“Now, let me say what you’re going to hear from me,” Clinton, 79, said in a statement he shared from his personal X account on Friday, February 27. “First, I had no idea of the crimes Epstein was committing. No matter how many photos you show me, I have two things that, at the end of the day, matter more than your interpretation of those 20-year-old photos.”
He continued, “I know what I saw and, more importantly, what I didn’t see. I know what I did and, more importantly, what I didn’t do. I saw nothing, and I did nothing wrong.”
Epstein was convicted after pleading guilty to soliciting a minor for prostitution in 2008, which resulted in a 13-month sentence and his registration as a sex offender.
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In 2019, he was indicted and arrested on federal sex trafficking charges, but he died before ever making it to trial.
Epstein visited the White House 17 times during Clinton’s term as president from 1993 to 1995 and he flew on Epstein’s plane at least 27 times. Plus, Clinton was seen alongside Epstein in several photos released by the Department of Justice.
“But even with 20/20 hindsight, I saw nothing that ever gave me pause,” Clinton continued. “We are only here because he hid it from everyone so well for so long. And by the time it came to light with his 2008 guilty plea, I had long stopped associating with him.”
He added that it “doesn’t help” for him “to play detective 24 years later.”