Hillary Clinton’s deposition on the scandal linked to the pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein turned from the outset into an assault by the previous secretary of state in opposition to Donald Trump and the Republican administration which “is trying to cover up the affair”.
The Commission will then additionally hear from Bill Clinton, whose friendship with Epstein has already emerged clearly though with out prison implications. The chairman of the Oversight Commission, James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky, acknowledged that “no one is accusing the Clintons of any wrongdoing at this moment” despite the fact that “there are many questions”.
For Hillary Clinton and the Democrats, the technique of Trump and his loyalists is obvious: increase a fuss to cowl up the tasks of the present president. «I do not bear in mind ever assembly Epstein. I’ve by no means flown on his airplane, nor visited his island. And I used to be unaware of his crimes,” Hillary Clinton clarified. And once more: «If this Commission is critical about uncovering the reality about Epstein’s human trafficking crimes, it won’t depend on the newspapers to get solutions from our present president about his involvement, however will ask him straight, beneath oath, for info on the tens of 1000’s of occasions he seems in Epstein’s recordsdata».
The former first woman, former Democratic candidate for the White House in 2016, didn’t invoke the Fifth Amendment and subsequently answered inquiries to the House Committee, but in addition insistently requested Trump’s summons. “A commission that seeks transparency should get to the bottom of the story of the files disappeared from the Department of Justice website in which a victim accuses Donald Trump of disgusting crimes,” he added, referring to a minimum of 50 pages of the Epstein recordsdata which, in keeping with the New York Times, had been censored and never disclosed to cowl up a girl’s accusations in opposition to Trump.
Hillary Clinton’s deposition was then briefly suspended as a result of a photograph of the testimony given behind closed doorways from the household dwelling in Chappaqua, New York, was shared on X. The one who posted the picture was Benny Johnson, a right-wing Maga influencer, who claimed to have acquired it from Republican congresswoman Lauren Boebert.
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