Trump directs DOJ to investigate Jeffrey Epstein's relationship with political and other figures

President Donald Trump said he will direct Attorney General Pam Bondi and the FBI to investigate former President Bill Clinton and others' relationship with the late convicted sex offender, a former friend of Trump's.

Donald Trump on Friday directed the Justice Department to investigate Jeffrey Epstein's involvement with financial institutions and prominent political figures — a move quickly agreed to by Attorney General Pam Bondi.

While the late financier's emails, which the House Oversight Committee released this week, contained correspondence mentioning people on both sides of the aisle — including the president himself — Trump named only Democrats as potential targets.

"Now that the Democrats are using the Epstein Hoax, involving Democrats, not Republicans, to try and deflect from their disastrous SHUTDOWN, and all of their other failures, I will be asking A.G. Pam Bondi, and the Department of Justice, together with our great patriots at the FBI, to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s involvement and relationship with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, J.P. Morgan, Chase, and many other people and institutions, to determine what was going on with them, and him," Trump said in a lengthy post on his social media platform Truth Social.

"This is another Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, with all arrows pointing to the Democrats," Trump added.

Bondi responded to the post a few hours later on X, saying she was assigning the task to Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.