Jeffrey Epstein ‘client list’ among files to be declassified
February 12, 2025 in News by RBN Staff
Source: TheTimes.com
Other records to be released include those on the September 11 terrorist attacks, the origins of Covid and the assassination of JFK
Jeffrey Epstein’s “client list” is set to be released by a new Trump administration task force charged with the declassification of federal secrets.
Anna Paulina Luna, a member of Congress appointed by President Trump to lead the task force, announced on Tuesday that the declassified files would include those relating to the September 11 terrorist attacks, the origins of Covid-19, President John F Kennedy’s assassination, UFOs as well as a contact list belonging to the disgraced financier.
Luna, a representative for Florida, said the federal government “has been hiding information for decades” and “it is time to give Americans the answers they deserve”.
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It is not clear if the client list is distinct from Epstein’s black book, copies of which have been public in court hearings and included high-profile figures such as Prince Andrew, the former US president Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, and Trump himself. There was no suggestion of any wrongdoing by them.
According to the president, he and Epstein, both residents of Palm Beach, Florida, were associates who fell out in the 1990s, years before Epstein’s first arrest for soliciting sex from girls in 2008.
Trump, 78, also insisted that he never visited Epstein’s home in the US Virgin Islands and knew nothing of the sexual abuse of women and girls. “I don’t think — I mean, I’m not involved,” he told a podcast in September in response to the suggestion that he had shown “some hesitation” about releasing documents related to Epstein.
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“I never went to his island, fortunately, but a lot of people did,” Trump said, alleging that flight logs from Epstein’s private jet showed Clinton as a passenger.
Pam Bondi, Trump’s newly appointed attorney-general, told Fox News last week: “We know he [Clinton] was on the plane, called the Lolita Express, multiple times. He has been a continued friend of his for many years. Contrast that with Donald Trump, who had not spoken to him for over a decade after he kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago for bad behaviour.”
Clinton has denied the claim.
Epstein, 66, took his own life in a Manhattan prison in August 2019 while awaiting trial on new charges of trafficking teenage girls. After his death, his former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, was prosecuted for her role in recruiting under-age victims and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Trump signed an executive order to declassify documents on the assassinations of JFK and Martin Luther King Jr in February.
The move has prompted calls from people across the political spectrum for the president to release a client list that they hope will show who was directly involved in Epstein’s alleged sex-trafficking network.
Marsha Blackburn, a Republican senator for Tennessee, raised the issue during the Senate confirmation hearing for Kash Patel, Trump’s nominee for FBI director. “I have been working on this for years, trying to get those records of who flew on Epstein’s plane and who helped him build this international human-trafficking, sex-trafficking ring,” Blackburn told Patel.
“Absolutely, senator,” Patel replied. “Child sex trafficking has no place in the United States of America and I will do everything, if confirmed as FBI director, to make sure the American public knows the full weight of what happened in the past and how we are going to countermand missing children and exploited children going forward.”
