{"id":2524138,"date":"2025-12-22T20:19:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T01:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-empathizes-with-bill-clinton-and-others-innocently-shown-in-epstein-files\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T20:21:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T01:21:19","slug":"trump-empathizes-with-bill-clinton-and-others-innocently-shown-in-epstein-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-empathizes-with-bill-clinton-and-others-innocently-shown-in-epstein-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump empathizes with Bill Clinton and others &#8216;innocently&#8217; shown in Epstein files"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-empathizes-with-bill-clinton-and-others-innocently-shown-in-epstein-files%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2524138&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>president Trump declined to promise release of the entire Jeffrey Epstein file while expressing sympathy for people pictured with the disgraced financier in recently published document tranches. The Justice Department released hundreds of thousands of redacted records, photos, and videos after missing a legislative deadline, but has not said when the full file will be made public.Trump called the photos &#8211; including images of Bill Clinton and himself &#8211; a &#8220;terrible look,&#8221; insisted many people in the pictures &#8220;innocently&#8221; met Epstein <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ca-governor-breaks-his-own-covid-rules-to-eat-fancy-french-food\/\" title=\"Ca. Governor Breaks His Own COVID Rules To Eat Fancy French Food\">years ago<\/a>, and warned that releasing images can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-burchett-says-biden-administration-destroyed-epstein-files\/\" title=\"Tim Burchett says Biden administration destroyed ...s\">unfairly damage reputations<\/a>. He also attacked Rep. Thomas Massie, accusing him of being used by Democrats to pursue the files, and suggested the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-doj-draws-frustration-from-gop-over-stalled-document-releases-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"... DOJ draws frustration from GOP over stalled document releases ... Washington Examiner\">document releases<\/a> were intended to distract from Republican successes.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump empathizes with Bill Clinton and others &lsquo;innocently&rsquo; featured in Epstein document dumps<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> dodged committing to the release of the complete <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jeffrey-epstein\/\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> files, but expressed sympathy on Monday for people identified in photographs with the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender in <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >document tranches released<\/a> from Epstein&rsquo;s estate.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration failed to meet a legislative deadline on Friday to release the government&rsquo;s Epstein file in its entirety. The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/department-of-justice\/\">Department of Justice<\/a> published hundreds of thousands of redacted documents, photographs, and videos on Friday afternoon, but has not specified when the entire file will be made available to the public.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4355789\/border-patrol-chief-vows-hit-zero-getaways-trump\/\">Border Patrol chief vows to hit zero getaways under Trump<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4356086\/trump-announces-new-trump-class-battleships-for-us-navys-golden-fleet\/\">Trump announces new &#8216;Trump-class&#8217; battleships for US Navy&#8217;s &#8216;golden fleet&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4355329\/jd-vance-jen-psaki-nick-fuentes-attacks-second-lady\/\">Vance says Psaki and Fuentes can &#8216;eat s***&#8217; over attacks on second lady<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Photographs of several prominent Americans, including former President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/bill-clinton\/\">Bill Clinton<\/a> and Trump himself, socializing with Epstein were included in a tranche of documents released on Friday. The president fielded questions on the topic Monday afternoon at Mar-a-Lago, suggesting it was a &ldquo;terrible look&rdquo; for Clinton, despite no evidence of wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve always gotten along with Bill Clinton. I&rsquo;ve been nice to him. He&rsquo;s been nice to me. We&rsquo;ve always gotten along. I respect him. I hate to see photos come out of him, but this is what the Democrats, mostly Democrats, and a couple of bad Republicans, are asking for,&rdquo; the president stated. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t like the pictures of Bill Clinton being shown. I don&rsquo;t like the pictures of other people being shown. I think it&rsquo;s a terrible thing. I think Bill Clinton&rsquo;s a big boy. He can handle it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But you probably have pictures being exposed of other people that innocently met Jeffrey Epstein years ago, many years ago, and they&rsquo;re highly respected bankers and lawyers and others,&rdquo; he continued, suggesting that Rep. 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He&rsquo;s just being used by the Democrats,&rdquo; the president added. &ldquo;This whole thing with Epstein is a way of trying to deflect from the tremendous success that the Republican Party has.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump closed his response by claiming that &ldquo;people are very angry that pictures are being released of other people that really had nothing to do with Epstein, but they&rsquo;re in a picture.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In a picture with him because he was at a party and you ruined the reputation of somebody,&rdquo; he stated. &ldquo;So a lot of people are very angry that this continues.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4356086\/trump-announces-new-trump-class-battleships-for-us-navys-golden-fleet\/\"><strong>TRUMP ANNOUNCES NEW &lsquo;TRUMP-CLASS&rsquo; BATTLESHIPS FOR US NAVY&rsquo;S &lsquo;GOLDEN FLEET&rsquo;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can watch Trump&rsquo;s comments in full below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"_53yJh2uuIc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"President Trump Makes an Announcement with the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_53yJh2uuIc?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump sympathizes with those in Epstein photos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2645,"featured_media":2524139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AP25356800391876-1.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38900,51209,33117,41250,3634],"class_list":["post-2524138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bill-clinton","tag-epstein-files","tag-political-scandal","tag-public-reaction","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AP25356800391876-1.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2524138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2524142,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524138\/revisions\/2524142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2524139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2524138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2524138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2524138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}