Hillary Clinton testifies about Jeffrey Epstein in House investigation

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will give a deposition to the House Oversight Committee about accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Rep. James Comer, who is leading the House inquiry into accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, said lawmakers will question former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Feb. 26 about why Epstein raised money for her family's foundation and why his associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, attended her daughter's wedding.

“No one is accusing at this moment the Clintons of wrongdoing,” Comer, R-Kentucky, told reporters before the Clinton deposition began in the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center near her home in New York. “But we have a lot of questions.”

The congressional inquiry comes at a time when lawmakers and women who accused Epstein of abuse have forced the Justice Department to released 3 million pages of documents from his criminal investigation. But millions more pages remain sealed and President Donald Trump has said the country should move on.

Epstein died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal charges of child sex trafficking. Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison term for conspiring to transport minors for illicit sex. Critics of the investigation have questioned why more co-conspirators haven’t been charged.

Former President Bill Clinton is scheduled to testify Feb. 27 in what will be the first time Congress has forced a former president to answer questions, although presidents occasionally answered questions voluntarily.