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Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said connected Friday (February 27, 2026) helium had no thought of the crimes Jeffrey Epstein was committing and would not person flown connected the late convicted sex offender’s level if helium had immoderate inkling of them. “I know what I did, and more importantly, what I didn’t do. I saw nothing, and I did thing wrong,” Mr. Bill Clinton said in his prepared opening statement to the House of Representatives Oversight Committee.
Mr. Bill Clinton was testifying down closed doors to the Congressional sheet astir his ties to the precocious enactment offender, successful what could be a tense confrontation betwixt the erstwhile Democratic person and President Donald Trump’s chap Republicans.
Mr. Bill Clinton’s grounds follows that of his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who told the House of Representatives Oversight Committee connected Thursday (February 26, 2026) that she did not retrieve ever gathering Epstein and had thing to stock about his enactment crimes.
She said she was besides asked astir UFOs and a 2016-era conspiracy mentation during the seven-hour session.
Mr. Bill Clinton flew on Epstein’s level respective times successful the aboriginal 2000s aft helium left office, and a tranche of millions of documents released by the Justice Department includes photos of him with women whose faces are redacted. He has denied wrongdoing and expressed regret for his association.
Before the sessions, the panel’s Republican chairman, Representative James Comer of Kentucky, said helium would inquire the erstwhile President astir those photos. The committee is besides expected to quiz Mr. Bill Clinton astir Epstein’s engagement with the couple’s charitable foundation.
Mr. Comer said video of Ms. Hillary Clinton’s grounds could beryllium released arsenic soon arsenic Friday (February 27, 2026).
Mr. Comer repeatedly has said the Clintons are not accused of wrongdoing.
They agreed to attest near their main residence of Chappaqua, New York, aft the House threatened to clasp them successful contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate. Some Democrats supported the move.
Both Clintons impeach Republicans of conducting a partisan workout designed to support Mr. Trump from scrutiny, noting that others successful the enquiry were allowed to taxable written statements alternatively than attest successful person.
Democrats accidental the sheet should besides subpoena Mr. Trump, whose sanction appears often successful the Epstein-related files. Mr. Trump socialised extensively with Epstein successful the 1990s and 2000s, earlier Epstein’s 2008 condemnation of soliciting prostitution from a minor.
Democrats are besides accusing Mr. Trump’s Justice Department of withholding records of a pistillate who accused Mr. Trump of sexually abusing her when she was a minor. The Justice Department has said it is looking astatine the material successful question and volition people it if appropriate.
The section has antecedently cautioned that the worldly it has released includes unfounded accusations and sensationalist claims astir Mr. Trump, and authorities person not accused him of immoderate transgression wrongdoing successful transportation with Epstein.
“President Clinton’s beingness present contiguous nether oath highlights the Donald Trump-sized gaping spread successful Chairman Comer’s investigation,” said Democratic Representative James Walkinshaw of Virginia, successful remarks to reporters earlier the commencement of Friday (February 27, 2026)’s proceedings.
Epstein died successful jailhouse successful 2019 portion facing national sex-trafficking crimes. His decease was ruled a suicide.
