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   At least half a dozen top Trump administration officials appear in the   
   Jeffrey Epstein files.   tRUMP is a known sex offender.   He's been sued   
   for sex assault dozens of times.   
      
      
   Feb. 14, 2026, 5:00 AM EST   
   By Dareh Gregorian   
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   At least a half-dozen top officials in the current Trump administration   
   have connections to Jeffrey Epstein, according to an NBC News review of   
   some of the over 3 million documents the Justice Department has released.   
      
   The degree to which each individual was connected to Epstein varies   
   significantly, from a single email to years of communications. President   
   Donald Trump, who had a lengthy relationship with Epstein, is mentioned   
   thousands of times in the files. Trump has never been accused by   
   authorities of any wrongdoing connected to Epstein, and has said he parted   
   ways with him in the mid-2000s because he was a "creep. " He has also   
   denied any wrongdoing.   
      
   During a testy oversight hearing on Wednesday. Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vt. ,   
   pressed Attorney General Pam Bondi on whether any current administration   
   officials have been questioned by the Justice Department about their ties   
   to Epstein.   
      
   "I'm stunned that you want to continue talking about Epstein, " Bondi   
   replied while sidestepping the question.   
      
   In a post on Truth Social on Thursday, Trump praised Bondi's appearance at   
   the Senate hearing and claimed that the files provide "conclusively" that   
   he "has been 100% exonerated. "   
      
   Some officials from previous Democratic administrations have appeared in   
   the files — including former President Bill Clinton, his former Treasury   
   Secretary Larry Summers, and former Obama White House counsel Kathy   
   Ruemmler.   
      
   Ruemmler announced this week that she would leave her position as Goldman   
   Sachs' top lawyer amid blowback over her extensive emails with Epstein.   
   Ruemmler has said she was friendly with Epstein only in the context of   
   being a criminal defense attorney and that she regrets ever having known   
   him.   
      
   Summers announced in November that he was taking a leave of absence from   
   his teaching at Harvard University and would step back from other public   
   commitments. Summers said in November that he was "deeply ashamed" of   
   emails that came out last year showing him corresponding with Epstein as   
   recently as July 2019. He has not been accused of any wrongdoing in   
   connection with Epstein's crimes.   
      
   Clinton has said that he cut ties with Epstein before the financier was   
   accused in 2006 of having sex with a minor. His spokesperson said the   
   emails "prove Bill Clinton did nothing and knew nothing. " He has not been   
   accused of any wrongdoing in connection with Epstein by authorities.   
      
   Two other ex-Trump administration officials — former DOGE chief Elon Musk   
   and former chief strategist Steve Bannon — also made appearances in the   
   files. Neither has been accused of any wrongdoing in connection with   
   Epstein's crimes.   
      
   Alex Acosta, who was Trump's Labor secretary during his first term, led the   
   first federal criminal probe into Epstein as U. S. attorney for the   
   Southern District of Florida. Acosta approved a much-maligned secret   
   nonprosecutorial agreement that allowed Epstein to plead guilty in 2008 to   
   lesser state charges, which helped him avoid potentially decades of jail   
   time. Acosta has defended the plea deal and said that his office "acted   
   appropriately" given the context of the 2008 case. "Times have changed, and   
   coverage of this case has certainly changed, " he said in 2019 after   
   Epstein's arrest in New York.   
      
   Reached for comment, a White House spokesperson referred NBC News to   
   remarks Trump made on Thursday about Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who   
   admitted this week to visiting Epstein's island in 2012.   
      
   "No I wasn't aware of it, " he said of Lutnick's trip, adding, "I actually   
   haven't spoken to him about it, I wasn't, but from what I hear, he was   
   there with his wife and children. And I guess in some cases some people   
   were. I wasn't. I was never there. Somebody will someday say that. I was   
   never there. "   
      
   No major U. S. political figure has been accused by law enforcement of any   
   crimes and all have denied wrongdoing. A joint DOJ-FBI memo released last   
   year found that there was no evidence of a so-called "client list" and that   
   no one else would be investigated in connection with Epstein.   
      
   Here's a look at administration officials' ties to Epstein and his co-   
   conspirator in a sex tracking ring, Ghislaine Maxwell:   
   Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz   
      
   A 2016 email from the former TV personality to Epstein appeared to contain   
   an invitation to a Valentine's Day party in 2016 — three years before   
   Epstein was charged in a federal sex trafficking case in New York, and   
   eight years after he pleaded guilty in Florida to procuring a person under   
   18 for prostitution and felony solicitation of prostitution.   
   Dr. Mehmet Oz Visits "Varney & Co. "   
   Mehmet Oz. John Lamparski / Getty Images   
      
   "Mehmet and Lisa Oz's Valentine's Celebration, " read the subject line of   
   the February 2016 email to Epstein. The email shows a link to a Paperless   
   Post invitation that is no longer active. Another link in the email appears   
   to show the couple's Palm Beach address for the event.   
      
   It's unclear if Epstein attended the event. The Centers for Medicare &   
   Medicaid Services did not respond to a request for comment.   
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   Stephen Feinberg, the billionaire financier who's now the No. 2 official at   
   the Pentagon, makes numerous appearances in the newly released files in   
   connection with the business he founded, Cerberus Capital Management.   
   Stephen Feinberg side profile   
   Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg. Win McNamee / Getty Images file   
      
   Details of their connection are murky: there are numerous business   
   documents involving Cerberus that include Feinberg's name over a span of   
   years between 2009 and 2018, including some involving Deutsche Bank, one of   
   the banks Epstein was known to do business with. The documents contain an   
   email exchange between officials at Deutsche Bank in which the bank's   
   compliance staff appear to be conducting a review of Cerberus and   
   Feinberg's accounts.   
      
   It's unclear why the documents were in the Epstein files.   
      
   Cerberus did not respond to a request for comment and a spokesperson for   
   the Pentagon declined comment.   
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   Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. also appears in   
      
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