Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accuses the Trump administration of a “cover-up” in its handling of the Epstein files, while the president claims the files “completely exonerated” him and “brought in” the Clintons.
“Get the files out,” Clinton told the BBC on Monday from Berlin, where she was attending the World Forum. “They’re doing it slowly.”
Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton, is mentioned and depicted numerous times in the Epstein files. Both Clintons have denied any contemporaneous knowledge of Epstein’s crimes, and survivors and authorities have not accused them of wrongdoing.
Over the weekend, Clinton reiterated her call for transparency during her speech at the Munich Security Conference.
She called the contents of the Epstein files “horrific” and demanded their full release.
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“It’s something that needs to be completely transparent,” she said on a panel.
“I have been advocating for many, many years to put everything out there so that people can not only see what’s inside, but also, if necessary, hold people accountable,” she added. “We’ll see what happens.”
Clinton’s comments riled Trump, who claimed the Epstein dossiers were biased and had essentially “exonerated” him.
“I have nothing to hide,” the president said This was told by journalists on Monday. “I have been exonerated. I have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. They went in hoping they would find it and they found the exact opposite. I have been completely exonerated.”
Of the Clintons, Trump said the files “brought them in” and that Clinton’s recent comments in Germany were a sign of “Trump derangement syndrome.”
“They are involved and many other Democrats are involved,” he claimed.
Both Clintons will testify before Congress later this month after initially indicating they would oppose what they called “invalid and legally unenforceable” subpoenas in the Republican-led Epstein investigation in the House of Representatives.
“We will show up, but we think it would be better to do it in public,” Clinton said in her BBC interview, arguing that she and her husband were being used as a “shiny object” to deflect blame from the Trump administration.
The Justice Department said in a letter to lawmakers over the weekend that it had released all relevant data it could to comply with last year’s bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act, which President Trump signed after months of war with members of his own party who supported the bill.
Lawmakers insist the Trump administration continues to fail to meet its obligations under the bill.
“Your government is withholding information,” said Rep. Nancy Mace, one of the bill’s supporters. wrote at X on Saturday.
The Trump administration has released about two percent of the data that investigators have described as being in their possession on Epstein, according to analysis and internal emails obtained by British broadcaster Channel 4 News.
In addition to this reported shortage of releases, lawmakers have also accused the DOJ of “muddying the waters” by releasing dozens of high-profile figures whose names appear only tangentially in the files, such as people mentioned in news articles shared by the deceased sex criminal.
“To have Janis Joplin, who died when Epstein was 17, on the same list as Larry Nassar, who went to prison for sexual abuse of hundreds of young women and child pornography, with no clarification on how either came to be mentioned in the files, is absurd,” Rep. Ro Khanna, one of the lawmakers who led the Epstein expose, said on X.
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