Former President Invoice Clinton is about to present a closed-door deposition to the Home Oversight Committee on Friday as a part of its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein in Chappaqua, New York.
The previous president’s testimony comes a day after the Republican-led committee questioned former secretary of state and first lady Hillary Clinton over the couple’s dealings with the convicted intercourse offender.
In her deposition Thursday, Hillary Clinton mentioned she didn’t know Epstein, couldn’t recall ever encountering him and by no means visited him on his island or at his dwelling or workplace.
Hillary Clinton mentioned after her deposition that the committee requested her time and again if she knew Epstein and there have been questions that had been off topic — about UFOs and the debunked “Pizzagate” conspiracy.
“So if they will fulfill their tasks to actually examine the investigations, which is what they initially mentioned was the scope of their work, I feel they may have spent the day extra productively,” she mentioned.
On this Sept. 24, 2025, file photograph, former President Invoice Clinton speaks in the course of the Clinton International Initiative in New York.
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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 conduct by the previous president or his spouse in connection along with his prior relationship with Epstein.
“Nobody is accusing, at this second, the Clintons of any wrongdoing,” Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer mentioned Thursday morning forward of Hillary Clinton’s deposition. “They are going to have due course of, however we’ve lots of questions, and the aim of the entire investigation is to attempt to perceive many issues about Epstein.”
Invoice Clinton’s affiliation with Epstein was first famous publicly in 2002 after reporters realized of the previous president’s flight that yr on Epstein’s jet for a humanitarian mission to a number of African nations.
Invoice Clinton told New York Magazine by way of a spokesperson on the time that “Jeffrey is each a extremely profitable financier and a dedicated philanthropist with a eager sense of world markets and an in-depth information of twenty first century science.”
Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s co-conspirator who was sentenced to twenty years in jail for intercourse trafficking and different crimes mentioned in a recorded interview final yr with Deputy Lawyer Basic Todd Blanche, that it was she, not Epstein, who had a friendship with Invoice Clinton, and that she was the one who instructed and arranged his journeys on Epstein’s plane.
The Clintons had been subpoenaed to look underneath oath in entrance of the committee for a deposition in January, however failed to comply, arguing the subpoenas had been with out authorized benefit. Relatively, they proposed a four-hour transcribed interview as a substitute.
David Kendall, the Clintons’ lawyer, argued that the couple has no info related to the committee’s investigation of the federal authorities’s dealing with of investigations into Epstein and Maxwell, and shouldn’t be required to look for in-person testimony.
Kendall contended the Clintons ought to be permitted to supply the restricted info they must the committee in writing.
Comer had lengthy threatened to carry the Clintons in contempt in the event that they failed to look earlier than the committee, so once they did not, a contempt decision was drafted and put to a vote.
The Oversight Committee passed the contempt resolution with 9 Democrats voting in favor of it, teeing it up for a full Home vote.
On the final minute, simply earlier than the decision was to be voted on within the Home, the Clintons agreed to sit down for a deposition, suspending additional consideration of a contempt vote.
Democrats on the committee mentioned they hope this week’s testimony from the Clintons spark Republican committee members to analyze extra of Epstein’s ties to President Donald Trump.
Trump has repeatedly denied any information of Epstein’s crimes and has mentioned that he minimize off contact along with his former pal greater than 20 years in the past.
Whereas the Clintons have agreed to talk with the committee behind closed doorways, they’ve nonetheless pushed for public hearings as a part of the committee’s investigation.
“I cannot sit idly as they use me as a prop in a closed-door kangaroo courtroom by a Republican Social gathering operating scared,” Invoice Clinton wrote in a prolonged put up on X. “If they need solutions, let’s cease the video games & do that the correct approach: in a public listening to, the place the American folks can see for themselves what that is actually about.”
