James Comer claims Hillary Clinton dodged questions on Epstein links: ‘Ask my husband’
CHAPPAQUA, NEW YORK: Representative James Comer, chair of the House Oversight Committee, claimed that Hillary Clinton avoided many questions about her alleged association with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell during her deposition by directing them to her husband, Bill Clinton.
“One of the things I learned today is, if you really have specific questions about the Clinton Global Initiative, or the relationship between the Clintons and Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, you got to ask Bill Clinton,” Representative Scott Perry of Pennsylvania reportedly said.
James Comer says Hillary Clinton 'answered most of our questions'
While Comer noted, “The number of times that she said, ‘I don't know, you'll have to ask my husband,’ was, was more than a dozen.”
At the end of the deposition, Comer added, “Our deposition has concluded. It's a shame that it took seven months to get Ms (Hillary) Clinton in. She answered most of our questions.”
“I'm gonna let some of my colleagues lament on that, but we're gonna not release too many details of what happened today. We're gonna try to get the video out as quickly as possible. Hopefully within the next 24 hours. That's a very long deposition. The transcript will be released as soon as her attorneys approve it. That's the standard rules of a deposition. And I think that, I think this was a productive deposition today. I think we learned a lot,” the 53-year-old politician stated.
Hillary Clinton denies meeting Epstein in deposition
Hillary testified before the House Oversight Committee on Thursday, February 26. Her deposition reportedly started at 11 a.m. and continued until 5 pm in her hometown of Chappaqua, New York. As per reports, at the start of her testimony, the former first lady asserted that she “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, homes or offices. I have nothing to add to that.”
Later, she spoke with the media, where she once again claimed, “I never met Jeffrey Epstein. Never had any connection or communication with him. I knew Ghislaine Maxwell casually as an acquaintance.”
The 78-year-old lawyer also added that she answered “every one of their questions as fully as I could based on what I knew.” She, however, had something positive to say about Comer, “for raising a series of significant questions that I responded to about the nature of the investigation, and the areas that I thought should be explored.”
“So I appreciated that. I want to see the truth come out. So that was a reassuring way to end a very long, repetitive, deposition,” she stated. On February 27, her husband Bill will appear for his deposition, the first time in US history that a former president will testify before Congress.
