Angel Ureña said ex-president, pictured in some photos released by justice department, cut ties with Epstein in 2005

A spokesperson for Bill Clinton accused the White House late on Friday of using him as a scapegoat after pictures of the former president with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as with a young woman in a pool, were included as part of congressionally ordered release of government files.

“The White House hasn’t been hiding these files for months only to dump them late on a Friday to protect Bill Clinton,” the spokesperson said in a statement on X.

“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,” the statement added.

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    18 hours ago

    Of course they are. They want to shine a spotlight on the most prominent Democrat in the files so that he becomes associated with the files. They either hope the association changes from trump to Clinton or that the Democrats will see one of their idols in the cross hairs and back down.

    We all know though that the Democrats stated position though is if anyone did wrong, prosecute regardless of politics.

    Trump doesn’t seem to realise his documented close association with Epstein makes his absence from the files that are released highly suspicious. If it really is innocent, then realising all of the evidence would clear Trump. Instead he is releasing non incriminating things about Clinton and redacting everyone else. I mean they really do not respect the American people at all, they think they are dumb and can be manipulated into believing whatever they want. Except it isn’t working this time…