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Clinton
Faces
Epstein
Grill:
Denies
All in
Grueling
House
Probe
Jordan
Jenkins,
Senior
Investigative
Reporter
Tell Us
USA News
Network
CHAPPAQUA,
N.Y. -
Former
President
Bill
Clinton
emerged
from a
marathon
six-plus-hour
deposition
Friday
insisting
he "saw
nothing"
and "did
nothing
wrong"
in his
ties to
Jeffrey
Epstein,
delivering
under
oath
what his
allies
call a
clean
break
from one
of the
darkest
chapters
shadowing
his
post-presidency.
The
closed-door
session
before
the
House
Oversight
Committee
marked
the
first
time a
former
commander-in-chief
has been
hauled
in by
subpoena
to
testify
before
Congress—a
historic
low
point
that
underscores
how
Epstein's
lingering
specter
continues
to
ensnare
political
giants
from
both
parties.
This
wasn't
some
routine
inquiry.
Oversight
Chairman
James
Comer
(R-Ky.)
and his
GOP
squad
had been
building
to this
for
months,
subpoenaing
the
Clintons
after
they
initially
balked,
flirting
with
contempt
charges
in a
high-stakes
game of
chicken.
Clinton,
79,
showed
up at
his own
Westchester
estate,
flanked
by
lawyers,
and
fielded
every
question
lobbed
his
way—from
Epstein's
infamous
"hot tub
photo"
to
flights
on the
Lolita
Express
and
whispers
of
island
dalliances.
No
bombshells
dropped
publicly:
No
smoking-gun
docs, no
referrals
to
prosecutors.
Just
Clinton's
steadfast
line—he
knew the
financier
socially,
cut ties
after
Epstein's
2008
plea
deal,
and
never
glimpsed
the
sex-trafficking
horrors
unfolding.
Digging
Past the
Denial
Sources
in the
room,
speaking
off-record,
paint a
tense
tableau:
Republicans
pressing
on
flight
logs
listing
Clinton
26
times,
Democrats
interjecting
to pivot
toward
Donald
Trump,
whose
own
Epstein
overlap
they've
long
weaponized.
Clinton's
opening
statement,
leaked
post-session,
doubled
as a
shield
for
Hillary,
who
faces
her own
deposition
date
after
hers was
briefly
derailed
by a
bizarre
Boebert
photo
spat.
"She had
nothing
to do
with
Epstein,"
he
averred,
slamming
the
probe as
overreach.
Strip
away the
theater,
though,
and the
real
yield
lies in
the
yet-unreleased
transcript
and
video—Comer's
promised
public
drop
that
could
reignite
the
files'
firestorm.
Epstein's
2019
suicide
left
victims'
advocates
crying
cover-up;
these
sessions
test
whether
Congress
can
unearth
what the
FBI
files
haven't.
Clinton's
testimony
adds
sworn
heft to
his
denials,
but
skeptics
note the
gaps:
Why the
repeated
flights?
Those
20-year-old
photos
with
Ghislaine
Maxwell—brushed
off as
innocuous—still
haunt.
Broader
Reckoning
Looms
Partisan
fault
lines
sharpened
post-deposition.
Dems
hailed
Clinton's
cooperation
while
jabbing
Trump
for
dodging
similar
summonses;
Comer
vows no
one's
above
scrutiny.
With
Trump
back in
the
White
House,
whispers
grow of
counter-subpoenas
or
executive
stonewalling
ahead.
For now,
Clinton
walks
free of
fresh
legal
peril.
But in
the
Epstein
saga—where
truth
trickles
slower
than
justice—this
feels
less
like
closure
than the
next
chapter
in a
probe
devouring
elites.
Victims
watch,
waiting
for more
than
words.
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