Bill Clinton gets cozy with Epstein as files are released by DOJ

A trove of documents from the Jeffrey Epstein files has been released by the Department of Justice.

The Daily Mail is currently reviewing them and providing updates.

The Department of Justice has released a large number of the Epstein files, but Americans have already been blocked from accessing them because of network issues.

Former President Bill Clinton was pictured spending time with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell in the newly released files.

Clinton was also pictured with frolicking in a hot tub with Maxwell.

Arick Fudali, an attorney representing 11 Epstein victims, slammed the Justice Department for not planning to release all of the documents by tonight’s deadline.

‘It’s not surprising that they intend to sort of stretch this out, elongate this process, and sort of trickle documents throughout the next coming weeks. That’s really not acceptable,’ Fudali told CNN.

‘As a civil litigation attorney who does a lot of civil trials, if I miss a deadline set by the judge, that’s a really big deal. And it’s very frustrating to see sort of these laws and these rules just be bended without really any consequence.

‘I’m very concerned that even when they claim that all the documents have been revealed, that they may not be.’

Fudali explained what information he will be looking for once the documents come out.

‘What we’re looking for when they do finally come out is really three things. The first, of course, is did anyone and is there evidence of anyone who actually co-abused with Jeffrey Epstein,’ he said.

‘Two, who was there, who enabled, facilitated, knew what was going on and continue to fill, facilitate and enable Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes. And the third is who continued to associate with him after 2008.’

Jeffrey Epstein wrote a paranoid email to himself months before his death rambling about Donald Trump, previously released documents showed.

The disgraced pedophile billionaire claimed that the President had often visited his home in Palm Beach, in the email sent to himself in February 2019.

Donald Trump once called Jeffrey Epstein a ‘terrific guy,’ but changed his tune over the years after the disgraced financier was charged by federal prosecutors in New York for sex trafficking.

The two were friends throughout the 1980s and 90s, and were frequently photographed together out in the social scene.

However, two years later the pair allegedly had a falling out over a property fight.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche insisted that Donald Trump did not order the Justice Department to redact his name from the Epstein files.

‘There’s no effort to hold anything back because there’s the name Donald J. Trump, or anybody else’s name – Bill Clinton’s name, Reid Hoffman’s name. There’s no effort to hold back or not hold back because of that,’ Blanche told ABC News.

‘I would give the order. President Trump has certainly said from the beginning that he expects all files that can be released to be released, and that’s exactly what we’re doing.’

California Governor Gavin Newsom’s press office questioned if the Trump administration is hiding something in the Epstein files.

‘WHAT ARE TRUMP, BONDI, AND KASH HIDING!!’ the press office wrote on X.

‘RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.’

Donald Trump said he wouldn’t be taking questions during a White House event on lowering medicine prices with drug manufacturer executives.

The president insisted it was because he didn’t want to ‘spoil’ the event by allowing the media to ask ‘questions having to do with anything else.’

Notably, the event came the same day of the deadline for the Justice Department to release the long awaited Jeffrey Epstein files.

‘Nobody thought a thing like this was possible,’ Trump said of the deal struck to have drug companies sell their products to Americans for the same price as in Europe.

He continued: ‘And I think based on that, I won’t even take questions today, because there’s no way I can take questions that are anywhere comparable to what you just witnessed.’

By Nick Allen

Pam Bondi and the Justice Department could theoretically be held in contempt of Congress for missing the Epstein files release deadline.

Thousands of documents will not be ready for release by the deadline of midnight tonight set out by law.

Last month, Jonathan Entin, a retired law professor from Case Western Reserve University, told KSBW that Congress could theoretically start a process to hold the department in contempt.

But the move would be very complex because the breach of the law would usually be referred to the Justice Department itself to pursue.

Entin said: ‘There’s an obvious conflict there, and there may be workarounds to get some kind of a special counsel appointed, but that’s not going to be so straightforward either.’

It would also be unlikely to begin while Republicans maintain control of the House, although that could change after the midterms.

Outgoing Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene called on the Justice Department to release all of the Epstein files.

‘My goodness, what is in the Epstein files?’ she wrote on X.

‘Release all the files. It’s literally the law.’