A senior aide to former US President Bill Clinton has launched a fierce defence, accusing the current White House administration of attempting to use his name as a distraction following the release of documents related to the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Statement from Clinton's Chief of Staff
Late on Friday, 20th December 2025, Bill Clinton's chief of staff, Angel Ureña, released a statement directly addressing the former president's appearance in the newly publicised files. Ureña posted the remarks on the social media platform X.
In a strongly-worded post, Ureña claimed the timing of the document release was a deliberate tactic. "The White House hasn't been hiding these files for months only to dump them late on a Friday to protect Bill Clinton," he wrote. He suggested the move was instead about "shielding themselves from what comes next, or from what they'll try and hide forever."
Ureña dismissed the significance of old photographs included in the files, stating: "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."
Reference to White House Comments
The Clinton aide's statement directly referenced recent comments made by White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. In an interview with Vanity Fair, Wiles had said there was "no evidence" that Clinton had made multiple trips to Epstein's private island, Little Saint James, in the US Virgin Islands.
Ureña used this point to draw a clear distinction between different individuals named in the context of Epstein. "Even Susie Wiles said Donald Trump was wrong about Bill Clinton," he wrote. "There are two types of people here. The first group knew nothing and cut Epstein off before his crimes came to light. The second group continued relationships with him after. We're in the first."
Call for Answers, Not 'Scapegoats'
Concluding his public statement, Ureña took aim at what he described as political stalling tactics. He asserted that "No amount of stalling by people in the second group will change that." The message ended with a pointed remark aimed at broader political audiences, stating: "Everyone, especially MAGA, expects answers, not scapegoats."
The release of the documents and the subsequent rebuttal from Clinton's camp has ignited a fresh political firestorm, centring on the associations of high-profile figures with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
