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(The Guardian) Bill Clinton's spokesperson accuses White House of pointing to former president's Epstein ties to distract from Trump's
The partial release of files from the justice department on Friday includes heavy redactions and scant references to Donald Trump, but many images of Bill Clinton, the former president Trump has claimed, without evidence, was closer to Jeffrey Epstein than him.
Angel Ureña, a spokesperson for Clinton, accused the Trump White House of trying to focus attention on the former president while concealing evidence of the current one’s ties to the late sex offender in a statement posted on social media.
“The White House hasn’t been hiding these files for months only to dump them late on a Friday to protect Bill Clinton. 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. Even Susie Wiles said Donald Trump was wrong about Bill Clinton,” Ureña said.
“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,” Ureña added.
In an interview with Vanity Fair published earlier this week, and which Ureña referenced, Trump’s White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, admitted that “there is no evidence” for the unsourced claim Trump has been making for years: that Clinton visited Epstein’s notorious private island in the Caribbean. Wiles also said that the files she had seen contained no damning evidence about Clinton. “The president was wrong about that,” she said.
Kentucky Republican, along with Ro Khanna, California Democrat, who co-wrote Epstein Transparency Act, say releasing heavily redacted files on rolling basis does not comply with law
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