her again on Friday and would share more details later.
“Today, I met with Ghislaine Maxwell, and I will continue my interview of her tomorrow,” Blanche said in a Thursday post on X. “The Department of Justice will share additional information about what we learned at the appropriate time.”
Meanwhile, Maxwell has been convicted on charges including sex trafficking of a minor and is serving a 20-year sentence.
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