Hoarse Bill Clinton breaks silence after Epstein deposition as he claims he had ‘restricted interactions’ with pedophile, makes ‘private’ protection of spouse Hillary and divulges what he stated in his testimony

Bill Clinton spoke publicly for the first time following his six-hour testimony to the House Oversight Committee regarding his ties to deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. 

The 79-year-old former president’s voice sounded worse for wear following the marathon session, in which he denied knowing anything about Epstein’s criminal enterprise. 

Much of what he said was a retelling of his opening statement near his home in Chappaqua, New York on Friday morning.

He restated in the social media clip that he testified because ‘I love my country, especially our Constitution’ and that he appeared because ‘no person is above the law, even presidents – especially presidents.’

Clinton again claimed to have had ‘limited interactions’ with Epstein, despite his name being mentioned thousands of times in a recent Department of Justice release related to the sex criminal. 

‘Though my brief acquaintance with Epstein ended years before his crimes came to light, and though I never witnessed during our limited interactions any indication of what was truly going on, I offered the little I do know in hopes that it might prevent anything like this from ever happening again.’

He then made a ‘personal’ statement regarding Republicans’ demand that his wife Hillary testify on Thursday. 

‘She had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein, nothing. She has no memory of even meeting him,’ he said, adding that forcing her to testify was ‘simply not right.’  

He then said that he ‘saw nothing and I did nothing wrong.’   

‘I had no idea of the crimes Epstein was committing. No matter how many photos you show me, I have two things that at the end of the day matter more than any interpretation of 20-year-old photos.’

Clinton also brought up again the story of his childhood, and growing up in a family that had ‘domestic abuse,’ promising he’d have never interacted with him had he known what Epstein was doing.

In the only new passage of the entire three-minute video, he hoped others with ties to Epstein would be willing to go on the record with Congress as he did and called for the Department of Justice to release the entirety of the Epstein files.

‘When the video of my testimony today is released, I hope it will motivate everyone to go in front of Congress and say what they know,’ he said.

‘I hope it will motivate the Justice Department to finally release all the files and to ensure this never happens again. The survivors deserve that.’

The Democrat president spent more than six hours answering questions Friday about his ties to Epstein, reiterating that he neither saw nor did anything wrong. He also appeared to absolve Donald Trump.

Clinton allegedly said that Trump told him he was no longer friends with Epstein over two decades ago at a golf tournament, three sources familiar with Clinton’s testimony told CNN. 

There were no further details given about the alleged land deal that caused their rift. 

Trump said in 2019 when Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges that he hadn’t spoken to Epstein in over 15 years adding that he was ‘not a fan of his, that I can tell you. I was not a fan of his.’

In 2025, Trump told reporters at one of his golf courses in Scotland that Epstein ‘stole’ young female employees from Mar-a-Lago.

‘He stole people that worked for me. I said, ”Don’t ever do that again.” He did it again, and I threw him out of the place, persona non grata.’ 

White House Communications Director Steven Cheung added that Trump kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago for ‘being a creep.’ 

Neither man specified a year in which this took place.

The White House referred us to a similar statement Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt had given to the media several weeks ago.

‘The [resident has always remained consistent in that he kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club at Mar a Lago because frankly, Jeffrey Epstein was a creep.’ 

The Democratic former president’s closed-door deposition ended after more than six hours of questioning from lawmakers who said he answered every question posed to him.

He did not take questions from the press following the deposition, as former First Lady Clinton did yesterday.  

Photographs of Clinton are among the millions of Epstein files released by the US Department of Justice over the past year.

In one, apparently on board a private jet, he is seen grinning with a young woman on his lap.

In another he is reclining in a hot tub beside a woman whose face is redacted. Others show him looking relaxed with Epstein.

Records also show that Epstein, who trafficked and sexually exploited dozens of women and underage girls, visited the White House 17 times between 1993 to 1995, when Clinton was the president and flew at least 27 times on the pedophile’s private jet.

