Former President Bill Clinton — who famously palled around with deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein — refused to testify before the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday.
Clinton was subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee for closed-door testimony in regards to the House’s probe into Epstein but never showed. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said “not a single Democrat” showed up to the deposition either.
Following Clinton’s no-show, Comer said, “We will move next week in the House Oversight Committee … to hold Bill Clinton in contempt of Congress.”
“No one’s accusing Bill Clinton of any wrongdoing,” Comer told reporters. “We just have questions. And that’s why the Democrats voted, along with Republicans, to subpoena Bill Clinton.”
Hillary Clinton is slated to appear before the committee on Wednesday, though it is unclear if she will show.
The Clintons released a letter Wednesday that was sent to Comer in which they deflected from the Epstein case, alleging Comer of having misplaced priorities and that the subpoenas are “legally invalid.”
The letter further alleged that Comer has not forced “the Department of Justice to follow the law and release all its Epstein files, including any material regarding us as we have publicly called for.”
“Despite everything that needs to be done to help our country, you are on the cusp of bringing Congress to a halt to pursue a rarely used process literally designed to result in our imprisonment,” the letter continued. “We have tried to give you the little information we have. We’ve done so because Mr. Epstein’s crimes were horrific. If the Government didn’t do all it could to investigate and prosecute these crimes, for whatever reason, that should be the focus of your work…”
Back in 2024, a judge unsealed documents and transcripts that included an admission from an Epstein victim who claimed that Epstein told her that Clinton “likes them young, referring to girls.”
As The Federalist’s Jordan Boyd reported, “Clinton has repeatedly denied knowing anything about Epstein’s sex ring. Yet, part of a settled 2015 defamation lawsuit brought by Virginia Roberts against Maxwell suggests the former president may have more knowledge about Epstein’s scheme to entice minor girls to travel and engage in sexual relations with the financier and his guests than Clinton initially let on.”
As reported by ABC News, flight logs show Clinton “and his entourage had taken four international sojourns” on Epstein’s private plane.
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, a victim of Epstein’s, told the U.K’s Mail on Sunday newspaper in 2011 that she met the former president twice, including once on Epstein’s island, as reported by ABC News. Guiffre said there were “two young brunettes” present at one of the dinners, the outlet reported. Giuffre reportedly said she did not witness any interactions between Clinton and other women that were there.
Epstein also owned a painting of Clinton in a blue dress.
Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Follow Brianna on X: @briannalyman2
