In response, the US Justice Department confirmed that, at Trump’s request, they’d be investigating Epstein’s ties to former US president Bill Clinton, as well as the banks JP Morgan and Chase, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman (who is a donor for the Democratic Party).

The House is heading towards a vote on a bill to force the Justice Department to release the case files it has collected on the late financier Jeffrey Epstein

The president said in a social media post that House Republicans should vote to release the files, a rare instance of backtracking because of opposition within Trump’s own party.