WASHINGTON — Former President Bill Clinton is photographed reclining nearly naked in a hot tub with an unidentified woman at his waist in files kept by late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein — drawing strong reactions, including an ex-aide’s pronouncement that “this is his reckoning.”

Clinton, 79, is shown in many other images in the sprawling cache of Epstein files released Friday by the Justice Department — including with his arm wrapped around a young lady on a plane.

The ex-president is seen vacationing with the now-notorious predator in the UK, traveling with him to Brunei and Thailand and attending the 2002 wedding of Moroccan King Mohammed VI.

The extent of the Democrat’s appearance in the files drew shock shortly after the DOJ’s heavily redacted dump of thousands of records in compliance with a congressionally mandated deadline.

In one image, Clinton is shown frolicking in a swimming pool with Epstein’s girlfriend-turned-madam Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking crimes.

“This is his reckoning. I mean, if you turn on CNN, that’s what they are talking about. I’ve gotten a million texts about it,” said one former Clinton aide.

“People are like, ‘I can’t believe he was in a hot tub. Who’s the woman in there?’ She’s at, you know, body level. I mean, it’s, like, unbelievable. It’s just shocking.”

The ex-aide said Clinton’s heavily documented interactions with the pedophile are likely to shape public opinion after a yearlong feeding frenzy of conspiracy theories about powerful men who may have gotten away with misconduct.

“[Clinton] is Prince Andrew… He’s kinda done. He was already done before, but now he’s even more so,” the person said, comparing the two once-powerful men.

“People have to be brought to justice for if they did these things, there’s no question about it.”

The initial document dump on Friday is light on mentions of President Trump, fueling complaints from Democrats that the Justice Department did not comply with the law by releasing all the files.

The sitting president, who had been friends with Epstein until about 2004, emerged relatively unscathed, though a photo does show Epstein and a woman posing with a check that Trump allegedly signed in 1997 for the amount of $22,500.

A different previously released image of that check emerged from a 2003 birthday book for Epstein, with an attached note allegedly written by businessman Joel Pashcow saying: “Jeffrey showing early talents with money + women! Sells ‘fully depreciated’ [woman’s name] to Donald Trump for $22,500.”

The Wall Street Journal previously reported that the woman in question was a “wealthy European then in her 20s, [who] severed all ties with Epstein around 1997 and had no romantic relationship with either Epstein or Trump,” according to her lawyer.

The document dump features Clinton prominently, however, including showing the Democrat touring Winston Churchill’s Second World War war room in London.

Clinton appears charmed to be in Churchill’s old digs, beside 1940s-era maps, records and telephones — and surrounded by wax figures representing the British’s top military personnel and aides at the time.

Epstein, Maxwell, Clinton and Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger also were snapped at a dinner.

Jagger and Clinton could be seen cozying up to a woman whose face was blacked out in one image.

In the Southeast Asian nation of Brunei, Clinton and Epstein are photographed posing together in shiny silk shirts.

Other snaps show them taking in the sites of Thailand and traveling to Morocco.

Yet another photo album is labeled, “Clinton Trips-NY,LA,London.”

One picture shows the ex-president about a plane with disgraced pop icon Michael Jackson.

The Justice Department heavily redacted the files, meaning there may be additional embarrassing or potentially incriminating images lurking.

The redactions make it impossible for the public to know the identities of the women or girls photographed with Clinton, who was impeached in 1998 over his affair with a 22-year-old White House intern.

Some of the Justice Department’s redactions are confounding — for example, Epstein’s face is blacked out but not Clinton or Maxwell’s in a group photo published this week of their 2002 Morocco trip.

The Post exclusively reported, citing two sources close to the matter, that Clinton stunned his own staff by demanding that Epstein and Maxwell accompany him to the royal wedding, with the request being related to and granted by Moroccan authorities.

In another perplexing redaction, the DOJ placed a black box to cover Epstein’s apparently nude buttocks on a beach.

Clinton’s office furiously denied wrongdoing and sought to redirect attention to Trump, who was himself associated with Epstein in the 1990s and early 2000s.

“The White House hasn’t been hiding these files for months only to dump them late on a Friday to protect Bill Clinton,’ a Clinton spokesperson told the Daily Mail.

“This is about shielding themselves from what comes next, or from what they’ll try and hide forever. So they can release as many grainy 20-plus-year-old photos as they want, but this isn’t about Bill Clinton. Never has, never will be. Even Susie Wiles said Donald Trump was wrong about Bill Clinton.

“There are two types of people here,” the Clinton spokesman said. “The first group knew nothing and cut Epstein off before his crimes came to light. The second group continued relationships with him after. We’re in the first. No amount of stalling by people in the second group will change that. Everyone, especially MAGA, expects answers, not scapegoats.”

Trump resisted the bipartisan law requiring the DOJ to turn over all “unclassified records, documents, communications and investigative materials” on the case — trying unsuccessfully to cow four House Republicans to take their names off a discharge petition.

Friday marked the end of the 30-day deadline specified by the congressional transparency law, triggering the release.

Authors of the law, Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), said the Justice Department defied their Epstein Transparency Act with the heavy redactions and not turning over all the files.

“The DOJ’s document dump of hundreds of thousands of pages failed to comply with the law,” Khanna said.