Former President Bill Clinton is featured prominently in the first batch of files released late Friday by the Justice Department stemming from its investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
And some of Clinton’s fellow Democrats on Capitol Hill are calling for the former president to finally come clean.
In the latest Epstein scandal saga, Clinton appears in a number of the images released by the Department of Justice in accordance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which was signed into law by President Donald Trump last month.
There were several photos of Clinton among the thousands of documents made public.
Some showed him on a private plane, including one with a woman, whose face is redacted, seated alongside him with her arm around him.
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Another photo shows him in a pool with Epstein’s longtime confidant, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, and a person whose face was also redacted.
Another photo shows Clinton in a hot tub with a woman whose face was redacted.
According to the DOJ, the only faces that would be redacted would be those of minors, alleged victims, and government officials.
Clinton has prominently been tied to Epstein.
According to a report by The Associated Press, Epstein visited the White House multiple times while Clinton was president.
After Clinton left office, Epstein assisted with the former president’s controversial Clinton Foundation. Clinton flew numerous times on Epstein’s private jet.
Sen. Tim Kaine, D-V.A., who was Hillary Clinton’s running mate during her failed presidential campaign in 2016, demanded yesterday that Clinton “should address” questions surrounding files linked to Epstein.
“Former President Bill Clinton is featured prominently in the first batch, as I was just discussing now. To be very clear, NBC News does not know the full context behind these images, and simply being in the Epstein files doesn’t imply any criminal wrongdoing, but does Clinton owe the public an explanation about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein?” NBC News’s Kristen Welker asked Kaine on yesterday’s edition of “Meet the Press.”
“You know, I actually haven’t tracked what President Clinton has said, and if there are unanswered questions, you know, he should address them, and I suspect he will,” Kaine replied.
“But, let’s just make sure that we meet the promise that President Trump made as a candidate, that all these files will be released. Let’s put all the facts and all the material out on the table, and then folks can reach their own judgments about anybody connected with this horrible, horrible case,” Kaine said.
However, Clinton and his team continue to be quiet about his involvement with Epstein.
Clinton chief of staff Angel Ureña responded in a statement posted to X on Friday evening shortly after the photos were released, saying Clinton cut ties with Epstein after his “crimes came to light” and is being scapegoated by the Trump administration.
“There are two types of people here. The first group knew nothing and cut Epstein off before his crimes came to light,” Ureña said.
“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,” he added.
“The White House hasn’t been hiding these files for months only to dump them late on a Friday to protect Bill Clinton,” the statement from Ureña read. “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.”
— Angel Ureña (@angelurena) December 19, 2025
Clinton was impeached in 1998 for lying under oath and obstructing justice when he denied a sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky, an intern who was just 22 years old when the affair started.
Clinton eventually confessed cheating on his wife with Lewinsky, while stressing that “even presidents have private lives.”