The House Oversight Committee has released video footage of the closed-door depositions of Bill and Hillary Clinton that occurred final week in Chappaqua, New York, as half of the panel’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
The former president and secretary of State every confronted roughly 4 1/2 hours of questioning from Democratic and Republican lawmakers. Until now, the whole lot that’s recognized concerning the depositions was shared by individuals who had been within the room.
Bill Clinton denied having any data of Epstein’s crimes throughout what he mentioned was the pair’s “brief acquaintance.”
Repeatedly, lawmakers showed the former president photos of himself with ladies from Epstein supplies just lately launched by the Justice Department, asking if he had intercourse with them. Each time, he instructed them he didn’t, two sources aware of the testimony mentioned.
At one level, the panel homed in on a very well-known photograph of Bill Clinton in a jacuzzi with a girl, her face redacted. Clinton mentioned he didn’t know her, and he denied having intercourse along with her, two sources mentioned.
Lawmakers of each events mentioned Clinton answered each query posed to him, and the previous president broadly denied wrongdoing.
The panel inquired about Clinton’s identify showing within the flight logs of Epstein’s aircraft, and about Epstein’s identify showing in Clinton’s White House guests logs, two sources aware of the testimony instructed NCS.
Clinton voluntarily recounted to the House investigators that now-President Donald Trump instructed him at a golf event within the early 2000s that he had a falling out with Epstein over a land deal, three sources aware of the testimony instructed NCS.
Trump mentioned then he was now not pals with Epstein, Clinton recalled, in keeping with these sources.
In his opening assertion, Clinton mentioned that “no matter how many photos you show (him),” it might not change his assertion that he noticed nothing fallacious and did nothing fallacious.
A day earlier, Hillary Clinton careworn she had by no means met Epstein nor had communications with him and insisted that she had no details about the late convicted intercourse offender’s legal actions.
“I don’t know how many times I had to say, ’I did not know Jeffrey Epstein,’” she instructed reporters final week.
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