The Clintons have pushed again their deposition dates for the Home Oversight Committee’s investigation into infamous pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had been anticipated to testify earlier than the panel final week on Oct. 9 — however didn’t seem — and former President Invoice Clinton was slated to be grilled on his ties to Epstein on Tuesday.
However an Oversight Committee spokesperson advised The Publish Monday that the panel is “having conversations with the Clintons’ lawyer to accommodate their schedules.”
“The deposition gained’t happen tomorrow,” the spokesperson mentioned of Invoice’s upcoming testimony.
The Clintons had been subpoenaed in early August by Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) as a part of the panel’s overview of the federal authorities’s probe into Epstein and his convicted confederate Ghislaine Maxwell.
“Everyone in America desires to know what went on in Epstein Island, and we’ve all heard studies that Invoice Clinton was a frequent customer there, so he’s a first-rate suspect to be deposed by the Home Oversight Committee,” Comer mentioned of the previous president’s subpoena throughout an interview with Newsmax in August.
The Kentucky Republican, who has led the Oversight panel since January 2023, described the Clinton summons as “probably the most difficult subpoena I’ve ever issued.”
“[B]ut what makes this subpoena completely different is that the Democrats voted with Republicans,” Comer added.
Epstein, who died in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019 whereas awaiting trial on little one intercourse trafficking costs, visited the White Home at the least 17 occasions — starting shortly after Invoice Clinton was sworn into workplace in 1993.
The late financier additionally donated $10,000 to the in 1993 to the White Home Historic Affiliation, in response to the former first girl’s recordsdata.
Invoice Clinton was amongst a number of of the pedophile’s buddies, together with President Trump, who appeared to have penned entries for Epstein’s notorious fiftieth “birthday e book” in 2003.
In Clinton’s purported observe to Epstein, launched by the Oversight Committee final month, the previous president writes: “It’s reassuring isn’t it, to have lasted so lengthy, throughout all of the years of studying and realizing, adventures and [illegible], and nonetheless to have your childlike curiosity.”
Maxwell, who reportedly compiled the entries within the e book gifted to Epstein, advised Deputy Legal professional Common Todd Blanche earlier this 12 months that Invoice Clinton was her pal, and never Epstein’s.
“President Clinton was my pal, not Epstein’s pal,” Maxwell mentioned in a jailhouse interview with the Justice Division official. “President Clinton appreciated me, and we obtained alongside terribly nicely.”
“However I by no means noticed that heat with Mr. Epstein.”
Maxwell is presently serving a 20-year jail sentence for conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse minors.
She additionally claimed in her interview with Blanche that the previous president “completely by no means” went to Epstein’s notorious island.
The previous president acknowledged in his 2024 e book “Citizen: My Life After the White Home” that he flew aboard Epstein’s non-public airplane — nicknamed the Lolita Specific — in connection to his work along with his Clinton World Initiative nonprofit, however denied visiting Epstein’s island.
“I want I had by no means met him,” Clinton wrote of Epstein, including that touring on his airplane was “not definitely worth the years of questioning afterward.”
The previous president, who has not been accused of any wrongdoing within the Epstein case, claimed that he had no concept Epstein and Maxwell had been sex-trafficking minors.
