In recent weeks, media attention has once again fixated on Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump. Old photographs, vague associations, and recycled talking points have been repackaged to imply wrongdoing—even though Trump’s documented relationship with Epstein ended years before Epstein’s crimes became public.

Epstein was a wealthy financier with access to heads of state, billionaires, academics, and global power brokers. In that world, proximity alone was not unusual. 

The problem is not that powerful people crossed paths with Epstein. The problem is how long those relationships lasted, how deeply they extended into Epstein’s private world, and what sworn testimony and records actually show.

While media narratives remain fixated on Trump, newly resurfaced images and long-standing records involving several influential Democrats and left-leaning elites raise far more serious questions. 

What follows is not an assertion of guilt. A photograph does not prove criminal conduct, and every individual deserves due process. But the documented depth of certain relationships deserves scrutiny—especially when contrasted with the comparatively limited and severed association involving Trump.

Bill Clinton: Bill Clinton with Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_083646)

Among all the names connected to Epstein, none is supported by a more extensive factual record than former President Bill Clinton.

Photographs placing Clinton alongside Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell are only the surface. 

The more serious evidence comes from sworn testimony, flight logs, phone records, and firsthand witness accounts—many of which were ignored for years.

Epstein’s longtime pilot, Larry Visoski, flew Epstein’s planes for decades and maintained detailed knowledge of passenger manifests. 

In a sworn deposition with attorney Bradley Edwards, Visoski confirmed that Bill Clinton was among several high-profile individuals who traveled aboard Epstein’s aircraft during times when young girls were present. 

That list included Prince Andrew, Lawrence Summers, Ron Burkle, Kevin Spacey, and Chris Tucker.

Visoski stated that he personally did not suspect wrongdoing at the time, but that subjective belief does not alter the factual admission: Clinton was present in Epstein’s environment during flights that later became central to trafficking investigations.

Additional records reinforce the pattern. Litigation filings show Clinton traveled repeatedly on Epstein’s aircraft between 2002 and 2005, often alongside Maxwell and Epstein staffers later tied directly to abuse recruitment. 

Epstein’s personal directory listed 21 separate phone numbers connected to Clinton and his inner circle—an extraordinary level of access unmatched by any other former president.

This evidence formed the basis for attorney Bradley Edwards’s attempt to depose Clinton. The rationale was not rumor or partisanship but documented proximity, repeated travel, and association with individuals central to Epstein’s crimes.

Democrats spent years constructing a political narrative around a single Trump comment acknowledging Epstein socially. The record surrounding Clinton is not speculative, but sworn, logged, and corroborated.

Bill Gates: Bill Gates with Epstein’s Pilot.

Bill Gates’s connection to Epstein is shorter than Clinton’s but still deeply troubling—especially given Gates’s own admissions.

Photographs show Gates alongside Epstein and Prince Andrew, another central figure in the scandal. Additional images place Gates in Epstein’s residences, including photographs displayed inside Epstein’s properties that appear to feature Gates himself.

Gates later acknowledged meeting Epstein multiple times after Epstein’s 2008 conviction, calling the relationship a “mistake” and conceding that Epstein sought to leverage Gates’s influence.

Gates has said those meetings were related to philanthropy, but the timing and persistence of the relationship—long after Epstein was a convicted sex offender—raise serious judgment concerns.

Unlike Trump, who cut ties with Epstein years earlier, Gates maintained contact well into the period when Epstein’s criminal reputation was widely known.

Richard Branson:

Photographs also place billionaire Richard Branson on Epstein’s private island. 

Branson has never been accused of criminal conduct, yet it remains difficult to reconcile with his public image.

Branson has been one of Trump’s most vocal elite critics, portraying Trump as vindictive, dangerous, and morally unfit for leadership. 

He endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and frequently contrasts Trump unfavorably with Barack Obama.

That moral condemnation stands in tension with Branson’s own documented proximity to Epstein. 

Whatever Branson’s intentions, the association underscores a broader pattern: elite figures who positioned themselves as moral arbiters while quietly maintaining ties to one of the era’s most notorious criminals.

Larry Summers:

Former Treasury Secretary and Harvard President Larry Summers also appears in Epstein-related images and records. Summers maintained a close relationship with Epstein, including social interactions during Epstein’s period of prominence.

When Epstein’s connections to Summers became public, he chose to step down from his position at Harvard. 

No criminal allegations were filed against him, and resignation does not imply guilt. But institutional consequences of that magnitude rarely occur without serious reputational risk.

Summers’s decision highlighted how deeply Epstein had embedded himself in elite academic and political circles—and how uncomfortable those institutions became once exposure was unavoidable.

The Epstein scandal demands seriousness, not selective outrage. Releasing raw grand jury materials or unverified accusations risks harming innocent people and undermining legitimate victims. 

The case of Alan Dershowitz illustrates that danger clearly. Dershowitz, who served as Epstein’s attorney, was falsely accused, fully exonerated, and forced to spend enormous resources defending his name.

Justice requires precision. Victims deserve truth and accountability. Innocent individuals deserve protection from reckless insinuation.

What cannot be justified is the media’s fixation on Donald Trump while minimizing or ignoring far deeper, longer, and better-documented relationships involving powerful Democrats and elite figures who continue to shape politics, academia, and philanthropy today.

The record does not support the narrative being pushed. It supports a far more uncomfortable conclusion: the Epstein scandal was not partisan, but the attempt to weaponize it has been.