White House Chief of Staff Says Trump ‘Was Wrong’ About Bill Clinton Visiting Epstein’s Private Island: ‘There Is No Evidence’

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles said in a Vanity Fair profile published Tuesday, Dec. 16, that President Donald Trump “was wrong” when he accused former President Bill Clinton of visiting the private island of convicted s** offender Jeffrey Epstein.

In nearly a dozen interviews conducted over Trump’s first year back in office, Wiles told the magazine she had reviewed Epstein-related documents and acknowledged that Trump’s name appears in them.

Trump, 79, has repeatedly claimed Clinton visited Epstein’s private island, Little St. James — a site linked to allegations of underage s** trafficking. Speaking to reporters in Scotland over the summer, Trump said, “By the way, I never went to the island, and Bill Clinton went there, supposedly, 28 times.”

Wiles told Vanity Fair that Trump has provided no proof to back that allegation — and that the record does not support it.

“There is no evidence” those visits occurred, Wiles, 68, said. She also rejected Trump’s insinuations that the documents contained incriminating material about Clinton, adding, “The president was wrong about that.”

Clinton, 79, has long maintained that while he knew Epstein socially, he neither had knowledge of — nor participated in — any criminal activity.

In November, Trump publicly urged U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to open an investigation into Clinton and other Democrats’ connections to Epstein, a move that drew attention as questions continued to swirl around Trump’s own past relationship with the late financier.

The Vanity Fair profile was released in two parts on Tuesday and includes comments from others in Trump’s orbit, including Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, as well as homeland security adviser Stephen Miller and press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

After publication, Wiles criticized the piece in a statement, calling it a “disingenuously framed hit piece on me and the finest President, White House staff, and Cabinet in history.”

“Significant context was disregarded and much of what I, and others, said about the team and the President was left out of the story,” she said. “I assume, after reading it, that this was done to paint an overwhelmingly chaotic and negative narrative about the President and our team.”

Leavitt also defended Wiles in a statement, saying, “Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has helped President Trump achieve the most successful first 11 months in office of any President in American history.”

“President Trump has no greater or more loyal advisor than Susie,” Leavitt, 28, added. “The entire Administration is grateful for her steady leadership and united fully behind her.”

Last week, House Democrats released new photos showing Epstein alongside Trump, Clinton and other high-profile figures, including Woody Allen and Steve Bannon.

Epstein died by suicide in August 2019 at the Metropolitan Correction Center in Manhattan while awaiting trial on federal s*** trafficking for recruiting and transporting minors for Epstein’s abuse.

Trump has faced renewed scrutiny — including criticism from some supporters — over his administration’s handling of records tied to Epstein’s s** trafficking case. In November, Trump dismissed the files as “a hoax” and sought to further distance himself from them.

Wiles told Vanity Fair that FBI Director Kash Patel had long supported releasing the Epstein files, but she suggested his expectations about what they contained did not match what was actually there.

“For years, Kash has been saying, ‘Got to release the files, got to release the files,’ ” Wiles said. “And he’s been saying that with a view of what he thought was in these files that turns out not to be right.”