U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he was asking the Department of Justice to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged ties with JPMorgan and several prominent Democratic figures, including former president Bill Clinton.
The request comes after a congressional committee released thousands of documents that raised new questions about Trump’s relationship with the convicted sex offender.
Along with Clinton, who socialized with the late financier in the early 2000s, Trump said he had asked the Justice Department to investigate former treasury secretary Larry Summers, and Reid Hoffman, the LinkedIn founder who is also a prominent Democratic donor.
“Epstein was a Democrat, and he is the Democrat’s problem, not the Republican’s problem!” he wrote on social media. “They all know

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