Bill Clinton

=== Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein ===
In the early 2000s, Clinton took flights on [[Jeffrey Epstein]]'s private jet in connection with Clinton Foundation work.<ref name="McDonald">{{cite news |last1=McDonald |first1=Scott |date=July 8, 2019 |title=Bill Clinton says he didn't know about Jeffrey Epstein's alleged sex trafficking crimes |work=[[Newsweek]] |url=https://www.newsweek.com/bill-clinton-says-he-didnt-know-about-jeffrey-epsteins-alleged-sex-trafficking-crimes-1448171 |access-date=September 16, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Gold |first1=Michael |date=July 9, 2019 |title=Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein: How Are They Connected? |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/nyregion/bill-clinton-jeffrey-epstein.html |access-date=September 16, 2019}}</ref> According to Epstein's attorney [[Gerald B. Lefcourt]], Epstein was "part of the original group that conceived of the [[Clinton Global Initiative]]".<ref>{{cite web|last1=Hill|first1=James|first2=Matthew|last2=Mosk|date=February 11, 2016|title=Victims: Feds Hid 'Sweetheart' Deal for Sex Offender With Deep Political Ties|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/victims-feds-hid-sweetheart-deal-sex-offender-deep/story?id=36843144|work=ABC|access-date=July 20, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190720073439/https://abcnews.go.com/US/victims-feds-hid-sweetheart-deal-sex-offender-deep/story?id=36843144|archive-date=July 20, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2002, a spokesperson for Clinton praised Epstein as "a committed philanthropist" with "insights and generosity".<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=July 9, 2019 |title=Clinton and Trump Plead Ignorance as Epstein's Old Friends Begin to Sweat |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/clinton-trump-plead-ignorance-as-jeffrey-epstein-friends-begin-to-sweat |access-date=October 20, 2022 |magazine=Vanity Fair }}</ref> While Clinton was president Epstein visited the White House at least 17 times.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=December 3, 2021 |title=Jeffrey Epstein Visited Bill Clinton's White House at Least 17 Times From 1993 to 1995, Visitor Logs Show |url=https://www.nationalreview.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-visited-bill-clintons-white-house-at-least-17-times-from-1993-to-1995-visitor-logs-show/ |access-date=October 20, 2022 |magazine=National Review }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Ruhalter |first=Kana |date=December 2, 2021 |title=White House Visitor Logs Show Just How Friendly Epstein and President Clinton Were |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-visited-president-bill-clinton-17-times-white-house-visitor-logs-show |access-date=October 20, 2022 |website=The Daily Beast}}</ref> Years later, Epstein was convicted on sex trafficking charges. Clinton's office released a statement in 2019 saying, "President Clinton knows nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to in Florida some years ago, or those with which he has been recently charged in New York. In 2002 and 2003, President Clinton took four trips on Jeffrey Epstein's airplane: one to Europe, one to Asia, and two to Africa, which included stops in connection with the work of the Clinton Foundation. Staff, supporters of the Foundation, and his Secret Service detail traveled on every leg of every trip. [...] He's not spoken to Epstein in well over a decade."<ref name="McDonald" /><ref>{{cite news |last1=Moye |first1=David |date=July 8, 2019 |title=Bill Clinton Denies Knowing Anything About Jeffrey Epstein's 'Terrible Crimes' |work=[[HuffPost]] |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bill-clinton-jeffrey-epstein-statement_n_5d23c6c6e4b0cfb595fad85a |access-date=September 16, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Arciga |first=Julia |date=July 9, 2019 |title=Bill Clinton: I Flew With Jeffrey Epstein but Knew 'Nothing' About 'Terrible Crimes' |website=[[The Daily Beast]]}}</ref>

However, later reports showed that Clinton had flown on Epstein's plane 26 times.<ref>{{Cite news |date=May 14, 2016 |title=Report: Bill Clinton Flew on Disgraced Donor's Jet 26 Times |url=https://www.rollcall.com/2016/05/13/report-bill-clinton-flew-on-disgraced-donors-jet-26-times/ |access-date=October 20, 2022 |newspaper=Roll Call}}</ref> In another statement Clinton said "one meeting with Epstein in his Harlem office in 2002, and around the same time made one brief visit to Epstein's New York apartment with a staff member and his security detail". In July 2019 it was reported that Clinton attended a dinner with Epstein in 1995, a meeting with Epstein that Clinton had not previously disclosed.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Melendez |first=Pilar |date=July 11, 2019 |title=Bill Clinton Failed to Mention His Intimate 1995 Dinner With Epstein |website=The Daily Beast |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/bill-clinton-failed-to-mention-his-intimate-1995-dinner-with-epstein |access-date=October 22, 2022}}</ref>

