Trump has stated that he is having Attorney General Pam Bondi direct an investigation into the relationships of Jeffrey Epstein and looking into who he was close with, including Bill Clinton, JPMorgan Chase, and others. Some have noticed that this may be a tactic to avoid releasing the files, as Trump has not chosen to explicitly release the files, and instead is choosing to do this. He has stated that he did not know anything about Epstein's "sex-trafficking operation."