The hearing of Clinton, who, according to House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer, traveled on Epstein's plane 27 times and invited him to the White House 17 times, lasted slightly shorter than Thursday's hearing of his wife Hillary. Unlike his wife, the former president did not come out to journalists after the hearing in Chappaqua, New York, where the former first couple lives.
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The interrogation video is intended to dispel doubts
Comer said Clinton answered all the questions, but suggested his answers didn't explain everything. “I'm sure that after the release of the video, not only you, but many Americans will have more questions about some of the answers that have been given,” the Republican said. He noted that the recording of the interrogation was to be published within 24 hours.
The politician told reporters during a break in the hearing that Clinton testified that “President Trump never told him anything that would make him think he was involved” in Epstein's crimes. Democrats in the room disputed these claims. According to them, Clinton testified that Trump told him that he ended his friendship with Epstein over a land dispute (the two lived in Palm Beach, Florida), which contradicts Trump's public claims on the matter.
According to the New York Times, the former president was also responsible for, among others: to questions about photos contained in the published files of Epstein's case showing him in the company of the billionaire and undressed women. In response to one of these questions, about the hot tub photo, Clinton allegedly testified that he had not had sex with the woman who was sitting in the tub with him.
Clinton's Friday testimony is the former president's first appearance before a congressional committee since the hearings of President Gerald Ford, who appeared before the committee twice, including once again as a sitting president in 1974. He then explained the decision to pardon his predecessor, Richard Nixon, who was facing charges in connection with the Watergate scandal.
House Oversight Committee deputy chairman Robert Garcia of the Democratic Party also called on President Donald Trump to participate in a hearing as part of the Epstein investigation.
— Republicans have set a new precedent by calling presidents and former presidents to testify. We now ask and demand that President Trump formally appear and testify before the Oversight Committee. “He appears in the Epstein files, alongside Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, more times than anyone else,” the Democrat said.
Trump himself admitted on Friday that he didn't like the former president's questioning and said he “liked” Clinton.
