The Clinton Presidential Center removed a trivia question from social media after a slew of snarky responses about former President Bill Clinton’s ties to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
In honor of World Typing Day, the presidential library commemorated Mr. Clinton’s time in the Oval Office by asking people to guess who received the first-ever email from the former president. The tweet included an old photo of Mr. Clinton typing on a 1990s-era laptop computer.
“On November 7, 1998, Pres. @BillClinton typed out and sent his first-ever email! Can you guess who it was to?” The now-deleted post said.
The question was immediately met with mockery with scores answering “Jeffrey Epstein.”
The Clinton Presidential Center initially sought to limit responses as a form of damage control before deleting the post entirely. Later, it clarified that Mr. Clinton’s first email was sent to astronaut John Glenn, who was in space.
Mr. Clinton’s association with Epstein, who died in jail awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, was documented in recently released court documents.
The unsealed court documents from Virginia Giuffre, who came forward with allegations against Epstein, include frequent references to Mr. Clinton, who is not accused of any wrongdoing.
In one document, Johanna Sjoberg, who also came forward with allegations against Epstein, revealed that the billionaire once said Mr. Clinton “likes” young girls.
“I knew he had dealings with Bill Clinton,” Ms. Sjoberg said. “I did not know they were friends until I read the Vanity Fair article about them going to Africa together.”
“He had said one time that Clinton likes them young, referring to girls,” she said.
A separate court document revealed that Ms. Giuffre sought to depose Mr. Clinton as part of her lawsuit against Epstein’s longtime romantic partner Ghislaine Maxwell because of what she described as his “close, personal relationship” with Epstein.
According to a 2011 email included in the court documents, Mr. Clinton walked into the offices of Vanity Fair to dissuade editors from writing an article about his “good friend” Epstein.
Former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter has strongly denied that the incident happened.
Mr. Clinton has long denied that he had a close personal relationship with Epstein, saying in 2019 that he last had contact with the millionaire financier more than 20 years ago.
Epstein, who was a convicted sex offender in Florida, died in a New York jail while awaiting a federal trial for sex trafficking in 2019. His death was ruled a suicide, but conspiracy theories about foul play persist.
• Jeff Mordock can be reached at jmordock@washingtontimes.com.
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