Trump orders Justice Department to investigate Epstein’s ties to Democrats, banks

President Donald Trump said Friday he has directed the Justice Department to investigate late financier Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to several high-profile Democrats and some banks.

“Now that Democrats are using the Epstein hoax, involving Democrats, not Republicans, to try to distract from their disastrous ARREST and all of their other failures, I will ask AG Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice, along with our great patriots at the FBI, to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s involvement and relationships with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, JPMorgan, Chase and many other individuals and institutions, to determine what happened with them and with him,” Trump said. Social truth.

“This is another Russia, Russia, Russia scam, with all the arrows pointing at the Democrats,” he added. “Records show that these men, and many others, spent much of their lives with Epstein and on his ‘island.’ Stay tuned!!!”

EX-CLINTON CABINET SECRETARY REGULARLY EXCHANGED EMAILS WITH EPSTEIN AFTER CONVICTION, NEW DOCUMENTS REVEAL

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were both indicted on federal sex trafficking charges stemming from Epstein’s years of abuse of underage girls. (Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

Trish Wexler, head of policy communications and advocacy at JPMorgan Chase & Co., told Fox News Digital that “the government had damning information about (Epstein’s) crimes and failed to share it with us and other banks.”

“We regret any association we had with this man that did not assist him in committing his heinous acts,” she added. “We ended our relationship with him years before his arrest for sex trafficking.”

In an article published Friday, Trump said that “Epstein was a Democrat“, and so it’s the “Democrats (sic) problem”, not the Republicans’. He also accused Democrats of “doing everything in their power to push the Epstein hoax again, despite the DOJ releasing 50,000 pages of documents.”

Trump then said lawmakers shouldn’t “waste” time looking into him and should instead focus on Democrats who he later named in the message announcing the investigation.

President Donald Trump has asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to several prominent Democrats as well as major banks. (Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images; Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

EPSTEIN VICTIMS READY TO BREAK SILENCE AMID BIPARTISAN PUSH TO RELEASE FILES: ‘PEOPLE WILL BE OUTRAGED’

On Wednesday, Democrats on the Oversight Committee released previously unseen emails related to the Epstein case. The first email is between Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Epstein writes, “I want you to realize that the only dog ​​that hasn’t barked is Trump,” adding that the current president “spent hours at my house” with a victim.

In the second email, the disgraced financier told Michael Wolff that Trump “knew about the girls when he asked Ghislaine to stop.”

Rep. Robert Garcia, Democrat of California, a member of the Oversight Committee, called on the Justice Department to release all of the Epstein files “immediately.”

“The more Donald Trump tries to cover up the Epstein files, the more we uncover,” Garcia said. in a statement. “These latest emails and correspondence raise glaring questions about what the White House is hiding and the nature of the relationship between Epstein and the president.”

United States Attorney General Pam Bondi (left) speaks as President Donald Trump listens during a press conference in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, October 15, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

WHITE HOUSE SLAMS RELEASE OF DEMS’ “BAD FAITH” EPSTEIN DOC AS DEMAND FOR FILES INTENSIFIES

The emails were released the same day Trump signed a bill ending the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. This timing led Trump to accuse Democrats of using Epstein to distract the public from the shutdown fiasco.

Following the release of Democrats’ emails, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News Digital that lawmakers “selectively leaked emails to liberal media outlets to create a false narrative aimed at defaming President Trump.”

In response to the release of the emails, Republicans on the Oversight Committee said Democrats “complain about ‘releasing the files,’ but only cherry-pick when they have them to generate clickbait.” You deserve the whole truth. The tweet contained a link to what Republicans said was a 20,000 pages of documents from the Epstein estate.

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Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., a member of the Oversight Committee, criticized Democrats and accused them of ignoring the stories of Epstein’s victims in order to focus on Trump.

“How pathetic that Democrats are using Epstein victims to bury headlines about their vote against reopening the government,” Mace wrote on X.

Fox News Digital has contacted representatives for Clinton, Summers and Hoffman for comment.

Leo Briceno of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.