Former President Bill Clinton did not say President Donald Trump should be subpoenaed in Congress‘s sprawling Jeffrey Epstein investigation, claiming he was unaware of any wrongdoing.
The House Oversight Committee deposed Bill and Hillary Clinton last week to determine their connections to and knowledge of Epstein.
The panel released the never-before-seen videos of the hours-long depositions on Monday afternoon.
When pressed by the top Democrat on the panel, Congressman Robert Garcia of California, on whether Trump should be subpoenaed to testify in the investigation, the ex-President turned the tables on the California lawmaker.
‘That’s for you to decide, but he (Trump) did know him well, and I once had a brief discussion with him about it,’ Clinton, 79, told Garcia.
Garcia then thanked Clinton, and the room fell silent, the video of the testimony shows.
After a pause, Clinton spoke up, offering clarifying information and noting how Garcia never asked a follow-up.
‘I hate this,’ Clinton declared after the long pause. ‘But since there was no follow-up question, he’s never, the president, never, this is 20-something years ago, never said anything to me to make me think he was involved in anything improper.’
Bill Clinton told congressional investigators that he once spoke to Donald Trump about Jeffrey Epstein, and that the Republican described at the time how he and Epstein had a falling out over a real estate deal
Infamous sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and associate Ghislaine Maxwell at the White House with Bill Clinton
Trump knew that Clinton had flown on Epstein’s private jet when they spoke in the early 2000s, the Democrat testified
Clinton described a conversation he had with Trump about Epstein in the early 2000s – his only discussion with the Republican on the topic.
‘It was on his golf course,’ the former President began. Clinton said he and Trump were playing in a celebrity golf tournament for Joe Torre, the former general manager of the New York Yankees.
‘And the day I was there, he would typically, Donald Trump, would come out and play a few holes with us, and he somehow knew I had flown on Jeffrey Epstein’s aircraft,’ Clinton testified.
‘And he said, you know, we had some great times together over the years, but we fell out all because of a real estate deal. And he said, I’m sorry, it happened. That’s all.’
Hours later, Clinton again clarified again that Trump didn’t do anything wrong as far as he knew.
‘You know, as I said earlier, the only conversation I had with President Trump about this was in the early 2000s, and I have no information who had that he did anything wrong.’
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