1 of 5 | Secret service personnel and local law enforcement prepare to do a security sweep of the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center where Bill and Hillary Clinton are to be deposed by the House Oversight Committee regarding the Epstein probe in Chappaqua, N.Y., Thursday. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will testify Thursday and former President Bill Clinton will testify Friday as part of Congress’s investigation into the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is scheduled to face the House Oversight Committee in New York Thursday after months of back-and-forth between her and the committee over testimony terms.
Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, initially said they would testify in a public hearing, but committee chair James Comer, R-Ky., said the committee’s practice is to do interviews behind closed doors first, then hold hearings.
The House of Representatives was close to holding a bipartisan vote to hold them in contempt for ignoring a subpoena when the Clintons relented and agreed to be questioned in private.
Bill Clinton’s deposition is scheduled for Friday. Neither Clinton has been accused of any crimes, and both have called for the full release of the Epstein files.
The depositions will be in Chappaqua, N.Y., where the Clintons live. At least 10 Republican members and nine Democrats are expected to attend, CBS News reported.
Clinton has said that she and her husband have little information to offer the committee.
“Other witnesses were asked to testify. They gave written statements under oath. We offered that,” she told the BBC last week. “Why do they want to pull us into this? To divert attention from President [Donald] Trump. This is not complicated.”
There are undated photos of Bill Clinton in the Epstein files with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who died by suicide in prison in 2019.
Bill Clinton’s spokesperson, Angel Ureña, has said he flew on Epstein’s plane four times in 2002 and 2003. The flights were for trips for the Clinton Foundation.
Hillary Clinton has said she doesn’t believe she ever met Epstein, but she was familiar with his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell is serving 20 years in prison for her sex trafficking conviction.
Maxwell told Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche last year that, “President Clinton was my friend, not Epstein’s friend,” NBC News reported. She said she offered the plane to the former president. She also said that Bill Clinton was a close friend of billionaire Ted Waitt, founder of Gateway computers, whom she dated from 2003 to 2010. Maxwell and Waitt attended Chelsea Clinton’s wedding in 2010.
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks during a press conference after the weekly Republican Senate caucus luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo
