{"id":19393,"date":"2026-02-26T16:46:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/oversight-republicans-tout-bipartisan-support-for-hillary-clintons-deposition\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T16:46:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:46:49","slug":"oversight-republicans-tout-bipartisan-support-for-hillary-clintons-deposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/oversight-republicans-tout-bipartisan-support-for-hillary-clintons-deposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Oversight Republicans tout bipartisan support for Hillary Clinton\u2019s deposition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Republican members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee emphasized the bipartisan demand for Hillary Clinton to share what she knows about Jeffrey Epstein and his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell, ahead of the former secretary of State\u2019s closed-door deposition Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

Committee Chair James Comer<\/a> of Kentucky \u2014 flanked by Republican Reps. Lauren Boebert<\/a> of Colorado, Eric Burlison<\/a> of Missouri, Michael Cloud<\/a> of Texas, John McGuire<\/a> of Virginia and Anna Paulina Luna<\/a> of Florida, alongside South Carolina Reps. Nancy Mace<\/a> and William Timmons<\/a> \u2014 told reporters in Chappaqua, New York, that they are focused on better understanding Epstein\u2019s accumulation of wealth and social cachet.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis isn\u2019t a partisan witch hunt,\u201d said Comer. \u201cThis was a motion \u2014 a bipartisan motion, supported by the Democrats \u2014 to bring the Clintons in. So I don\u2019t think it\u2019s any type of being unfair in any way to the Clintons. They\u2019ve never answered questions, unlike President Trump, who gets questioned every day by just about every one of you about his knowledge or involvement with Epstein.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neither Hillary Clinton nor her husband \u2014 former President Bill Clinton, who will be deposed by the committee Friday \u2014 have been accused of any wrongdoing. They also have denied knowledge of any sex offenses by Epstein and Maxwell. <\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton, who has said she does not recall meeting Epstein, previously accused the Oversight panel of trying to shift focus away<\/a> from President Donald Trump\u2019s documented associations with Epstein. Bill Clinton has acknowledged flying on Epstein\u2019s plane on several occasions but has said he never visited Epstein\u2019s private island.<\/p>\n

Comer clarified that the panel is not accusing Hillary Clinton of wrongdoing but noted that emails released by the Department of Justice as part of its Epstein files disclosure showed that Epstein and Maxwell discussed support for the Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative.<\/p>\n

Democratic members of the Oversight panel, also addressing reporters Thursday morning, emphasized their interest in questioning anyone who appears to have close associations with Epstein but voiced concerns that their Republican colleagues are using the Clintons\u2019 depositions for political gain.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s get President Trump in front of our committee to answer the questions that are being asked across this country, from survivors, from those have been brutally attacked and raped \u2014 sometimes as children,\u201d said Rep. Robert Garcia<\/a> of California, the panel\u2019s top Democrat.<\/p>\n

He was joined by Democratic Rep. Yassamin Ansari<\/a> of Arizona and Reps. Suhas Subramanyam<\/a> and James Walkinshaw<\/a>, both of Virginia.<\/p>\n

Thursay’s deposition marks one of the most high-profile moments to date in the committee\u2019s Epstein probe, as lawmakers seek to demonstrate momentum in an investigation that has drawn intense public attention but has yet to produce criminal charges.<\/p>\n

For House Republicans, the testimony also serves as a test<\/a> of how far the committee is willing \u2014 or able \u2014 to push an inquiry that has so far generated no prosecutions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republican members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee emphasized the bipartisan demand for Hillary Clinton to share what she knows about Jeffrey Epstein and his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell, ahead of the former secretary of State\u2019s closed-door deposition Thursday morning. Committee Chair James Comer of Kentucky \u2014 flanked by Republican Reps. Lauren Boebert […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}