Former President Invoice Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrive forward of the sixtieth inaugural ceremony on January 20, 2025, on the U.S. Capitol.
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Republicans on the Home Oversight Committee have launched video of depositions with former President Invoice Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton carried out as a part of the panel’s investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein information.
The Clintons have been deposed individually final week behind closed doorways, testimony that got here after they unsuccessfully fought a subpoena by the Republican-controlled committee. The pair finally agreed to sit down for hours of depositions after they have been threatened with contempt of Congress prices, although they’d requested to testify in public.
Over hours of testimony, the Clintons each denied data of Epstein’s crimes previous to his pleading responsible in 2008 to state prices in Florida for soliciting prostitution from an underage lady.
“I noticed nothing, and I did nothing flawed,” the previous president mentioned in a gap assertion shared forward of his deposition Friday within the Clintons’ hometown of Chappaqua, N.Y.
Whereas neither Clinton has been accused of any wrongdoing, Invoice Clinton reveals up a number of occasions within the trove of Epstein data that has been launched by the committee, together with in photographs.
The previous president informed the committee he met Epstein in 2001 or 2002 after having left the White Home. Clinton mentioned he was launched by Larry Summers, his onetime Treasury Secretary whose personal ties to Epstein have come below sharp scrutiny in latest months. He described their relationship as “cordial,” however mentioned he wouldn’t describe him as a pal.
Clinton says he reduce ties with Epstein previous to his 2008 conviction, and that whereas he did journey on Epstein’s aircraft, that journey was carried out as a part of his humanitarian work for the Clinton Basis.
“I assumed we had an understanding concerning the airplane that —that he would let me use the airplane to arrange my AIDS program around the globe if I agreed to speak to him about economics and politics.”
Invoice Clinton mentioned he saved his phrase — however they by no means talked about delicate authorities matters.
The previous president informed the committee that originally, he thought Epstein was “an attention-grabbing man.” However he mentioned, “there’s nothing that I noticed after I was round him that made me understand he was trafficking girls.” Clinton mentioned he by no means witnessed Epstein abuse younger girls or ladies, nor did he focus on sexual acts with him.
At one level within the deposition, Clinton was requested a couple of photograph from the information displaying him in a scorching tub seated subsequent to an unidentified individual. He mentioned the photograph was taken whereas on a visit to Brunei for the Clinton Basis’s AIDS initiative. Clinton mentioned he was there together with his touring social gathering, however didn’t know the opposite individual within the photograph and informed the committee he didn’t interact in any sexual exercise with the individual.
In her personal testimony on Thursday, Hillary Clinton denied ever having met Epstein. Talking to reporters after her deposition, Clinton mentioned she answered each one of many committee’s questions as totally as she might, reiterating she had no prior relationship with the convicted intercourse offender.
“I by no means met Jeffrey Epstein, by no means had any connection or communication with him,” she mentioned. Clinton mentioned she did know Epstein’s former affiliate Ghislaine Maxwell, however described her as an off-the-cuff acquaintance.
When requested about her relationship with Epstein, the previous secretary of state mentioned: “I do not recall ever speaking to Mr. Epstein. He wasn’t on my radar. He wasn’t anyone I had any connection to.”
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks to the press after her a deposition with the Home Oversight Committee in Chappaqua, New York, on February 26, 2026.
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The Clintons spent weeks preventing the panel’s subpoenas, however the former president says he agreed to testify as a result of, “America was constructed on the concept no individual is above the legislation, even presidents – particularly presidents.”
That’s an argument that Democrats on the committee have seized on, arguing that Clinton’s look earlier than the committee units a precedent that ought to require President Trump to finally reply questions from lawmakers.
Like Clinton, President Trump additionally seems within the information and equally denies having had any data of Epstein’s crimes. However Democrats say they’ve questions for Trump, together with why Epstein information associated to President Trump are lacking from the general public report, as NPR has beforehand reported.
Sam Gringlas contributed to this report
