Donald Trump Responds to Shocking Epstein Emails by Asking DOJ to Seek Evidence on Bill Clinton By Greta Bjornson

President Donald Trump is calling in federal investigators after a trove of emails sent by Jeffrey Epstein were released by the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, Nov. 12.

Trump — who was mentioned by Epstein multiple times in the emails — shared a lengthy statement on Truth Social on Friday, Nov. 14, where he accused Democrats of using the shocking emails to distract from the federal government’s reopening after a historically long shutdown.

Seemingly removing himself from the narrative, Trump added that he is ordering Attorney General Pam Bondi to have the Justice Department investigate Epstein’s relationships with multiple other high-profile individuals and institutions.

“Now that the Democrats are using the Epstein Hoax, involving Democrats, not Republicans, to try and deflect from their disastrous SHUTDOWN, and all of their other failures,” he wrote, “I will be asking A.G. Pam Bondi, and the Department of Justice, together with our great patriots at the FBI, to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s involvement and relationship with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, J.P. Morgan, Chase, and many other people and institutions, to determine what was going on with them, and him.”

Trump, 79, then claimed, “This is another Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, with all arrows pointing to the Democrats. Records show that these men, and many others, spent large portions of their life with Epstein, and on his ‘Island.’ Stay tuned!!!”

Within hours, Bondi posted on X that she had assigned U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton, of the Southern District of New York, to lead an investigation “with urgency and integrity.”

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During Clinton’s presidency, Epstein — then a well-connected wealth manager — visited the White House many times, while Clinton traveled on Epstein’s private jet on multiple occasions. The former president has not been linked to any crimes committed by Epstein.

In one email sent by Epstein on March 6, 2011, he claimed “Clinton was never on the island,” seemingly referring to Little Saint James, the island where he was accused of sex trafficking underage girls.

Clinton’s spokesperson said in a statement shared with PEOPLE in 2024, “it’s been nearly 20 years since President Clinton last had contact with Epstein,” and referred PEOPLE to a 2019 statement that reads, in part, “President Clinton knows nothing about the terrible crimes” committed by Epstein.

In an earlier post also shared on Truth Social Friday morning, Trump targeted Democrats, accusing the party of “doing everything in their withering power to push the Epstein Hoax again, despite the DOJ releasing 50,000 pages of documents, in order to deflect from all of their bad policies and losses, especially the SHUTDOWN EMBARRASSMENT, where their party is in total disarray, and has no idea what to do.”

He went on the attack the “Weak Republicans” who “have fallen into their clutches because they are soft and foolish.”

“Epstein was a Democrat, and he is the Democrat’s problem, not the Republican’s problem!” wrote Trump, who was a Democrat from 2001-2009, before naming the same individuals he would soon order the Justice Department to investigate.

“Ask Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman, and Larry Summers about Epstein, they know all about him, don’t waste your time with Trump,” he wrote. “I have a Country to run!”

While Trump is demanding the public and lawmakers shift their focus from him and onto others in the Epstein case, the president was repeatedly mentioned by the disgraced financier in the approximately 20,000 pages of documents from the Epstein estate released by the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday.

In one email, Epstein allegedly told his personal confidante Ghislaine Maxwell, “I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump. [Redacted victim’s name] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned.”

He also allegedly wrote to Trump biographer Michael Wolff that “of course” Trump “knew about the girls.”

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In a statement shared with PEOPLE on Wednesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed, “The ‘unnamed victim’ referenced in these emails is the late Virginia Giuffre,” referring to the former Mar-a-Lago employee and Epstein victim who died by suicide in April.

Leavitt said Giuffre “repeatedly said President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever and ‘couldn’t have been friendlier’ to her in their limited interactions.”

“The fact remains that President Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club decades ago for being a creep to his female employees, including Giuffre,” she continued. “These stories are nothing more than bad-faith efforts to distract from President Trump’s historic accomplishments, and any American with common sense sees right through this hoax and clear distraction from the government opening back up again.”