Bill And Hillary Clinton Agree To Sit For Depositions On Epstein | EUROtoday

WASHINGTON ― Former President Bill Clinton and former first woman Hillary Clinton have agreed to sit down for depositions with the House Oversight Committee about their relationship with the late intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed the Clintons on a bipartisan foundation final summer time on the identical time lawmakers voted to subpoena the Justice Department for its information on Epstein.

The Clintons resisted coming in for depositions, however agreed to set dates ― the twenty sixth and twenty seventh ― after Republicans set a midday deadline on Tuesday earlier than the House proceeded to a vote holding the Clintons in contempt of Congress.

“Once it became clear that we would hold them in contempt, the Clintons completely caved and will appear for transcribed, filmed depositions this month,” committee chair Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) mentioned Tuesday on X.

Though the Clintons portrayed themselves as victims of a partisan witch hunt, each the subpoena and the contempt push had important help from Democrats.

The contempt resolutions would refer the Clintons to the Justice Department for prosecution. Defying a subpoena carries a penalty of as much as a 12 months in jail. Two former members of the primary Trump administration served time for defying Democratic subpoenas throughout the Joe Biden administration.

The subpoena sparked a prolonged back-and-forth between the committee and legal professionals for the Clintons, who complained they had been being handled unfairly. They provided temporary sworn statements about their relationships with Epstein and agreed to sit down for untranscribed interviews in New York.

“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 Clintons wrote in an announcement final month.

Comer insisted the Clintons sit for regular depositions on Capitol Hill, and a number of other Democrats agreed. Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.), a member of the Oversight Committee, famous Bill Clinton’s a number of journeys aboard Epstein’s non-public airplane and the numerous pictures of the 2 collectively. (In his sworn assertion, Clinton mentioned he accepted flights for philanthropic work as a result of the airplane might accommodate his employees and his Secret Service element.)

“With the number of flights he’s had, with a lot of the documents that have come up, he might have evidence that would be useful for the committee,” Lynch informed HuffPost final month.