The Oversight Committee of the House of Representatives began this Thursday, after 11:00 a.m. (local time, six more in mainland Spain), the interrogation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about her relationship with him. It is a statement behind closed doors, in Chappaqua (New York State), where the Clintons have a house. This Friday, and on that same stage, it will be the turn of her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
Hillary Clinton prepared a statement that she read to the deputies and published simultaneously on her X account. In it, she assures that she does not remember “ever meeting Epstein.” “The committee justified this subpoena based on the assumption that I have information related to Jeffrey Epstein and [su cómplice] Ghislaine Maxwell. “I will be clear: I have no information about his criminal activities,” can be read in the text, which adds:
The interrogation was interrupted after 1:00 p.m., when a influencer MAGA (Make America Great Again) named Benny Johnson posted an image of Hillary Clinton on his Instagram while she was testifying. Johnson claimed that the photo had been passed to him by Colorado Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert. That leak—and its subsequent publication—represents a violation of congressional rules, which led to the temporary suspension of the interrogation. The House committee has agreed to release a recording of Thursday’s questions and answers when it becomes available.
The closed-door summons comes after months of a tug-of-war between the couple, which still wields considerable power over the Democratic Party, and the House Oversight Committee, controlled by Republicans. When Bill Clinton takes the floor tomorrow, it will be the first time a former president has been forced to testify before Congress.
“Like any decent person, I have been horrified by what we have discovered about his crimes [de Epstein]”Writes Hillary Clinton in her statement. “It is inconceivable that he initially received a reprimand in 2008, which allowed him to continue his predatory practices for another decade.” Clinton is referring to the light sentence for two state crimes that sent the millionaire pedophile to prison for 13 months. He also ended up included in a sex offender registry, which did not prevent many rich and powerful men from maintaining their relationship with him after that, according to millions of documents. of his case that have been coming to light in recent weeks.
On board the plane
Nothing indicates that this was the case of her husband, Bill Clinton, and witnessed in dozens of photographs that came out before Christmas, in the first declassification of Epstein documents held by the Department of Justice, obliged by law to publish them. These images, although compromising, do not prove that Clinton committed any crime or that he had knowledge of those of the financier, who died in 2019 in a cell in New York, in what the coroner concluded was a suicide, while waiting to be tried for the second time.
It is proven that the former Democratic president met Epstein through his daughter Chelsea and Maxwell, and that he boarded their private planes “on at least 26 occasions” between 2002 and 2003, according to flight logs, as part of the Clinton Foundation’s tasks. Therefore, before the first trial. The former president has flatly denied that he traveled to the millionaire’s private island in the Caribbean, the scene of many of his crimes.
“Mr. President [del Comité, el republicano James Comer]his investigation is supposed to evaluate the federal government’s handling of the investigations and prosecutions of Epstein and his crimes,” adds Hillary Clinton. “He has not held any public hearings and has refused to allow the media to attend, even today, despite having defended the need for transparency on dozens of occasions,” reads the statement released by the former Secretary of State.
In addition, Hillary Clinton believes that they are trying to “protect a political party and a public official, instead of seeking truth and justice for victims and survivors, as well as for the public who also want to get to the bottom of this matter. My heart aches for the victims. And I am furious for them.”
Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 presidential election to President Donald Trump, who was friends with Epstein for 15 years. The two broke up, according to the Republican’s account, in 2004, two years before the police in Palm Beach (Florida), where they both had mansions, began to investigate the millionaire pedophile’s first reports of assaults on minors. That was the beginning of a process that led to the light sentence in 2008.
There is also no evidence that incriminates him. And it is not planned that the Committee of
Her former rival at the polls stated in an interview with the BBC last week that she and her husband “have nothing to hide.” He also said he met with Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for his involvement in the financier’s sex trafficking ring, “on a few occasions.”
Before this Thursday’s statement, Republican Comer spoke in Chappaqua, to remember that the committee he chairs worked for six months to have the couple appear, and that, when they threatened not to do so, they requested that they be declared in contempt. “I think one thing that surprised the Clintons was that they assumed that the Democrats on the committee would vote against it, and the majority didn’t,” Comer said. “I think that shows that this investigation is serious. It’s an investigation with bipartisan support.”
