Donald Trump Claims He Can Provide a 'List' of Men Who 'Lived with' Jeffrey Epstein By Kyler Alvord

President Donald Trump suggested that he knows the other men who associated with Jeffrey Epstein while venting to reporters about the scrutiny pointed in his direction.

When asked a question about Ghislaine Maxwell’s meetings with the Justice Department this week, Trump, 79, said that he wishes journalists would stop talking about the Epstein case and start focusing on other issues — or at least other people who knew the convicted sex offender.

“People should really focus on how well the country is doing, or they should focus on the fact that Barack Hussein Obama led a coup,” he told reporters outside the White House on Friday, July 25, referencing unfounded treason allegations he recently lobbed at Obama amid the scrutiny over his handling of Epstein evidence.

The president continued by saying that if people are going to talk about Epstein, they should zero in on former Harvard President Larry Summers and former President Bill Clinton, whom he claimed were “really close friends” of the late financier.

“They don’t talk about them. They talk about me,” Trump griped. “I have nothing to do with the guy.”

Summers and Clinton, like Trump, knew Epstein — though all maintain that they were not involved with his crimes.

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The Wall Street Journal reported in 2023 that Epstein donated millions of dollars to Harvard while Summers was university president, and that Summers continued to meet with Epstein after he pleaded guilty to sex crimes in 2008. A spokesperson for Summers, now 70, told WSJ at the time that he “deeply regrets being in contact with Epstein after his conviction.”

On Thursday, Clinton was in the news alongside Trump for allegedly contributing a letter to Epstein’s 50th birthday book, according to WSJ. That was the same book that Trump allegedly drew a naked woman in, accompanied by a cryptic note that reportedly said, “May every day be another wonderful secret,” the paper claimed.

Trump is suing the Journal over its allegation, which he denies, and Clinton’s spokesperson pointed the newspaper to a past statement claiming that the former president, 78, cut ties with Epstein more than a decade before his arrest and was not aware of his crimes.

Despite Trump’s attempts to center the conversation around his achievements while speaking with reporters on Friday morning, Epstein and Maxwell were repeatedly brought up.

In each instance, Trump pointed fingers toward others who knew Epstein, at one point saying that the media should also hone in on Epstein’s friends who were “hedge fund guys” and adding that they’re “all over the place.”

In his final comments on the issue during Friday’s press gaggle, Trump offered to a reporter: “I’ll give you a list. These guys lived with Jeffrey Epstein, I sure as hell didn’t.”

PEOPLE reached out to reps for Summers and Clinton for comment about Trump’s remarks, and asked the White House for a copy of Trump’s list of Epstein associates.

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The barrage of questions about Trump’s relationship to Epstein come as the administration faces fierce bipartisan backlash over its decision not to release all files related to the financier’s 2019 sex trafficking case. The fallout over the Epstein files has rocked Trump’s second term and divided his own MAGA base, adding fuel to longstanding conspiracy theories about a high-level coverup of Epstein’s crimes.

Trump was linked to Epstein for years, but both men said their friendship came to an end, with Trump claiming he cut ties with Epstein before Epstein’s 2006 indictment for soliciting prostitution. After Epstein’s 2019 arrest, Trump said the two hadn’t spoken in 15 years.