Bill Clinton to testify before House committee investigating Epstein links | Bill Clinton
Former President Bill Clinton is scheduled to testify Friday before a congressional committee investigating his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, a day after Hillary Clinton testified before the committee and called the proceedings “partisan political theater” and an “insult to the American people.”
In her speech to the House Oversight Committee, Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state, insisted Thursday that she never met Epstein.
The former Democratic president, however, traveled several times aboard Epstein’s private jet in the early 2000s, but said he never visited his island.
Clinton, who engaged in an extramarital affair while president and was accused of sexual misconduct by three women, also appears in a photo from the newly released files, in a hot tub with Epstein and a woman whose identity has been redacted.
Clinton has denied the sexual misconduct allegations and has not been charged with any crimes. He has also not been accused of wrongdoing related to Epstein.
Epstein visited the White House at least 17 times during the early years of Clinton’s presidency, according to White House visitor logs cited in media reports. Clinton said she severed ties with him around 2005, before the disgraced financier, who died by suicide in 2019, pleaded guilty to solicitation of a minor in Florida.
The House committee subpoenaed the Clintons in August. They initially refused to testify, but agreed after Republicans threatened to hold them in contempt.
The Clintons have requested that their depositions be made public, with the former president saying that doing so behind closed doors would amount to a “kangaroo court.”
“Let’s stop the games and do this the right way: in a public hearing,” Clinton said on X earlier this month.
The chairman of the committee, James Comer, did not grant their request and the debates will take place behind closed doors with a video to be released later.
Hillary Clinton’s proceedings were briefly halted on Thursday after Rep. Lauren Boebert leaked an image of Clinton testifying.
During the full day of deposition, Clinton said she had no information about Epstein and did not remember ever meeting him.
Before the deposition, Comer said it would be a long interview and that the one with Bill Clinton would be “even longer.”
