Bill Clinton Has Much to Answer for on Epstein

 The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

. . . "Clinton said he “saw nothing” and “did nothing wrong.” Maybe that’s true, but it stretches the imagination to believe that Clinton spent so much time around Epstein — and the women he surrounded himself with — and had no clue what was going on."

"Former President Bill Clinton gave a deposition Friday on his relationship with child sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein that was decidedly necessary.

"Clinton had a decade-long relationship with Epstein that extended to the point that he flew on the disgraced financier’s private plane 24 times and appears in the Epstein files in photographs with multiple young women.

"We learned from the Epstein files that the FBI has investigated claims against Clinton in connection with its investigation of Epstein’s activities. Federal investigators even questioned Epstein extensively on his relationship with Clinton. To all of these inquiries, Epstein responded by pleading the Fifth."The images of Clinton that have emerged from the Epstein files suggest that Clinton was close enough with Epstein, as well as with Ghislaine Maxwell, to casually hang out with the young women — and victims — in their orbit. (RELATED: The Spectator P.M. Ep. 192: New Evidence Shows Clintons’ Long Relationship With Epstein)

"That is concerning given that we know that Epstein victimized women and children by offering them to his associates for them to sexually abuse.

"In a particularly concerning photo published by the Daily Mail, Clinton is shown in 2002 receiving a shoulder massage from a young woman, Chauntae Davies, who was a victim of Jeffrey Epstein. At the time the photo was taken, Davies was 22 years old. She later accused Epstein of having repeatedly raped her for four years from 2001 until 2005, when she was able to escape. She has said that massaging the former president was consensual.

"Two other photos from the Epstein files show Clinton posing with unidentified young women whose faces are redacted. In both of them, his arm is around the woman’s shoulder." More...

Ellie Gardey Holmes is Reporter and Associate Editor at The American Spectator. She is the author of . She is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, where she studied political science, philosophy, and journalism. Ellie has previously written for the Daily Caller, College Fix, and Irish Rover.