{"id":1795060,"date":"2026-02-26T18:40:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1795060"},"modified":"2026-02-26T18:40:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:40:40","slug":"us-lawmakers-grill-hillary-clinton-in-epstein-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1795060","title":{"rendered":"US lawmakers grill Hillary Clinton in Epstein probe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Thursday testified to a US congressional committee\u00a0that she does not recall ever having met disgraced financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Republican-led House Oversight Committee, the main investigative committee of the US House of Representatives, interviewed the former first lady behind closed doors.<\/p>\n

Clinton delivered her testimony to lawmakers who traveled to the hamlet of\u00a0Chappaqua, New York,\u00a0where she has a home with former President Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton said in her opening statement to the House panel that she has no new information about Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I had no idea about their criminal activities. I do not recall ever encountering Mr. Epstein. I never flew on his plane or visited his island home or office,” she said in the statement that she posted to X.<\/p>\n

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer told reporters before the deposition\u00a0kicked off that he planned to release the video and the transcript of the interview after approval.<\/p>\n

High-stakes testimony puts spotlight on Clintons<\/h2>\n

Hillary Clinton challenged lawmakers in her testimony, saying, “If this committee is serious about learning the truth about Epstein’s trafficking crimes… it would ask [Trump] directly under oath about the tens of thousands of times he shows up in the Epstein files.”<\/p>\n

Former President\u00a0Bill Clinton, who had a documented\u00a0friendship with Epstein<\/a> and who flew on his plane a few times in the early 2000s, is set to appear for his deposition on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bill Clinton has denied wrongdoing and expressed regret for his association.<\/p>\n

The depositions are extraordinary, for compelling a former president to testify before a congressional committee and because\u00a0congressional investigators\u00a0have the support of Democrats who have called for transparency in\u00a0Bill Clinton’s\u00a0associations with Epstein.<\/p>\n

The inquiry comes months after the Clintons refused to testify but relented when lawmakers<\/a>\u00a0moved to hold them in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a subpoena it issued in August.<\/p>\n

Trump\u00a0faces calls to testify on Epstein<\/h2>\n

The top Democrat on the committee, Robert Garcia, called on US President Donald Trump to testify “to answer the questions that are being asked across this country from survivors.”<\/p>\n

Trump socialized extensively with Epstein<\/a> in the 1990s and 2000s, before his 2008\u00a0conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor. But Comer said evidence gathered by the panel does not implicate Trump.<\/p>\n

Undated photographs of Bill Clinton with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were released in December in the first tranche of documents released by Trump’s Justice Department.<\/p>\n

So far, the Justice Department has released more than 3 million pages of documents<\/a> tied to Epstein to comply with a law, the Epstein Files Transparency Act,\u00a0passed in 2025.<\/p>\n

Edited by:\u00a0Jenipher Camino Gonzalez\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Thursday testified to a US congressional committee\u00a0that she does not recall ever having met disgraced financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Republican-led House Oversight Committee, the main investigative committee of the US House of Representatives, interviewed the former first lady behind closed doors.<\/p>\n

Clinton delivered her testimony to lawmakers who traveled to the hamlet of\u00a0Chappaqua, New York,\u00a0where she has a home with former President Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton said in her opening statement to the House panel that she has no new information about Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I had no idea about their criminal activities. I do not recall ever encountering Mr. Epstein. I never flew on his plane or visited his island home or office,” she said in the statement that she posted to X.<\/p>\n

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer told reporters before the deposition\u00a0kicked off that he planned to release the video and the transcript of the interview after approval.<\/p>\n

High-stakes testimony puts spotlight on Clintons<\/h2>\n

Hillary Clinton challenged lawmakers in her testimony, saying, “If this committee is serious about learning the truth about Epstein’s trafficking crimes… it would ask [Trump] directly under oath about the tens of thousands of times he shows up in the Epstein files.”<\/p>\n

Former President\u00a0Bill Clinton, who had a documented\u00a0friendship with Epstein<\/a> and who flew on his plane a few times in the early 2000s, is set to appear for his deposition on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bill Clinton has denied wrongdoing and expressed regret for his association.<\/p>\n

The depositions are extraordinary, for compelling a former president to testify before a congressional committee and because\u00a0congressional investigators\u00a0have the support of Democrats who have called for transparency in\u00a0Bill Clinton’s\u00a0associations with Epstein.<\/p>\n

The inquiry comes months after the Clintons refused to testify but relented when lawmakers<\/a>\u00a0moved to hold them in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a subpoena it issued in August.<\/p>\n

Trump\u00a0faces calls to testify on Epstein<\/h2>\n

The top Democrat on the committee, Robert Garcia, called on US President Donald Trump to testify “to answer the questions that are being asked across this country from survivors.”<\/p>\n

Trump socialized extensively with Epstein<\/a> in the 1990s and 2000s, before his 2008\u00a0conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor. But Comer said evidence gathered by the panel does not implicate Trump.<\/p>\n

Undated photographs of Bill Clinton with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were released in December in the first tranche of documents released by Trump’s Justice Department.<\/p>\n

So far, the Justice Department has released more than 3 million pages of documents<\/a> tied to Epstein to comply with a law, the Epstein Files Transparency Act,\u00a0passed in 2025.<\/p>\n

Edited by:\u00a0Jenipher Camino Gonzalez\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Thursday testified to a US congressional committee\u00a0that she does not recall ever having met disgraced financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Republican-led House Oversight Committee, the main investigative committee of the US House of Representatives, interviewed the former first lady behind closed doors.<\/p>\n

Clinton delivered her testimony to lawmakers who traveled to the hamlet of\u00a0Chappaqua, New York,\u00a0where she has a home with former President Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton said in her opening statement to the House panel that she has no new information about Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I had no idea about their criminal activities. I do not recall ever encountering Mr. Epstein. I never flew on his plane or visited his island home or office,” she said in the statement that she posted to X.<\/p>\n

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer told reporters before the deposition\u00a0kicked off that he planned to release the video and the transcript of the interview after approval.<\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton challenged lawmakers in her testimony, saying, “If this committee is serious about learning the truth about Epstein’s trafficking crimes… it would ask [Trump] directly under oath about the tens of thousands of times he shows up in the Epstein files.”<\/p>\n

Former President\u00a0Bill Clinton, who had a documented\u00a0friendship with Epstein<\/a> and who flew on his plane a few times in the early 2000s, is set to appear for his deposition on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bill Clinton has denied wrongdoing and expressed regret for his association.<\/p>\n

The depositions are extraordinary, for compelling a former president to testify before a congressional committee and because\u00a0congressional investigators\u00a0have the support of Democrats who have called for transparency in\u00a0Bill Clinton’s\u00a0associations with Epstein.<\/p>\n

The inquiry comes months after the Clintons refused to testify but relented when lawmakers<\/a>\u00a0moved to hold them in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a subpoena it issued in August.<\/p>\n

The top Democrat on the committee, Robert Garcia, called on US President Donald Trump to testify “to answer the questions that are being asked across this country from survivors.”<\/p>\n

Trump socialized extensively with Epstein<\/a> in the 1990s and 2000s, before his 2008\u00a0conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor. But Comer said evidence gathered by the panel does not implicate Trump.<\/p>\n

Undated photographs of Bill Clinton with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were released in December in the first tranche of documents released by Trump’s Justice Department.<\/p>\n

So far, the Justice Department has released more than 3 million pages of documents<\/a> tied to Epstein to comply with a law, the Epstein Files Transparency Act,\u00a0passed in 2025.<\/p>\n

Edited by:\u00a0Jenipher Camino Gonzalez\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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