Hillary Clinton’s testimony before members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will focus on the federal government’s handling of the investigations into Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as potential ethics violations by elected officials, according to a person granted anonymity to share details of the plans for the closed-door deposition in Chappaqua, New York.
The former secretary of State will testify today, and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, will be deposed Friday.
Among the terms for Hillary Clinton’s agreement to comply with a congressional subpoena and participate in the panel’s Epstein investigation, she will agree to engage in questions about Epstein and Maxwell’s efforts to exploit their connections to powerful figures — such as the Clintons — to protect themselves from accountability for their alleged sex trafficking crimes, the person said.
The Oversight panel has also agreed to discuss the government’s mishandling of the Epstein case, which began in Florida long after Bill Clinton left office.
Notably, the list of agreed-upon issues does not include unrelated topics that have long been a fixation among Republicans, such as Hillary Clinton’s handling of the 2012 Benghazi attack while she was secretary of State or her use of a private email server for official communications. She was dogged by both issues as she ran for president in 2016 against Donald Trump.
Neither Bill nor Hillary Clinton has been accused of wrongdoing in connection with Epstein. Hillary Clinton has maintained she has no memory of meeting Epstein, while Bill Clinton has admitted to using Epstein’s plane on several occasions but has maintained he never visited his island.
Both have said they had no knowledge of his crimes.
