Trump Says ‘Terrible’ Epstein Files Are Tarnishing Reputations

December 22, 2025, 11:05 PM UTC

President Donald Trump said he believed “people are very angry that pictures are being released” that connect them to notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, days after the Justice Department released a new tranche of files tied to the late financier.

“People that really had nothing to do with Epstein, but they’re in a picture with him because he was in a party, and you ruin a reputation of somebody,” Trump said Monday at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. “So a lot of people are very angry that this continues.”

Trump said he hated to see former President Bill Clinton ...



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