A spokesperson for former president Bill Clinton has addressed his name and pictures emerging in the Epstein files on Friday afternoon.

'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 said.

'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,' the spokesperson added, referencing Wiles' recent interview with Vanity Fair in which she admitted 'Trump was wrong' about there being incriminating evidence against the former Democratic president in the files

'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,' Clinton's spokesperson said.

'No amount of stalling by people in the second group will change that. Everyone, especially MAGA, expects answers, not scapegoats.'

Allegations that Epstein introduced Trump to a 14-year-old girl at Mar-a-Lago have resurfaced five years after they first became public knowledge in the wake of the latest Epstein file dump.

The alleged encounter reportedly took place in the 1990s. According to the document, Epstein 'playfully asked' Trump 'this is a good one, right?'

Trump allegedly smiled and nodded in agreement, according to the lawsuit filed against Epstein's estate and Ghislaine Maxwell in 2020.

The victim claimed she was groomed by Epstein but made no allegations against Trump.

She allegedly felt uncomfortable during the conversation but 'at the time was too young to understand why.'

Trump has consistently maintained his innocence and is not accused of any wrongdoing.

The president traveled to Rocky Mount, North Carolina, for what was billed as an economic speech.

He managed to veer into other issues - criticizing Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, touting his cognitive abilities and strikes he ordered earlier in day against Islamic State militants in Syria.

But Trump made no mention of the release of the Epstein files.

Marjorie Taylor Greene has issued a scathing takedown of authorities who chose to redact names of high profile individuals from the Epstein files released on Friday.

'The whole point was NOT to protect the “politically exposed individuals and government officials,' she wrote.

'That’s exactly what MAGA has always wanted, that’s what drain the swamp actually means.

'It means expose them all, the rich powerful elites who are corrupt and commit crimes, NOT redact their names and protect them.

'What happened to “I am your retribution”? It’s literally part of the bill I voted for as stated here and now it’s law: (b) PROHIBITED GROUNDS FOR WITHHOLDING.— (1) No record shall be withheld, delayed, or redacted on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary.'

The team that reviewed and prepared the documents for public release included more than 200 Justice Department lawyers, according to a DOJ letter sent to Congress.

In that letter, obtained by the Associated Press, Deputy AG Todd Blanche said 187 lawyers from DOJ’s national security division reviewed all the files to determine what should be released.

Then, 25 attorneys, deemed a 'quality control team,' worked to ensure that information that personally identified victims was redacted.

Those lawyers came from the DOJ’s Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties and the Office of Information Policy.

Lawyers from the Southern District of New York also reviewed the material to confirm that personal information was appropriately redacted.

Marina Lacerda, one of the women who says she survived sexual assault by Epstein, beginning when she was 14 years old, said Friday she wanted to see greater transparency from the Justice Department and expressed frustration that all the files aren’t out yet.

'Just put out the files,' she said.

'And stop redacting names that don’t need to be redacted.'

She said she was skeptical of the administration saying it’s aiming to be transparent.

'In the beginning, they were calling us a hoax, right?' she said. 'Now they’re like, '‘We believe you, we’re gonna release the files,'’ but yet you still haven’t released the files and it’s not even fully transparent.'

Epstein purchased two books about erotic slavery in an Amazon receipt released on Friday.

One of the books was titled 'Roadmaps for Erotic Servitude', while he second was titled 'Training with Miss Abernathy: A Workbook for Erotic Slaves and Their Owners'.

The blurb for the first book reads: 'The author of Ties That Bind joins forces with a grateful slave to produce this gripping and personal account on the subject of consensual slavery.

'Philosophical and intense, SlaveCraft dares to delve beneath the surface of D/s relationships and give us an intimate and revealing view from a rare perspective--that of a slave.'

Reposting a photo released from the Epstein document trove of former president Bill Clinton in a hot tub, Karoline Leavitt took to X to react: 'Oh my!'