{"id":358990,"date":"2025-12-20T00:20:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T00:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/358990\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T00:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T00:20:13","slug":"epstein-files-release-highlights-clinton-makes-scant-reference-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/358990\/","title":{"rendered":"Epstein files release highlights Clinton, makes scant reference to Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Justice Department \u200creleased hundreds of thousands of pages of documents related to the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Friday that made scant reference to US President Donald Trump but extensively featured Democratic former president Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The release was \u200dintended to comply with a law overwhelmingly passed by Congress in November that mandated the disclosure of all Epstein files, despite the Republican president\u2019s months-long effort to keep them sealed.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump for years had promoted conspiracy theories about Epstein, but the case has turned into a political liability for him since his return to the White House in January.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It was not immediately clear how substantive the new materials were, given that many Epstein-related documents have previously been made public since his 2019 death in jail, which was ruled a suicide. Reuters is in the process of reviewing them.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The material included evidence from several law enforcement investigations into Epstein, along with photos \u2060of Clinton, long scorned by Trump\u2019s Republicans. But they appeared to include few if any photos of Trump or documents mentioning him, despite Trump and Epstein\u2019s well-publicised friendship in the 1990s and early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former US president Bill Clinton swims in a pool in this image released on Friday. Photo: US Justice Department via Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/e8044141-344a-4e43-8247-4f5cbca4f8ea_46f70374.jpg\" title=\"Former US president Bill Clinton swims in a pool in this image released on Friday. Photo: US Justice Department via Reuters\"\/>Former US president Bill Clinton swims in a pool in this image released on Friday. Photo: US Justice Department via Reuters<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The absence of references to Trump was notable given that pictures and documents related to him have trickled out of previous Epstein releases for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Justice Department \u200creleased hundreds of thousands of pages of documents related to the late financier and convicted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[64443,23,791,46961,1340,12,49590,31684,14825,5679,16675,43052,3,52201,73419,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-358990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-adam-schiff","tag-america","tag-bill-clinton","tag-chuck-schumer","tag-congress","tag-donald-trump","tag-epstein-files","tag-ghislaine-maxwell","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-jpmorgan","tag-justice-department","tag-larry-summers","tag-news","tag-prince-andrew","tag-steve-bannon","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}