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«I do know what I noticed and, extra importantly, what I did not see. I do know what I did and, extra importantly, what I did not do. I did not see something, I did not do something fallacious.” This is what Bill Clinton said at the beginning of his testimony to the House Committee investigating the case of pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.

After the six hours of testimony, transformed by Hillary Clinton on Thursday into an attack against Donald Trump and his allies, Bill Clinton, 79, appeared before the Commission yesterday, thus becoming the first current or former president to testify before Congress since 1983. An alarming precedent also for Donald Trump: “I’m not completely happy, I’m not happy” that Bill Clinton is being questioned by the Commission, said the current president, while the Democrats are pushing to force him to testify under oath about his long friendship with Epstein.

In his speech – behind closed doors from Chappaqua, New York, where he lives – Bill Clinton explained that he had only had “a quick affiliation with Epstein” and denied any involvement in the sexual crimes of the financier, who was convicted for the first time in 2008 and then died in prison in 2019. “Although my temporary affiliation with Epstein ended years earlier than his crimes got here to mild, and though I noticed no indication throughout our restricted interactions of what actually occurred, I’m right here to supply what little I do know in order that one thing like this will’t occur once more,” he mentioned.

The Republican president of the Commission, James Comer, after having used all means, together with the specter of indictment for contempt of Congress, to pressure the 2 Clintons to testify, subjected the previous president to a sequence of questions additionally on the hyperlinks between Epstein and the Clinton Foundation.

The scenario of the previous Democratic president may be very delicate. It is actually confirmed that Bill Clinton – American president from 1993 to 2001 and survivor of investigations and scandals, together with sexual ones – flew dozens of occasions between 2002 and 2003 on Epstein’s aircraft, and the pictures launched in current weeks painting him with women within the swimming pool and in pleasant attitudes with Epstein. His obligations within the affair have been, nonetheless, attenuated by some emails printed by the Department of Justice and by the statements of Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s accomplice and confederate.