Bill Clinton slams the Republican Party for using him as a ‘pillar’ in the Epstein investigation
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also called for a public hearing earlier this week and made similar comments. Both Clintons have agreed to make 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 will appear for a deposition on February 26, while Bill Clinton will testify the next day, February 27.
In a letter to Comer, the Clintons’ attorney, Jon Skladany, said an open hearing “best fits our fairness concerns” while leaving the final decision to the committee chairman.
Comer has said the statements will be videotaped and both the recordings and transcripts will be released publicly. He also told Newsmax that the Clintons would be welcome to testify at a public hearing afterward if they still wanted to do so.
The former president has rejected that approach.
“Who benefits from this scheme? It is not Epstein’s victims, who deserve justice. Not the public, who deserves the truth. It only serves partisan interests. This is not fact-finding, it is pure politics,” he wrote.
