This undated, redacted photo released by the U.S. Department of Justice shows former President Bill Clinton walking with unknown people.
U.S. President Donald Trump made a fresh plea on Feb. 3 for Americans to move on from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, even as it left a prominent British politician facing a criminal probe on the other side of the Atlantic.
Former British ambassador to Washington Peter Mandelson resigned from the upper house of parliament amid allegations he passed confidential information to late sex offender Epstein.
The fallout from the latest release of millions of documents linked to Epstein continued in the United States too, where former president Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary will testify in Congress later this month.
Republican Trump insisted once again that he had been cleared by the newest trove of files as he faced renewed questions at the White House over the disgraced financier.
"Nothing came out about me other than it was a conspiracy against me, literally, by Epstein and other people. But I think it's time now for the country to maybe get on to something else like health care or something that people care about," Trump said.
Trump added that it was "not a Republican, it's a Democrat problem," in a bid to turn the issue back to the Clintons, and away from the mention in the files of allies including his Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and billionaire Elon Musk.
"It's a shame," he said of the Clintons.
Hillary Clinton, the Democratic former U.S. secretary of state who lost to Trump in the 2016 election, and her husband will now testify in a U.S. House investigation into Epstein on Feb. 26 and 27.
Trump spent months trying to block the disclosure of files linked to Epstein, before relenting late last year when an initial tranche of files was released.
Fresh documents released by the U.S. Justice Department last week contained emails between prominent figures and Epstein, who died by suicide in prison in 2019, often revealing warm relations, illicit financial dealings and private photos.
