President Donald Trump on Friday asked the Department of Justice to investigate relationships between notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and former President Bill Clinton , J PMorgan Chase , former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, billionaire tech investor Reid Hoffman , and others.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said later Friday that she had appointed Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, to lead the investigation.

Trump's statement comes as he faces renewed pressure over his own past friendship with Epstein, who killed himself in August 2019 after being arrested on child sex trafficking charges.

In a Truth Social post , Trump claimed that "Democrats are using the Epstein Hoax ... to try and deflect from their disastrous SHUTDOWN,

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