“You’ll have to ask my husband.”
That moment has arrived.
Former President Bill Clinton will sit for a deposition Friday, and face House Oversight investigators eager to revisit the questions Hillary Clinton answered — and the ones she deflected — during her six-hour testimony about Jeffrey Epstein.
Clinton’s deposition is expected to go “even longer” than his wife Hillary Clinton’s testimony, which lasted over six hours on Thursday, according to Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer. Republicans said that Hillary Clinton answered most of their questions, but they were disappointed that the former secretary of state and first lady told them around a dozen times, “You’ll have to ask my husband,” Comer said.
“So, we have a lot of questions for her husband tomorrow,” the House Oversight chairman told reporters on Thursday evening. “And I’m confident that deposition will last even longer than this one.”
Before heading inside to begin Bill Clinton’s deposition on Friday, Comer called it “a historical day for the United States Congress.”
“We already had a big portfolio of questions for him, but that increased yesterday,” Comer added.
Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace said on Friday morning that Hillary Clinton did not want to answer questions about the photos that show her husband hanging out with Epstein, Maxwell, and unknown women. Mace also accused Hillary Clinton of responding to some of her “pointed” questions by “screaming.”
“She was unhinged,” Mace added. “And I hope that President Clinton is less unhinged today than his wife was yesterday.”
Mace also called for the Oversight Committee to subpoena Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, a move that California Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said would have the support of Democrats. Lutnick met with Epstein multiple times, including at least one time on Epstein’s infamous island. The Commerce secretary said that he did not engage in or witness any illegal activity, and Lutnick has not been accused of any wrongdoing related to Epstein’s crimes.
On Thursday evening, Hillary Clinton spoke to reporters outside the performing arts center where her deposition took place in Chappaqua, New York, and blasted Republicans for asking “very repetitive” questions after she stated that she never met Epstein. Hillary Clinton also suggested that her husband will focus on the “chronology” of his relationship with Epstein and argue that he only spent time with the financier before Epstein was charged and pleaded guilty to soliciting a child for prostitution.
“I think it is fair to say that the vast majority of people who had contact with [Epstein] before his criminal pleas in ’08 were like most people, they did not know what he was doing,” Hillary Clinton said. “And I think that is exactly what my husband will testify to tomorrow.”
The former president will likely have much more to address during his deposition than his wife, as Bill Clinton traveled numerous times on Epstein’s private plane. He also appears in multiple instances in the Epstein files recently released by the Justice Department, including in photos that show the former president schmoozing with Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as multiple photos that show Bill Clinton in a swimming pool with Maxwell and enjoying a hot tub with a woman whose face was redacted.
The former president was also seen in a picture getting a back massage from Chauntae Davies, one of Epstein’s accusers. Davies has not accused Clinton of acting inappropriately.
Comer said on Friday before the deposition that House Republicans plan to ask Bill Clinton about the photos as well as his trips on Epstein’s private jet.
House Democrats also made a few comments before heading into the building for former President Clinton’s deposition. Rep. Robert Garcia of California said that Democrats want “serious answers” from Bill Clinton. Garcia then blasted his Republican colleagues, who Hillary Clinton accused of asking irrelevant questions, including inquiries about UFOs, during Thursday’s deposition.
“What we don’t want is a side show and questions about UFOs, or about conspiracy theories from decades ago, which is what unfortunately happened yesterday,” Garcia said. “A series of bizarre questions were asked of Secretary Clinton.”
The Democrats also repeated their demand from Thursday and urged Republicans to subpoena President Donald Trump. Garcia said that Republicans have “set a new precedent” by asking a former president to testify over his relationship with Epstein.
Neither Bill nor Hillary Clinton has been accused of any wrongdoing related to Epstein’s sex crimes, and the former president and first lady have stated that they never visited Epstein’s private island. After photos of Bill Clinton were released among the millions of Epstein-related documents and files by the Justice Department, the former president’s chief of staff, Angel Ureña, accused the Trump administration of scapegoating Bill Clinton.
“The White House hasn’t been hiding these files for months only to dump them late on a Friday to protect Bill Clinton,” Ureña said. “This is about shielding themselves from what comes next, or from what they’ll try and hide forever. So they can release as many grainy, 20-plus-year-old photos as they want, but this isn’t about Bill Clinton. Never has, never will be.”
Documents released by the Justice Department also show that Maxwell had a major role in the founding of the Clinton Global Initiative, a project of the Clinton Foundation to bring world leaders together to discuss future action. While coordinating with Epstein, Maxwell took part in budget discussions when the former president was first attempting to launch the initiative in 2004, just two years before Epstein was indicted, The New York Times reported.
Maxwell, a British former socialite, told the Justice Department during an interview last year that Bill Clinton was her friend, “not Epstein’s friend.”
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