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Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said former President Bill Clinton should address the public’s questions about his appearance in numerous images released by the Department of Justice last week in relation to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“You know, I actually haven’t tracked what President Clinton said, and if there are unanswered questions, he should address them,” Kaine told NBC News’s Kristen Welker on “Meet the Press” Sunday. “And I suspect he will.”
Kaine, who was former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s running mate in the 2016 presidential election, went on to stress that it was important for all of the Epstein files be released.
“Let’s put all the facts and all the material out on the table, and then folks can reach their own judgments about anybody connected with this horrible, horrible case,” Kaine said.
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The Epstein Files Transparency Act gave the Justice Department 30 days to publish all of its Epstein records “in a searchable and downloadable format.” On Friday, the DOJ released some ― though not all ― of its documents, photos and recordings related to Epstein, many of which were completely redacted.
Clinton and other public figures appeared in multiple photos in a variety of social settings alongside Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell. The times and locations were not specified in the released files.
Clinton has not been accused of wrongdoing in relation to Epstein’s crimes.
On Friday, White House deputy press secretary Abigail Jackson posted a photo on X of Clinton, pop star Michael Jackson and singer Diana Ross alongside several minors whose faces were redacted in the image.
“Per the Epstein Files Transparency Act, DOJ was specifically instructed only to redact the faces of victims and/or minors,” she captioned the post. “Here is a picture of Bill Clinton with his arm around Michael Jackson, and redacted individuals.”
Many on X blasted Jackson for alluding that the trio were involved in Epstein’s sex crimes, particularly since the image in her post was a publicly available photo from Getty Images of the “Beat It” singer and his children, as well as Ross and her son posing with Clinton at a fundraiser.
Clinton has not publicly addressed Jackson’s X post. Reps for Clinton did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.
Jackson made the post after President Donald Trump announced that he would have the DOJ investigate Clinton’s so-called ties to Epstein. In response, Clinton spokesperson Angel Ureña said in a statement: “These emails prove Bill Clinton did nothing and knew nothing. The rest is noise meant to distract from election losses, backfiring shutdowns, and who knows what else.”
Watch Kaine’s appearance on “Meet the Press” below.
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