{"id":38086,"date":"2025-12-20T23:49:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T23:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/bill-clinton-spokesperson-says-white-house-is-using-him-as-scapegoat-after-epstein-files-release\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T23:49:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T23:49:48","slug":"bill-clinton-spokesperson-says-white-house-is-using-him-as-scapegoat-after-epstein-files-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/bill-clinton-spokesperson-says-white-house-is-using-him-as-scapegoat-after-epstein-files-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Clinton spokesperson says White House is using him as scapegoat after Epstein files release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Angel Ure\u00f1a said ex-president, pictured in some photos released by justice department, cut ties with Epstein in 2005<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/clinton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Clinton<\/a> accused the White House late on Friday of using him as a scapegoat after pictures of the former president with sex offender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/jeffrey-epstein\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> and Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as with a young woman in a pool, were included as part of congressionally ordered release of government files.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe White House hasn\u2019t been hiding these files for months only to dump them late on a Friday to protect Bill Clinton,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/angelurena\/status\/2002159039183269993?s=46&amp;t=bc4OjMQq3SFcud7QML4uPw\" rel=\"nofollow\">the spokesperson said in a statement on X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/20\/bill-clinton-white-house-epstein-files\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angel Ure\u00f1a said ex-president, pictured in some photos released by justice department, cut ties with Epstein in 2005 A spokesperson for Bill Clinton accused the White House late on Friday of using him as a scapegoat after pictures of the former president with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 19:15:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}