JPMorgan Chase Fires Back After Trump Orders DOJ Investigation Into ‘Involvement’ With Jeffrey Epstein

JPMorgan Chase hit back at President Donald Trump’s directive to the Department of Justice to investigate the banking giant’s “involvement ” with deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein on Friday.

Trump wrote on Truth Social Friday:

Now that the Democrats are using the Epstein Hoax, involving Democrats, not Republicans, to try and deflect from their disastrous SHUTDOWN, and all of their other failures, I will be asking A.G. Pam Bondi, and the Department of Justice, together with our great patriots at the FBI, to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s involvement and relationship with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, J.P. Morgan, Chase, and many other people and institutions, to determine what was going on with them, and him. This is another Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, with all arrows pointing to the Democrats. Records show that these men, and many others, spent large portions of their life with Epstein, and on his “Island.” Stay tuned!!!

Last month, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) sent a letter to JPMorgan Chase, as well as to Deutsche Bank, Bank of America, and Bank of New York Mellon, writing, “Can JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPMorgan) help Congress understand how Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and their co-conspirators were able to use your bank and others to conduct more than $1.5 billion in suspicious financial transactions to operate their international sex trafficking ring for years without ever being caught?”

The New York Times reported that JPMorgan Chase did, in fact, alert the government to suspicious banking behavior just weeks after Epstein’s death in 2019. The report flagged tens of millions of dollars of potentially suspicious transactions involving Epstein and prominent Wall Street and business figures.

The Times added that “The nature of the transactions, as well as Mr. Epstein’s role in them, is unclear.”

CNN’s Dana Bash read the bank’s statement on Friday’s Inside Politics.

“The statement says, ‘The government had information about his crimes and failed to share it with us or other banks. We regret any association we had with the man, but did not help him commit his heinous acts. We ended our relationship with him years before his arrest on sex trafficking charges,'” said Bash.

Emails between Epstein and Maxwell came to light this week that repeatedly mentioned Donald Trump, referring to him as “dirty Donald” who spent “hours” at Epstein’s house with one of his teenaged victims.

Trump admits no wrongdoing in relation to Epstein. Next week, the House of Representative is set to vote on releasing all of the Epstein files currently in the custody of the Department of Justice.

Watch the clip above via CNN.