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Bill and Hillary Clinton connected Tuesday (January 13, 2026) refused to testify successful a U.S. Republican-led legislature investigation of the precocious convicted enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein, saying it was a partisan exercise.
“Every idiosyncratic has to determine erstwhile they person seen oregon had capable and are acceptable to combat for this country, its principles and its people, nary substance the consequences,” the Clintons wrote successful a missive to Republican Representative James Comer, who chairs the House of Representatives Oversight Committee. “For us, present is that time.”
Mr. Comer said the committee volition meet adjacent week to hold erstwhile U.S. Democratic President Bill Clinton successful contempt. That could perchance pb to transgression charges.
A committee spokesperson said the sheet volition besides statesman contempt proceedings against Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic statesmanlike nominee, if she does not look earlier the panel connected Wednesday.
The Clintons said they had tried to supply what “little information” they had to assistance with the probe and accused Comer of shifting absorption distant from the Trump administration’s actions. Epstein died successful jailhouse successful 2019, during President Donald Trump’s archetypal term successful office, portion awaiting proceedings connected national sex-trafficking charges. His decease was ruled a suicide.
“If the Government didn’t bash each it could to analyse and prosecute these crimes, for immoderate reason, that should beryllium the absorption of your work... There is nary grounds that you are doing so,” the Clintons wrote.
“There is nary plausible mentation for what you are doing different than partisan politics,” they said.
Epstein White House visits and flights
Mr. Comer said “most Americans” privation Bill Clinton to reply questions astir his ties to Epstein. The Kentucky Republican said Epstein visited the White House 17 times portion Mr. Clinton was successful bureau and that the erstwhile president had flown connected Epstein’s level immoderate 27 times.
Mr. Clinton has expressed regret astir the narration and has said helium knew thing astir Epstein’s transgression activity. No grounds has surfaced that Mr. Clinton was involved successful enactment trafficking.
“No one’s accusing Bill Clinton of immoderate wrongdoing,” Mr. Comer said. “We conscionable person questions.”
The U.S. Justice Department has been releasing files tied to transgression probes of Epstein, who was erstwhile friends with Mr. Trump and the Clintons, successful compliance with a transparency instrumentality passed by Congress.
A abstracted missive sent to the committee connected Monday by the Clintons’ attorneys said the subpoenas for their grounds were invalid, unenforceable and “nothing much than a ploy to effort to embarrass governmental rivals, arsenic President Trump has directed.”
