Washington (AFP) — US President Donald Trump said Friday he wants the Justice Department and FBI to investigate links between the late alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and former Democratic president Bill Clinton.

Seeking to turn the tables after a new trove of Epstein emails reignited questions over his own ties to the disgraced financier, Trump also demanded a probe into US bank JPMorgan Chase, ex-Harvard president Larry Summers and others.

Republican Trump accused rival Democrats of “using the Epstein Hoax” to distract from the party’s recent compromise to end a record U.S. government shutdown, and said the scandal involved “Democrats, not Republicans.”

“I will be asking A.G. Pam Bondi, and the Department of Justice, together with our great patriots at the FBI, to investigate J

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