Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday made it clear that regardless that she and former President Invoice Clinton agreed to a closed-door deposition, they’re persevering with to push for a public listening to as a part of the Home Oversight Committee’s probe into convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“For six months, we engaged Republicans on the Oversight Committee in good religion. We instructed them what we all know, beneath oath,” she wrote on X. “They ignored all of it. They moved the goalposts and turned accountability into an train in distraction.”
“So let’s cease the video games. If you would like this struggle, [Rep. James Comer], let’s have it — in public. You like to speak about transparency. There’s nothing extra clear than a public listening to, cameras on. We will probably be there,” she posted.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks through the Clinton World Initiative, Sept. 24, 2025, in New York.
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In response to Hillary Clinton’s feedback, the GOP Oversight Committee issued a statement on X Thursday, saying the Clintons are going to “attempt to spin the details” and that their legal professionals “stated their shoppers accepted the phrases of the depositions.”
Earlier this week, the Clintons agreed to sit for closed depositions on Epstein after the GOP-led Home Oversight Committee threatened to carry them in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with its subpoenas referring to Epstein.
Comer, the committee’s chairman, introduced on Tuesday that Hillary Clinton is scheduled to testify on Feb. 26. Invoice Clinton will sit for deposition the next day, Feb. 27.
For months, the Clintons had insisted that the subpoenas had been with out authorized advantage. Comer had pushed again, saying the Clintons should not above the legislation and should adjust to a subpoena.
Chairman of the Home Oversight and Accountability Committee Rep. James Comer speaks to reporter as he leaves the U.S. Capitol, February 3, 2026 in Washington.
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A letter from the Clintons’ lawyer Jon Skladany to Comer additionally stated an open listening to “will greatest go well with our considerations about equity,” citing the requirement that the interviews be videotaped — however in the end left the choice about whether or not to carry a listening to or a deposition as much as Comer.
The subpoenas the committee despatched to the Clintons had been particularly for a closed-door deposition. That’s what will happen, and Comer stated a public listening to is welcome after that if the Clintons need to are available.
“The deposition will probably be made public, it may be audio, video and the transcripts will probably be launched,” Comer stated in an interview on Newsmax on Wednesday.
“Depositions are all the time the popular technique of getting data from a witness. In the event you have a look at historical past, congressional hearings, they could be entertaining, however they are not very substantive … So, we’ll do the depositions. That is what the subpoena is for,” Comer stated. “And after the depositions, if the Clintons need extra, they’re greater than welcome to come back to the Home Oversight Committee after they’re deposed. In the event that they need to testify in a public listening to in entrance of the Oversight Committee, they’re greater than welcome to try this.”
Neither Invoice Clinton nor Hillary Clinton has been accused of wrongdoing and each deny having any information of Epstein’s crimes. No Epstein survivor or affiliate has ever made a public allegation of wrongdoing or inappropriate conduct by the previous president or his spouse in connection along with his prior relationship with Epstein.
President Donald Trump, in an interview with NBC Information on Wednesday, repeated that he thinks it is a “disgrace” that the Clintons will sit for depositions.
“It bothers me that someone goes after Invoice Clinton. See, I like Invoice Clinton. I nonetheless like Invoice Clinton,” Trump stated.
