Image Credit: Department of Justice 
Former President Bill Clinton is pictured lounging in a hot tub with an unidentified woman in a new Epstein photo released by the Department of Justice on Friday. One ex-aide has said the release of the picture will lead to “his reckoning.”
Clinton, 79, is shown in a number of other pictures released on Friday as part of a large cache of Epstein-related materials. Friday marked the end of the 30-day deadline specified by a new congressional transparency law on the Epstein files.
In another picture, the former president is shown with his arm around an unidentified woman on a plane.
He’s also seen in the UK with Epstein, travelling to the Middle East and Thailand with him, and attending the wedding of the Moroccan king.
The extent to which Clinton features in the new releases has caused shock, including among former aides.
“This is his reckoning. I mean, if you turn on CNN, that’s what they are talking about. I’ve gotten a million texts about it,” said one.
“People are like, ‘I can’t believe he was in a hot tub. Who’s the woman in there?’ She’s at, you know, body level. I mean, it’s, like, unbelievable. It’s just shocking.”
The aide said Clinton, like Prince Andrew, is “kinda done.”
“He was already done before, but now he’s even more so.
“People have to be brought to justice for if they did these things, there’s no question about it.”
Other famous people featured in the release include Michael Jackson, Mick Jagger and Prince Andrew.
The images have been redacted, making it impossible to know the identities of the women in them.
A Clinton spokesperson reacted furiously to the images of the former president, saying they had been released to divert attention away from President Trump, who does not feature in the release.
“The White House hasn’t been hiding these files for months only to dump them late on a Friday to protect Bill Clinton,’ the spokesperson told The Daily Mail.
This is about shielding themselves from what comes next, or from what they’ll try and hide forever. 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. Even Susie Wiles said Donald Trump was wrong about Bill Clinton.
“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. No amount of stalling by people in the second group will change that. Everyone, especially MAGA, expects answers, not scapegoats.”
