Former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, on the occasion of the body’s investigation into the deceased convicted sex offender.
Obviously, she expected questions about her relationship with the financier, her parties, her planes and her mansions, the context of the massive abuse of underage girls, but she also found atrocities that had little to do with that and that scandalized the former White House candidate.
And her Republican opponents even questioned her about and about a conspiracy theory known as .
“In the end, everything has become quite unusual because they have started to ask me about UFOs and a series of questions about the Pizzagate“, according to his statements to the press at the end of his speech that the news portal has collected .
The liberal did not give details about either of those two very strange questions. If we all know what supposed beings from another planet are, Pizzagate, however, must be explained: it is a controversy revived in recent weeks, due to the recurrent appearance of the word “pizza” in the latest batches of documents on the Epstein case revealed (by the US Department of Justice.
There are more than 900 references to the Italian dish and that has reopened a conspiracy theory, on which there is no proven basis, which is promoted by the far-right followers of the current president.
Already when the US presidential elections were held in 2016, in which Clinton and Trump faced each other for the Oval Office, a rumor spread on the internet that the politician’s campaign manager had organized sexual trafficking of minors in a pizzeria in Washington. The rumor of Pizzagate It was based on several types of documents available online, reinterpreted and reexploited: emails from Democratic Party officials published on Wikileaks, photographs of the restaurant owner taken from his Instagram account or the Scotland Yard wanted notice linked to a facial reconstruction computer program, he explains in an analysis.
However, that theory has been debunked by a wide variety of organizations, including the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department, which is tasked with formal investigations. There is no case.
What happens is that members of the extreme right and other opponents of Clinton’s presidential campaign spread the theory on social networks such as 4chan, 8chan and The restaurant’s owner and staff also received death threats from conspiracy theorists. Little joke.
“Let the truth be revealed”
However, in his speech from his place of residence in Chappaqua (New York), where he was allowed to appear without going to Washington, Clinton wanted to “congratulate the chairman” of the Committee, “for raising a series of important questions, to which I have responded, about the nature of the investigation and the areas that I considered should be explored.” “I appreciate it; I want the truth to be revealed. It has been a reassuring way to put an end to such a long and repetitive statement,” he added, in an elegant gesture.
The former Secretary of State, who has claimed to have never met Epstein and met his wife, “coincidentally, like an acquaintance,” has said she is certain that the Justice Department’s files on the sex offender reveal nothing to suggest that her husband, the former president, knew of Epstein’s crimes.
Likewise, she has stated that she will not testify again and has criticized the Committee for not allowing the hearing to be public, as she and Bill Clinton – who will do this afternoon, under the same conditions – had requested, stating that they could have “spent the day more productively”, alluding above all to those out of place questions that have been asked of her.
One of the photos published by the Democratic Party in which Bill Clinton appears with Jeffrey Epstein, at a party in New York
Following his appearance, House Democrats have demanded that White House resident Trump also testify before Congress about his ties to Epstein. “The person who really is the former president, who we want to talk to, is President Donald Trump,” declared in statements reported by Bloomberg the highest-ranking Democrat on the Committee, Representative Robert García, who has alleged that a subpoena like that of former President Clinton “sets a precedent.”
Bill Clinton took several trips on Epstein’s private plane before he pleaded guilty in 2008 to charges in the state of Florida, which included procuring a minor for prostitution. Epstein also donated $1,000 to Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign in 1992 and $20,000 to Hillary Clinton’s US Senate campaign in 2000. A charity controlled by Epstein contributed an additional $25,000 to the Clintons’ private foundation.
In an interview with the in mid-February, Hillary Clinton said her husband had flown on Epstein’s private jet “for his charity work” and that she did not remember meeting Epstein. He added that he had met Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s accomplice, “on some occasions.”
One such occasion was her daughter Chelsea’s wedding in 2010, where Maxwell is photographed in the background with other guests. Maxwell told Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in an interview recorded last fall that she was dating tech billionaire Ted Waitt at the time, who she said was “very close friends” with Bill Clinton.
Maxwell was convicted in 2021 of recruiting girls to sexually abuse them and participating in some of the assaults. He is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence.
