 "Bill Clinton's team accuses White House of making him a 'scapegoat' in the Epstein Files saga")
As the Epstein Files airs the dirty laundry of former US President Bill Clinton, his spokesperson said that the current White House is using the Democratic leader as a ‘scapegoat’. The remarks came late on Friday after pictures of the former president with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as with a young woman in a pool, were included as part of a congressionally ordered release of government files by the US Department of Justice.
“The White House hasn’t been hiding these files for months only to dump them late on a Friday to protect Bill Clinton,” the spokesperson said in a statement on X. “This is about shielding themselves from what comes next, or from what they’ll try and hide forever. So they can release as many grainy 20-plus-year-old photos as they want, but this isn’t about Bill Clinton. Never has, never will be,” the statement further read.
— Angel Ureña (@angelurena) December 19, 2025
The spokesperson went on to point out how the current White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles said that US President Donald Trump was “wrong about Clinton,” referring to comments made by White House chief of staff to Vanity Fair in which Wiles acknowledged that Clinton had not been on Epstein’s Caribbean island despite repeated claims by Trump to the contrary.
On-the-record statement from White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. pic.twitter.com/M9oTj0XlKK
— Angel Ureña (@angelurena) December 16, 2025
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The former president has long maintained that he cut ties with Epstein back in 2005, before the disgraced financier pleaded guilty to solicitation of a minor in Florida. Clinton’s spokesperson, Angel Ureña, came into a defensive mode in her statement.
“There are two types of people here. The first group knew nothing and cut Epstein off before his crimes came to light. The second group continued relationships with him after. We’re in the first. No amount of stalling by people in the second group will change that. Everyone, especially MAGA, expects answers, not scapegoats," she said.
The photographs released by the DoJ on Friday showed Clinton in an underground swimming pool with Maxwell and a woman whose face has been redacted. A separate photograph also showed the former president at a dinner with Mick Jagger, Epstein and other public figures.
The picture of Clinton in a swimming pool was later posted on X by the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, with the caption “Oh my!” and a red-faced emoji. “Slick Willy! @BillClinton just chillin, without a care in the world. Little did he know…,” Steven Cheung, the White House communications director, posted to X.
Oh my! 😳 https://t.co/QDTrI9pNhE
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) December 19, 2025
Epstein’s association with Clinton
According to the DoJ documents, the convicted sex felon visited the White House 17 times during the early years of the Clinton presidency. The former president later travelled with Epstein on the financier’s private jet in the years after he left office in 2001. This included his trip to Asia and Africa for the Clinton Global Initiative.
However, it is pertinent to note that Clinton has never been formally accused of any wrongdoing in connection with Epstein. Despite this, Trump has repeatedly made insinuations about the relationship between Clinton and Epstein. Last month, he called for the DoJ and FBI to “investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s involvement and relationship with Bill Clinton," part of a long-running campaign to characterise the Epstein scandal as an issue uniquely connected to Democrats.
The photo dump released by the DoJ on Friday largely featured both Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state and presidential candidate. The couple are also scheduled to give depositions to the House oversight committee over their ties to Epstein.
The deposition in the case was originally scheduled for last week. It was eventually pushed to 13 and 14 January in light of the DoJ deadline to release the files. The committee’s chair, James Comer, has threatened to hold contempt proceedings if the couple do not sit for depositions on those dates, Politico reported.
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