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Because of Epstein, Bill Clinton appeared before a House committee.

Former US President Bill Clinton appeared before a House of Representatives investigative committee on Friday to be questioned about his documented ties to Jeffrey Epstein, as Democrats sought to shed light on President Donald Trump's connections to the convicted sex offender, particularly against minors.

Bill Clinton, who occupied the White House between 1993 and 2001, was mentioned many times in Epstein's documents, as was the current president, who is also 79 years old, without any objections ever being raised against him.

He was close to the New York financial expert, and traveled several times on his private plane and many pictures were taken of him with him, just like Trump.

Among the photos recently released in millions of documents published by the Justice Department, Clinton can be seen participating with Epstein at social events, but also in private sessions with him, sometimes alongside women whose faces were obscured to protect their privacy.

Clinton appears in one of the photos in a hot tub.

Clinton repeatedly asserted that he was unaware of Epstein's practices. Epstein was convicted in 2008 of sex crimes and served an 18-month prison sentence.

When Epstein died by suicide in his jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial, Clinton maintained that he had not been in contact with him for more than a decade.
This was also confirmed by his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

She appeared on Thursday before the same Republican-dominated committee to be questioned about her relationship with Epstein.

She told reporters that “the vast majority of people who were in contact with him before his guilty plea in 2008… were unaware of what he was doing.”
The hearing for Hillary and Bill Clinton is being held at the Arts Center in Chappaqua, upstate New York, where the couple resides.

The former first lady challenged the Republican-dominated committee during her questioning on Thursday, demanding that Trump be summoned to testify about his relationship with Epstein.

The committee was accused of trying to "protect one official," namely the Republican president.
The Democratic members of the committee also demanded to hear from Trump, based on new information revealed by the American press.

Hillary and Bill Clinton's testimony concludes a months-long battle with Republican committee chairman James Comer over their questioning.

The former president and his wife initially refused subpoenas to testify in the investigation. But they eventually agreed to do so after House Republicans threatened to hold them in contempt of Congress.

They requested that their testimonies be made public, but the committee insisted on questioning them behind closed doors, a move that Bill Clinton denounced as "pure politicization" and a "show trial."

A recording of the session is scheduled to be released after it concludes, most likely on Friday evening.

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