{"id":19420,"date":"2026-02-27T20:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T20:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-oversight-chair-bill-clinton-punts-question-to-committee-on-whether-trump-should-testify-in-epstein-probe\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T20:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T20:02:21","slug":"house-oversight-chair-bill-clinton-punts-question-to-committee-on-whether-trump-should-testify-in-epstein-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-oversight-chair-bill-clinton-punts-question-to-committee-on-whether-trump-should-testify-in-epstein-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"House Oversight chair: Bill Clinton punts question to committee on whether Trump should testify in Epstein probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former President Bill Clinton told members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that it\u2019s \u201cfor you to decide\u201d whether to call up the current president, Donald Trump, to testify in the panel\u2019s Jeffrey Epstein investigation, chair James Comer told reporters Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[He] went on to say that, \u2018President Trump has never said anything to me to make me think he was involved and he met with Epstein,\u2019\u201d Comer, a Kentucky Republican, recalled Bill Clinton telling the committee during his deposition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know there\u2019s a lot of curiosity about President Trump,\u201d Comer continued. \u201cI thought that was an interesting thing that President Clinton said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Rep. Robert Garcia of California, the top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, said in a subsequent news conference during a break in the deposition proceedings that Comer\u2019s remarks were not an \u201caccurate description\u201d of Bill Clinton\u2019s testimony.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia declined to share more details, accusing Republicans of breaking the rules with their disclosures about what was being discussed inside the room. But he reiterated that Trump should be subpoenaed in the panel\u2019s Epstein probe.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) said that he now, in fact, had \u201cnew questions\u201d about Trump\u2019s alleged falling out with Epstein. Trump has said the two men fell out years before Epstein\u2019s 2019 arrest and that he had no part in Epstein\u2019s criminal activities. Trump also has not been charged with any crimes.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, during her testimony before the committee Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/02\/26\/youll-have-to-ask-my-husband-house-republicans-say-hillary-clinton-punted-questions-on-epstein-00802742\" target=\"_blank\"><u>denied ever meeting Epstein<\/u><\/a> and said she had no knowledge of his or Maxwell\u2019s crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Neither of the Clintons have been accused of wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Bill Clinton told members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that it\u2019s \u201cfor you to decide\u201d whether to call up the current president, Donald Trump, to testify in the panel\u2019s Jeffrey Epstein investigation, chair James Comer told reporters Friday. \u201c[He] went on to say that, \u2018President Trump has never said anything [&hellip;]<\/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-19420","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\/19420","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=19420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}