Hillary Clinton shredded MAGA Rep. James Comer and accused him of covering for Donald Trump as she sat down with lawmakers to answer questions in the Jeffery Epstein probe.
The former secretary did not hold back as she accused the lawmaker of an unserious investigation and trying to distract from Trump’s own actions with his demand that the Clintons sit down for in-person questioning.
“You have compelled me to testify, fully aware that I have no knowledge that would assist your investigation, in order to distract attention from President Trump’s actions and to cover them up despite legitimate calls for answers,” Clinton said, according to her prepared remarks.
She blasted the House Oversight Committee chairman and argued his committee was not being serious about learning the truth about the pedophile.
She said if it were, “it would not rely on press gaggles to get answers from our current president on his involvement; it would ask him directly under oath about the tens of thousands of times he showed up in the Epstein files.”
She challenged the Kentucky lawmaker directly to be “worthy of the trust the American people have given you.”
After months of negotiations following a subpoena, Clinton was sitting down with members of the committee in Chappaqua, NY.
Former President Bill Clinton, a known Epstein associate whose pictures have appeared with both the disgraced financier and others in the released files, will sit down with the committee for a deposition on Friday.
Comer claimed he wanted to talk to the ex-presidential candidate after Epstein’s accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, was a guest at her daughter Chelsea’s wedding.
Before heading into the session, he said he believed it would be a long afternoon of questioning and defended not calling on Trump to testify.
“I don’t think it’s any type of being unfair in any way to the Clintons. They’ve never answered questions, unlike President Trump, who gets questioned every day by just about every one of you about his knowledge or involvement with Epstein. To my knowledge, the Clintons haven’t answered very many questions,” Comer said.
But the former secretary said she had “no idea” about Epstein and Maxwell’s criminal activities, which she also stated in her sworn declaration last month.
“I do not recall ever encountering Mr. Epstein. I never flew on his palne or visited his island, homes or office,” she also said.
She accused Republicans on the committee of playing politics and tore into them for not holding a single public hearing despite claims of transparency.
“You have made little effort to call the people who show up most prominently in the Epstein files,” she said. “And when you did, not a single Republican Member showed up for Les Wexner’s deposition.”
Instead, the deposition of the billionaire Epstein associate was led by committee staff. Comer was not in attendance because it conflicted with oral surgery.
The former president’s spokesperson took a dig at Republicans ahead of the deposition for it as well.
“We congratulate the Republicans for showing up today and tomorrow for their first deposition in their Epstein investigation. Glad none of them had pre-scheduled oral surgery. We hope they actually ask questions about Epstein. Up until this point, they haven’t asked a single one,” Angel Urena wrote on X.
Clinton blasted it as an institutional failure “designed to protect one political party and one public official, rather than to seek truth and justice for the victims and survivors.”
“My heart breaks for the survivors. And I am furious on their behalf,” Clinton said.
Barely two hours into the deposition, Clinton’s spokesman shared that it had to be taken off the record temporarily after a photo of the session started circulating online.
Clinton adviser Nick Merrill said they were working to determine why House members were violating House rules.
The photo of Clinton was posted on X by MAGA influencer Benny Johnson, who said it was provided to him by GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert.
