Former President Bill Clinton attends the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025.

Donald Trump probably thought he had found a foolproof way to deflect attention in the current Jeffrey Epstein email scandal for good on Friday.

Well, it was good, but mostly for people who enjoy mocking the president’s actions on social media.

Recently released emails suggest Trump’s relationship with the disgraced financier and sex trafficker went on much longer than previously believed ― even during his first term as president.

Things are looking sketchy for Trump, so he took to his TruthSocial platform and demanded that the Justice Department and FBI investigate Epstein’s ties to powerful people.

But not all of them. Just the ones with Democratic ties, like, most famously, the Trump wedding guest, former President Bill Clinton.

“Now that the Democrats are using the Epstein Hoax, involving Democrats, not Republicans, to try and deflect from their disastrous SHUTDOWN, and all of their other failures, I will be asking A.G. Pam Bondi, and the Department of Justice, together with our great patriots at the FBI, to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s involvement and relationship with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, J.P. Morgan, Chase, and many other people and institutions, to determine what was going on with them, and him,” the president said in a run-on sentence.

He then called the current scandal “another Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, with all arrows pointing to the Democrats.”

Like Trump, Clinton had a long relationship with Epstein and travelled with him for humanitarian trips, but Clinton has denied knowing about Epstein’s crimes.

Clinton’s office has previously said he knew nothing about Epstein’s crimes and

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