Clinton reportedly used Epstein's private jet to visit [[Little St. James Island]], where Epstein resided,<ref name="independent 3">{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/prince-andrew-sex-allegations-billionaire-jeffrey-epstein-had-21-phone-numbers-for-bill-clinton-9959491.html|title=Prince Andrew sex allegations: Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein 'had 21|date=January 6, 2015|website=The Independent}}</ref> on multiple occasions between 2002 and 2005.<ref name="independent">{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/who-is-jeffrey-epstein-a-study-of-the-man-linked-to-worlds-of-celebrity-politics-and-royalty-9954397.html|title=Jeffrey Epstein – the billionaire paedophile at the centre of the Prince Andrew sex claim|date=January 2, 2015|website=The Independent}}</ref> [[Virginia Roberts Giuffre|Virginia Roberts]], later known as Virginia Giuffre, says in a lawsuit that while working at [[Donald Trump]]'s [[Mar-a-Lago]] resort<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article233704797.html |title=Huge cache of records details how Jeffrey Epstein and madam lured girls into depraved world |last1=Brown |first1=Julie K. |last2=Blaskey |first2=Sarah |date=August 9, 2019 |website=[[Miami Herald]] |access-date=July 28, 2020 |quote=Virginia Roberts, now Giuffre, says she was 16 and working as a locker room attendant at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort when she was approached by [[Ghislaine Maxwell]], Jeffrey Epstein’s associate, about becoming a masseuse for Epstein.}}</ref> she was lured into a [[sex-trafficking]] ring run by Epstein and while traveling with Epstein she saw Clinton on the island.<ref name="politico">{{cite web|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/04/jeffrey-epstein-trump-lawsuit-sex-trafficking-237983|title=The one weird court case linking Trump, Clinton, and a billionaire pedophile|first=Josh|last=Gerstein|website=POLITICO|date=May 4, 2017 }}</ref> In a 2011 conversation with her lawyers, Roberts stated that Clinton traveled to Epstein's retreat on Little St. James in 2002.<ref name="Buzzfeed"/> According to Roberts, Epstein told her that Clinton "owes me favors" when she asked what he was doing there.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newsweek.com/bill-clinton-went-jeffrey-epsteins-island-2-young-girls-virginia-giuffre-says-1521845|title=Bill Clinton Went to Jeffrey Epstein's Island With 2 'Young Girls,' Virginia Giuffre Says|newspaper=Newsweek|date=30 July 2020|first=Daniel|last=Villarreal}}</ref> She also reportedly claimed that Epstein and Clinton had dined in the presence of two girls aged approximately seventeen whom she believed Epstein had invited to have sex with Clinton, but that Clinton showed no interest in them.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bill-clinton-didn-t-bait-013258134.html|title=Bill Clinton 'Didn't Take The Bait' Of Two 'Underaged' Girls, Jeffrey Epstein Docs Claim|newspaper=Yahoo! News|date=4 January 2024|first=Afouda|last=Bamidele}}</ref> A [[Freedom of Information Act (United States)|Freedom of Information Act]] request for [[United States Secret Service]] records of visits Clinton may have made to Little St. James produced no such evidence.<ref name="politico"/> According to Epstein's flight logs, Clinton never flew near the U.S. Virgin Islands.<ref name="Buzzfeed">{{cite web|url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/clinton-epstein-innuendo|title=Plenty Of Innuendo, But No Hard Evidence Of New Clinton Sex Scandal|website=BuzzFeed News|date=January 28, 2015}}</ref> In July 2019, a Clinton spokesperson issued a statement saying Clinton never visited the island.<ref name="APnews">{{cite news |last=Coto |first= Dánica |url=https://www.apnews.com/cd794044e8be4e619093582d6d3355d2 |title=Whispers, suspicion about Epstein on Caribbean island |work=[[Associated Press]] |date=July 11, 2019 |access-date=August 13, 2019 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190813012919/https://www.apnews.com/cd794044e8be4e619093582d6d3355d2 |archive-date=August 13, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Kate|last=Sullivan|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/08/politics/bill-clinton-jeffrey-epstein/index.html|title=Bill Clinton 'knows nothing' about Epstein's 'terrible crimes,' spokesman says|website=[[CNN]]|date=July 8, 2019}}</ref> According to former Clinton aide, [[Doug Band]], Clinton visited Epstein's island in January 2003.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Norton |first1=Tom |title=Did Bill Clinton Visit Jeffrey Epstein's Island? What We Know |url=https://www.newsweek.com/did-bill-clinton-visit-jeffrey-epstein-island-what-we-know-1857039 |work=[[Newsweek]] |date=2 January 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Sherman |first1=Gabriel |title=Confessions of a Clintonworld Exile |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/12/confessions-of-a-clintonworld-exile |work=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |date=2 December 2020}}</ref>

In 2024, unsealed court documents revealed allegations that Clinton had visited the offices of ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'' and 'threatened' the paper not to print stories about Epstein's sexual trafficking. Former ''Vanity Fair'' editor [[Graydon Carter]] denied the incident ever took place.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.sky.com/story/jeffrey-epstein-court-documents-bill-clinton-threatened-magazine-not-to-publish-articles-about-his-good-friend-13042406|title=Jeffrey Epstein court documents: Bill Clinton 'threatened' magazine not to publish articles about his 'good friend'|newspaper=Sky News|date=5 January 2024|first=Connor|last=Sephton}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2024/01/04/new-epstein-documents-unsealed-bill-clinton-threatened-vanity-fair-over-sex-trafficking-coverage-email-alleges/|title=New Epstein Documents Unsealed: Bill Clinton 'Threatened' Vanity Fair Over Sex Trafficking Coverage, Email Alleges|newspaper=Forbes|date=4 January 2024|author=Antonio Pequeño IV}}</ref>