Hundreds of thousands of newly-released Justice Department photos—dropped at 6 p.m. on a Friday—show Bill Clinton pool-side, plane-side and hot-tub-side with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Within minutes the images were racing across social-media feeds, and by Sunday the former president’s team had had enough.
Clinton spokesman Angel Ureña took to X on December 22, accusing the White House of using the decades-old snapshots as a “scapegoat” shield.
“They can dump as many grainy 20-plus-year-old photos as they want, but this isn’t about Bill Clinton. Never has been, never will be.”
The spokesperson demanded that Attorney General Pam Bondi release every remaining Clinton-related record immediately, arguing that selective leaks imply guilt where none exists.
“We need no such protection,” Ureña wrote, challenging DOJ to prove it isn’t *“implying wrongdoing about individuals who have already been repeatedly cleared… under Presidents and Attorneys General of both parties.”
Context vs. Clickbait
None of the photos is time-stamped; some appear to date from the late-1990s/early-2000s.
No file accuses Clinton of criminal conduct; flight logs show he traveled on Epstein’s jet but always with Secret Service, and he says he never visited Epstein’s island.
Victims’ attorneys complain that victims’ names were left un-redacted in the same dump, fueling charges that the rush to embarrass celebrities overrode privacy safeguards.
Even President Trump, whose signature created the Epstein Files Transparency Act, called the photo release “a terrible thing” and warned against ruining reputations based on old party pictures.
“Epstein was all over Palm Beach… a lot of people innocently met him years ago,” Trump told reporters at Mar-a-Lago.
Bottom line: the Clinton team wants full sunlight—release everything now, let the public see the scope, and stop the drip-drip of context-free images. DOJ says it is still vetting hundreds of thousands of pages and will publish more “on a rolling basis,” leaving plenty of room for additional revelations—and additional spin— in the weeks ahead.
