Bill Clinton’s spokesperson has called for all the Jeffrey Epstein files related to the former US President to be released. Multiple photos included in the Epstein Files released on Friday by the Department of Justice showed Mr Clinton. In one, he could be seen in a swimming pool with the Jeffrey Epstein’s ex-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell. Today, three days after the Epstein Files release, Mr Clinton’s spokesperson Angel Ureña issued a statement in which he said the former US President doesn’t need protection when it comes to the files. 

He claimed: “What the Department of Justice has released so far, and the manner in which it did so, makes one thing clear: someone or something is being protected. We do not know whom, what or why. But we do know this: We need no such protection.” The former president was pictured multiple times in Friday’s release, alongside Michael Jackson and Mick Jagger.

Being pictured in the Epstein files does not imply any wrongdoing. Mr Clinton has not been accused of wrongdoing, and has denied knowledge of Epstein’s sex offending.

Mr Ureña previously accused Donald Trump’s administration of “shielding themselves from what comes next” on the day the latest batch of files were released.

He wrote on X: “The White House hasn’t been hiding these files for months only to dump them late on a Friday to protect Bill Clinton.

“This is about shielding themselves from what comes next, or from what they’ll try and hide forever.

“So they can release as many grainy 20-plus-year-old photos as they want, but this isn’t about Bill Clinton. Never has, never will be. Even Susie Wiles said Donald Trump was wrong about Bill Clinton.” 

Many of the documents released were redacted, something the law allowed the DOJ to do when it came to material related to active investigations or records containing “personally identifiable information of victims”.

In a 2002 New York Magazine article, Mr Clinton called Epstein “both a highly successful financier and a committed philanthropist” through his spokesperson. 

When Epstein was arrested on sex trafficking charges in July 2019, Mr Clinton’s spokesperson said the ex-president took four trips on the sex offender’s private jet between 2002 and 2003, including “stops in connection with the work of the Clinton Foundation”. This happened years before allegations against Epstein emerged. 

The US Justice Department released thousands of pages of documents related to the late sex offender on December 19. However, not all the materials were made public. 

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said last week that the DOJ was reviewing the material in its possession to protect victims’ identities and would be releasing potentially hundreds of thousands of additional files in the coming weeks. 

He also said that “there’s no effort to hold anything back because there’s the name Donald J. Trump or anybody else’s name.”

The White House has been contacted for comment.