Bill and Hillary Clinton to Testify in Epstein Investigation
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has also called for a public hearing, making similar remarks earlier this week. Both Clintons have agreed to sit for closed-door depositions after the House Oversight Committee threatened to hold them in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with subpoenas related to Epstein. The subpoenas explicitly called for depositions rather than public hearings.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer said Hillary Clinton is scheduled to appear for a deposition on Feb. 26, with Bill Clinton set to testify the following day, Feb. 27.
In a letter to Comer, the Clintons’ attorney, Jon Skladany, said an open hearing “will best suit our concerns about fairness,” while leaving the final decision to the committee chairman.
Comer has said the depositions will be videotaped and that both the recordings and transcripts will be released publicly. He also told Newsmax that the Clintons would be welcome to testify in a public hearing afterward if they still wished to do so.
The former president has rejected that approach.
“Who benefits from this arrangement? It’s not Epstein’s victims, who deserve justice. Not the public, who deserve the truth. It serves only partisan interests. This is not fact-finding, it’s pure politics,” he wrote.
