Former President Bill Clinton issued a sassy response taking aim at Donald Trump after he was pressed about his repeated appearance in the latest batch of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Clinton featured heavily throughout the hundreds of thousands of pages dumped by the Department of Justice on Friday.
The documents were divulged without dates, context, or background details and there has been no suggestion that those pictured are guilty of any crimes.
However Clinton, who has denied any illegal activity, is under mounting scrutiny to explain his consistent appearance in the files, which included images of him swimming in a pool with convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
The 42nd president’s team hastily released a statement Friday addressing Clinton’s involvement with the late pedophile claiming the White House is ‘shielding themselves’ with the way in which the files were released.
When contacted by the Daily Mail Saturday morning about the latest images, Clinton’s team simply replied: ‘Have you seen the Trump photos?’.
The president does feature in the latest Epstein cache, although most of the images have previously surfaced and his appearances are minimal, a preliminary review by the Daily Mail revealed. Trump has never been accused of any wrongdoing.
It comes as the president has remained silent on the files dump and instead chose to talk about his wife Melania’s underwear during a rally in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
Former President Bill Clinton is seen in an image with a woman as part of the Epstein files that were released on Friday
The only photos of Trump that appeared in the file was an image take of Trump (bottom left-hand corner) in one of Epstein’s drawers during the FBI raid on his townhouse in New York City
Instead, Trump spoke about his wife Melania’s underwear at a rally in Rocky Mount, North Carolina on Friday night
‘In my first term I was the hunted. I had bigger problems. I had these animals trying to attack me at Mar-a-Lago,’ Trump said as his supporters watched on.
‘They went into my wife’s closet, and I’ll say this. Number one, it’s very bad, but it sounds a little strange. They looked at her drawers. You have drawer, and then you have drawer. They looked at both,’ he continued, making hand motions that depicted a furniture drawer and another that seemingly described underwear.
The crowd chuckled as Trump added: ‘And she’s a very meticulous person… everything is perfect. Her undergarments, sometimes referred to as panties, are folded perfect. Wrapped, they’re like so perfect, I said that’s beautiful.’
Online the president continued to turn a blind eye and in a post to Truth Social Friday night, and commended Jake Paul for doing ‘really well,’ even though he was battered by former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua.
‘On the plane I just got to watch the Jake Paul Fight, and he did really well, especially as a display of GREAT Courage against a very talented and large Anthony Joshua,’ Trump wrote.
‘Fantastic Entertainment, but Kudos to Jake for his Stamina, and frankly, Ability, against a much bigger man!’
Many people thought of the Netflix-streamed fight as a ‘farcical distraction’ from the release of the Epstein files.
‘Jake Paul fight was a distraction from the Epstein files,’ an X user wrote.
The president continued to turn a blind eye and in a post to Truth Social Friday night, and commended Jake Paul for doing ‘really well,’ even though he was battered by former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua
Another commented: ‘Crazy how the goys [sic] got distracted by watching that Jake Paul slop instead of the Epstein files.’
‘Very ironic that Jake Paul and Andrew Tate’s fight being held the same weekend that the Epstein files were supposed to be released. A+ distraction. They think we’re all dumb as rocks,’ a user posted.
Democrat Rep. Robert Garcia told CNN that the release amounts to only about 10 percent of Epstein-related documents.
In response to the release of the files, the White House told the Daily Mail the president’s administration ‘has done more for the victims than Democrats ever have.’
‘The Trump Administration is the most transparent in history,’ White House Spokesperson Abigail Jackson said.
‘By releasing thousands of pages of documents, cooperating with the House Oversight Committee’s subpoena request, and President Trump recently calling for further investigations into Epstein’s Democrat friends, the Trump Administration has done more for the victims than Democrats ever have.
‘And while President Trump is delivering on his promises, Democrats like Hakeem Jeffries and Stacey Plaskett have yet to explain why they were soliciting money and meetings from Epstein after he was a convicted sex offender. The American people deserve answers.’
It was previously reported Jeffries, the Democrat minority leader, had relations with Epstein after an email allegedly revealed the billionaire pedophile was invited to dinner for a fundraiser.
But when asked about it, Jeffries said: ‘I have no recollection of the email.’
The alleged Jeffries email was sent to Epstein by a Democrat aligned consulting firm that worked for him in 2013.
Trump is seen arriving on Air Force One at Florida’s Palm Beach International Airport on Saturday
‘I’ve never had a conversation with him, never met him, know nothing about him other than the extreme things that he’s been convicted of doing,’ he told CNN.
Plaskett has also been reported to have had ties with Epstein, as documents previously revealed she texted the late financer multiple times during a congressional hearing, according to court documents seen by the Daily Mail.
Plaskett, who represents the U.S. Virgin Islands in Congress, confirmed in a deposition that she went to Epstein’s home in 2018 to ask him for campaign contributions, including potentially for the Democratic Party.
Trump, meanwhile, insisted about Epstein: ‘All of his friends were Democrats.’
The president slammed Hillary Clinton during his speech, calling her ‘nasty.’
‘Hillary Clinton was nasty… whew, I wouldn’t want to go home to her,’ he said as the crowd laughed.
‘She was nasty. Remember? She was a nasty… person. I was gonna use a B-word, my wife would not be happy. My wife always says please, please don’t use foul language.’
