{"id":6594,"date":"2026-02-27T15:27:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=6594"},"modified":"2026-02-27T15:27:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:27:21","slug":"bill-clinton-to-testify-before-lawmakers-as-epstein-probe-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=6594","title":{"rendered":"Bill Clinton to Testify Before Lawmakers as Epstein Probe Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Former President Bill Clinton will be questioned Friday by members of the House Oversight Committee about his ties to convicted sex offender\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">Jeffrey Epstein\u00a0and accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">His behind-closed-doors testimony makes him the first sitting or former president to testify before members of Congress in over 40 years.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"\/>\n<p>The 79-year-old\u00a0follows his wife, former Secretary of State\u00a0Hillary Clinton, who was questioned under oath for around six hours on the same topic on Thursday, as Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2026\/02\/26\/hhillary-clinton-claims-she-had-no-idea-of-jeffrey-epsteins-crimes\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hillary Clinton told the House Oversight Committee she has no memories of Epstein or, for that matter, anything to do with him at all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">In her opening statement, which she later posted on X, Clinton said she Epstein\u2019s criminal activities were just a mystery to her.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<p>\u201cI had no idea about their criminal activities. I do not recall ever encountering Mr. Epstein. I never flew on his plane or visited his island home or offices,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Her recollections of\u00a0Ghislaine Maxwell were similarly lost in the fog of long past and diminishing memories.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2027170320520474719\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/2027170320520474719\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>NBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/bill-clinton-house-epstein-probe-rare-testimony-former-president-rcna260436\">reports<\/a> committee chair James Comer (R-KY) said he expected the former president\u2019s deposition to take \u201ceven longer\u201d than the previous day\u2019s six hours.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting is taking place in Chappaqua, New York, where the Clintons have a house.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Clinton has been accused of wrongdoing and both have called for the full release of the Epstein files.<\/p>\n<p>There is only one precedent for a former\u00a0or sitting president to appear before members of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The last to do so was former President Gerald R. Ford in 1983, when he testified before a Senate subcommittee about planning for the bicentennial of the Constitution.<\/p>\n<h5><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Follow Simon Kent on Twitter:<\/span> <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunSimonKent\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @SunSimonKent<\/a> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">or e-mail to: skent@breitbart.com<\/span><br \/><\/em><\/h5>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2026\/02\/27\/bill-clinton-to-testify-before-lawmakers-as-epstein-probe-continues\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Bill Clinton will be questioned Friday by members of the House Oversight Committee about his ties to convicted sex offender\u00a0Jeffrey Epstein\u00a0and accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}