Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday made it clear that despite the fact that she and former President Invoice Clinton agreed to a closed-door deposition, they’re persevering with to push for a public listening to as a part of the Home Oversight Committee’s probe into convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“For six months, we engaged Republicans on the Oversight Committee in good religion. We informed them what we all know, below oath,” she wrote on X. “They ignored all of it. They moved the goalposts and turned accountability into an train in distraction.”
“So let’s cease the video games. If you’d like this combat, [Rep. James Comer], let’s have it — in public. You like to speak about transparency. There’s nothing extra clear than a public listening to, cameras on. We can be there,” she posted.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks throughout the Clinton World Initiative, Sept. 24, 2025, in New York.
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In response to Hillary Clinton’s feedback, the GOP Oversight Committee issued a statement on X Thursday, saying the Clintons are going to “attempt to spin the details” and that their legal professionals “stated their shoppers accepted the phrases of the depositions.”
Earlier this week, the Clintons agreed to sit for closed depositions on Epstein after the GOP-led Home Oversight Committee threatened to carry them in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with its subpoenas regarding Epstein.
Comer, the committee’s chairman, introduced on Tuesday that Hillary Clinton is scheduled to testify on Feb. 26. Invoice Clinton will sit for deposition the next day, Feb. 27.
For months, the Clintons had insisted that the subpoenas have been with out authorized benefit. Comer had pushed again, saying the Clintons should not above the legislation and should adjust to a subpoena.
Chairman of the Home Oversight and Accountability Committee Rep. James Comer speaks to reporter as he leaves the U.S. Capitol, February 3, 2026 in Washington.
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A letter from the Clintons’ lawyer Jon Skladany to Comer additionally stated an open listening to “will finest swimsuit our issues about equity,” citing the requirement that the interviews be videotaped — however in the end left the choice about whether or not to carry a listening to or a deposition as much as Comer.
The subpoenas the committee despatched to the Clintons have been particularly for a closed-door deposition. That’s what will happen, and Comer stated a public listening to is welcome after that if the Clintons need to are available in.
“The deposition can be made public, it is going to be audio, video and the transcripts can be launched,” Comer stated in an interview on Newsmax on Wednesday.
“Depositions are at all times the popular technique of getting info from a witness. If you happen to take a look at historical past, congressional hearings, they could be entertaining, however they don’t seem to be very substantive … So, we will do the depositions. That is what the subpoena is for,” Comer stated. “And after the depositions, if the Clintons need extra, they’re greater than welcome to come back to the Home Oversight Committee after they’re deposed. In the event that they need to testify in a public listening to in entrance of the Oversight Committee, they’re greater than welcome to try this.”
Neither Invoice Clinton nor Hillary Clinton has been accused of wrongdoing and each deny having any information of Epstein’s crimes. No Epstein survivor or affiliate has ever made a public allegation of wrongdoing or inappropriate habits by the previous president or his spouse in connection together with his prior relationship with Epstein.
President Donald Trump, in an interview with NBC Information on Wednesday, repeated that he thinks it is a “disgrace” that the Clintons will sit for depositions.
“It bothers me that anyone goes after Invoice Clinton. See, I like Invoice Clinton. I nonetheless like Invoice Clinton,” Trump stated.
