Bill, Hillary Clinton to be deposed in House Oversight Committee’s Epstein probe

Former President Invoice Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton can be impeached by the Home Oversight Committee on the finish of this month.

Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., introduced that Hillary Clinton will take part in a closed-door transcribed interview on Feb. 26, and Invoice Clinton will seem on the identical phrases on Feb. 27.

Each interviews can be filmed, in keeping with Comer’s press launch.

It comes after weeks of forwards and backwards between the previous first couple and the Republican Get together-led Home of Representatives committee over whether or not they would testify within the chamber’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, and beneath what circumstances.

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Invoice and Hillary Clinton, seen at President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January 2025, are being focused by Republicans within the Home of Representatives. (Melina Mara/Getty Pictures)

The Clintons each confronted contempt of Congress votes within the Home of Representatives this week if they didn’t agree to come back to Capitol Hill for in-person interviews with the Oversight Committee.

These votes had been most likely additionally profitable. Late final month, 9 Democrats on the Home Oversight Committee voted together with all Republicans to advance Invoice Clinton’s contempt of Congress decision to a vote in all the Home. Three Democrats voted in favor of the decision towards Hillary Clinton.

A contempt vote in Congress would refer each Clintons to the Division of Justice (DOJ) for felony fees.

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A contempt of Congress conviction is a misdemeanor punishable by a most positive of $100,000 and as much as one yr in jail.

“Republicans and Democrats on the Oversight Committee have been clear: Nobody is above the legislation – and that features the Clintons. After delaying and defying duly issued subpoenas for six months, the Home Oversight Committee moved shortly to carry Congress in contempt of course of in response to their non-compliance,” Comer stated in a press release.

Home Oversight Committee Chairman Consultant James Comer speaks to the media on the Rayburn Home Workplace Constructing on July 24, 2025 in Washington, DC (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Pictures)

“As soon as it turned clear that the Home of Representatives would maintain them in contempt, the Clintons absolutely relented and can seem for transcribed, filmed depositions this month. We sit up for questioning the Clintons as a part of our investigation into Epstein and Maxwell’s heinous crimes, to offer transparency and accountability for the American folks and for survivors.”

Fox Information Digital reached out to Invoice Clinton’s spokesperson for remark.

The Clintons had been two of 10 folks subpoenaed for testimony earlier than the fee because it investigates the federal authorities’s dealing with of Epstein’s case. Up to now, solely two folks subpoenaed by the committee, former Legal professional Normal Invoice Barr and former Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta, have appeared in individual.

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Their attorneys wrote to Comer final month calling his subpoenas legally invalid and a violation of the separation of powers, arguments the Kentucky Republican rejected.

“President and Secretary Clinton have already supplied the restricted data they’ve about Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell to the Committee. They did so proactively and voluntarily, and even supposing the subpoenas are invalid and legally unenforceable, not certain by a legitimate legislative function, baseless as a result of they don’t search related data, and an unprecedented breach of the separation of powers,” the letter stated.

The Justice Division launched a trove of Epstein paperwork on December 19, following President Trump’s signing of the Epstein Recordsdata Transparency Act in November. (Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan through Getty Pictures)

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The 2 sides then went forwards and backwards discussing numerous phrases, whereas Comer continued with contempt proceedings.

Comer has twice turned down presents for himself and Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., the highest Democrat on the committee, to journey to New York with restricted workers to interview Invoice Clinton.

In the meantime, Democrats had accused Comer of pursuing the contempt fees attributable to political motivations reasonably than offering closure to Epstein’s victims.

Invoice Clinton was recognized to have a friendship with Epstein earlier than his federal felony prosecution and is one in all a number of high-profile names showing within the trove of recordsdata launched by the DOJ on the late pedophile. However there are not any implications of wrongdoing by any of the Clintons in terms of Epstein.

In a temper that might have led to an unprecedented felony prosecution, the Clintons’ attorneys wrote to the committee on Monday:[M]Your purchasers settle for the phrases of your letter and can seem for depositions on mutually agreeable dates. As has been the committee’s observe, you possibly can affirm that the Home is not going to transfer ahead with contempt proceedings, because the Speaker acknowledged in his letter this morning.”