WASHINGTON (TNND) — Former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is testifying to House lawmaker in their investigation into Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday.
She is appearing before lawmakers for a recorded interview behind closed doors after months of back-and-forth with the committee that include threatening to hold the Clintons in contempt of Congress. Former President Bill Clinton will also testify to lawmakers on Friday.
The Clintons pushed for their testimony to be heard in a public setting, which was rejected by Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., who said standard practice was to have closed-door interviews with witnesses ahead of hearings.
The Clintons have accused congressional Republicans of using them to distract from Trump’s ties to Epstein.
“Other witnesses were asked to testify. They gave written statements under oath. We offered that,” she told the BBC last week. “Why do they want to pull us into this? To divert attention from President Trump. This is not complicated.”
Photos of Bill Clinton with Epstein and co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell were released in the first batch of the Epstein files made public in December. It’s unclear exactly when the photos were taken, but a spokesperson for the former president has said he traveled on Epstein’s plane four times between 2002 and 2003.
Bill Clinton has not been accused of wrongdoing in connection with Epstein and has said he stopped communicating with him at least a decade before his arrest in 2019.
Hillary Clinton has not been connected to Epstein but did know Maxwell and interacted with her at conferences hosted by the Clinton foundation.
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“We are more than happy to say what we know, which is very limited and totally unrelated to their behavior or their crimes, and we want to do it in public,” she told BBC.
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