Clinton has always strongly denied any misconduct, and his appearance in the Epstein files does not imply any wrongdoing.

It is not the first time for Clinton, president from 1993 to 2001, to face embarrassing scrutiny of his private life.

He was impeached during his second term over an affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, famously declaring: ‘I did not have sexual relations with that woman.’

Robert Garcia, top Democrat on the oversight committee, called on Trump and First Lady Melania Trump to testify under oath.

‘The House Republicans have set a new precedent, and that now includes bringing in for depositions presidents, former presidents and first ladies,’ he said.

He added that Trump must explain ‘why files are missing, why there has been a White House cover-up, and why he continues to call this investigation a ‘hoax’.

Trump has denied he was friends with Epstein, insisting the files ‘completely exonerate’ him.

Speaking during a break in proceedings last night, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer said Clinton was asked if President Trump should be called to answer questions. He cited Clinton as saying: ‘That’s for you to decide.’

Trump and Clinton have come under intense pressure to answer questions about their relationships with the pedophile financier after they were each named tens of thousands of times in the new Epstein files released by the DOJ. 

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is also being urged to testify after the files revealed he had visited Epstein’s island after claiming he cut off all ties to the pedophile. Trump told reporters Friday that Lutnick ‘is a very innocent guy.’

Trump, who was a Clinton donor, backed his predecessor earlier this month after Bill and Hillary finally agreed to testify under the threat of contempt charges.

‘It bothers me that somebody is going after Bill Clinton,’ Trump said. ‘See, I like Bill Clinton. I still like Bill Clinton. I liked his behavior toward me. I thought he got me. He understood me.’

The deposition is being held in private, but it is recorded by cameras and the testimony is expected to be released after it is viewed by the Clintons’ legal team. 

Republicans have sought to question Clinton about Epstein for years, especially as conspiracy theories arose following Epstein’s 2019 suicide in a New York jail cell while he faced sex trafficking charges.

Those calls reached fever pitch late last year when the new DOJ photos revealed his relationship with Epstein ran deeper than previously known.

In a declaration to lawmakers last month, Clinton admitted flying on Epstein’s plane in 2002 and 2003 while he was traveling internationally for the Clinton Foundation.

Clinton said Epstein ‘offered a plane that was big enough to accommodate me, my staff and my US Secret Service detail, in support of visiting the Foundation’s philanthropic work.’

The former president said he never visited Epstein’s private Caribbean island, Little St James, where many of the pedophile’s accusers say they were trafficked for abuse.

Maxwell said in an interview with the Justice Department last year that Clinton was never there.

‘I do not recall speaking to Mr Epstein for more than a decade prior to his 2019 arrest,’ Clinton’s declaration said.

Hillary said after her deposition: ‘I think the chronology of the connection that he had with Epstein ended several years before anything about Epstein’s criminal activities came to light.’

Comer has pledged extensive questioning of the former president. He claimed that Hillary had repeatedly deferred questions about Epstein to her husband.

Epstein was found hanged in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence as his only co-conspirator ever convicted.

Democrats argue the Clinton deposition sets a precedent that should apply equally to Trump, who had his own documented relationship with Epstein. 

Only four ex-presidents – Trump, Harry Truman, John Tyler and John Quincy Adams – and one sitting president, Richard Nixon, had been formally subpoenaed by Congress to testify. Trump, Truman, Nixon, and Quincy Adams all refused to comply, while Tyler agreed to appear.

The Supreme Court has never definitively ruled on whether a president can be compelled to testify before Congress, though the DOJ has historically argued presidents enjoy ‘testimonial immunity’ to protect the separation of powers. 

Representative Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the committee, said: ‘We’re demanding immediately that we ask President Trump to testify in front of our committee and be deposed in front of Oversight Republicans and Democrats.’ 

Comer has pushed back on that idea, saying that Trump has answered questions on Epstein from the press.