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Former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, volition attest successful a legislature investigation into the precocious enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein, a staffer said connected Monday (February 2, 2026).
The determination could caput disconnected a planned ballot successful the Republican-led House of Representatives to clasp the 2 salient Democrats successful contempt, which could pb to transgression charges.
The House Oversight Committee recommended past week that they be held successful contempt for refusing to attest astir their narration with Epstein. The Clintons had offered to cooperate with the panel but had refused to look successful person, saying the probe was a partisan workout aimed astatine protecting Republican President Donald Trump.
“They told you nether oath what they know, but you don’t care. But the erstwhile President and former Secretary of State volition beryllium there. They look guardant to mounting a precedent that applies to everyone,” the Clintons’ lawman main of staff, Angel Urena, said successful a station connected societal media.
House Speaker Mike Johnson welcomed the quality but did not accidental whether the enclosure would driblet its planned contempt vote.
“That’s a bully development,” helium said. “We expect everyone to comply with Congress’s subpoenas.”
Bill Clinton flew connected Epstein’s level several times successful the aboriginal 2000s aft leaving office. He has expressed regret astir the narration and said helium knew thing astir Epstein’s transgression activity.
