{"id":19415,"date":"2026-02-27T16:46:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bill-clinton-takes-his-turn-in-house-oversights-hot-seat\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:46:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:46:38","slug":"bill-clinton-takes-his-turn-in-house-oversights-hot-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bill-clinton-takes-his-turn-in-house-oversights-hot-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Clinton takes his turn in House Oversight’s hot seat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are gearing up to spend hours today grilling former President Bill Clinton about his relationship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and longtime co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell.<\/p>\n

It comes on the heels of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton\u2019s over six hour deposition Thursday, in compliance with a subpoena issued by the panel as part of its longrunning Epstein investigation.<\/p>\n

Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) told reporters in Chappaqua, New York, that members plan to ask about Epstein\u2019s visits to the White House during the Clinton administration; Epstein\u2019s emails boasting that he helped set up the Clinton Global Initiative and the Clinton Foundation; and photographs released by the Department of Justice that show the former president with unidentified women.<\/p>\n

Comer was flanked by Republican Reps. Eric Burlison of Missouri, John McGuire of Virginia, Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin, as well as South Carolina Reps. Nancy Mace and William Timmons.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one’s accusing anyone of any wrongdoing, but I think the American people have a lot of questions, and our House Oversight Committee is committed to getting answers,\u201d Comer said during a news conference before the deposition, adding that Hillary Clinton at several points the day before punted questions to her husband.<\/p>\n

Bill Clinton has maintained he was an acquaintance of Epstein\u2019s but stopped communicating with him at least a decade before the late financier\u2019s arrest in 2019 on federal sex trafficking charges. His spokesperson Angel Ure\u00f1a said on social media in 2019 that Bill Clinton traveled on Epstein\u2019s plane four times internationally in 2002 and 2003, adding that Secret Service details were present \u201con every leg of the trip.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton, during her testimony, denied ever meeting Epstein<\/u><\/a> and said she had no knowledge of his or Maxwell\u2019s crimes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it is fair to say that the vast majority of people who had contact with [Epstein] before his criminal pleas in \u201808 were like most people,\u201d she told reporters Thursday. \u201cThey did not know what he was doing, and I think that that is exactly what my husband will testify to tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Republicans at their Friday morning news conference said they were unconvinced, citing an email from Epstein saying the former secretary of State \u201clooks better in person.\u201d Mace claimed Hillary Clinton was \u201cscreaming\u201d during the deposition.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was unhinged, and I hope that President Clinton is less unhinged today than his wife was yesterday,\u201d Mace told reporters.<\/p>\n

Rep. Robert Garcia of California, the top Democrat on the committee, called that an unfair characterization.<\/p>\n

Garcia and other Democratic members of the committee \u2014 Reps. Yassamin Ansari of Arizona, Wesley Bell of Missouri and Maxwell Frost of Florida, as well as Virginia Reps. Suhas Subramanyan and James Walkinshaw \u2014 each took turns speaking to the press before Bill Clinton\u2019s deposition. They decried Republicans\u2019 lines of questioning during Hillary Clinton\u2019s testimony, saying it underscored the need for President Donald Trump to come before the committee, too.<\/p>\n

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), who helped lead the charge to force the Justice Department to release the Epstein files, said Friday that Bill Clinton\u2019s historic deposition sets a new standard for Oversight investigations overriding the so-called \u201cTrump rule,\u201d referring to the current president\u2019s defiance of a congressional subpoena of the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attacks on the Capitol.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow we have the Clinton rule, which is: The presidents and their families have to testify when Congress issues a subpoena,\u201d Khanna said. \u201cAnd that means that Donald Trump needs to come before our committee and explain what he knew about Epstein and explain why we have not had a full release of the documents.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump has maintained he had a falling out with Epstein years before his 2019 arrest and had no part in Epstein\u2019s criminal activities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are gearing up to spend hours today grilling former President Bill Clinton about his relationship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and longtime co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell. It comes on the heels of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton\u2019s over six hour deposition Thursday, in […]<\/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-19415","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\/19415","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=19415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}