Former First Lady Hillary Clinton told the House of Representatives Committee investigating the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein that she had no useful information to impart about the deceased, sex-trafficking financer.
But she also told members of Congress who trekked to her leafy hometown of Chappaqua in upstate New York that she knows who might be able to help them.
“If this Committee is serious about learning the truth about Epstein’s trafficking crimes, it would not rely on press gaggles to get answers from our current President on his involvement,” she said in her opening statement. “It would ask him directly under oath about the tens of thousands of times he shows up in the Epstein files.”
Mrs Clinton’s demand – which may well be reinforced when her husband, former President Bill Clinton, is deposed on Friday – is a dramatic upping of the ante at the very moment the White House is besieged with fresh questions about President Donald Trump’s friendship with Epstein.
On Wednesday, the Department of Justice said it is now reviewing whether it improperly withheld some documents when it released 3 million pages Epstein-related raw evidence to the public earlier last month. That move followed fresh reporting by investigative political reporter Roger Sullenberger on Substack, National Public Radio and the New York Times.
All three discovered that the trove of documents released to the public on 30 January included a brief mention of evidence taken from a woman who claimed in 2019 that Trump and Epstein had assaulted her in the 1980s when she is believed to have been just 13 years old.
The files suggested that the woman was interviewed only once, and no summary of the interview was included in the released documents. But Sullenberger discovered that she was interviewed by investigators three more times, and that all paperwork relating to those additional conversations was not included in the release authorised by Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Entering the Chappaqua Performing Arts Centre ahead of the deposition with Mrs. Clinton, Congressman Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, accused Bondi and the White House of a cover-up.
“The interviews and information around this survivor have been removed or are missing from the DoJ files,” he proclaimed. “Where are these files? Who removed them? Those questions have to be answered. What we have is a survivor that we have verified, that others have verified, and that those files are missing…it is unconscionable, it is illegal, and Pam Bondi and the President need to answer as to where those files are.”
For the Clintons, the latest revelations could not possibly have come at a better moment, just as Republicans hoped to divert the public’s full attention on the former President’s relationship with Epstein, and as many as six flights he may have taken on the financier’s private plane, the so-called “Lolita Express”. Clinton denies ever visiting Epstein island, and there has been no evidence to support Trump’s claim that the former president travelled to Little Saint James “supposedly 28 times”.
Trump claims he has been “absolved” of any criminal or nefarious activities involving Epstein as a result of last month’s document dump by the Department of Justice. “I’ve been totally exonerated, it’s very nice”, he told reporters aboard Air Force One last week, when reacting to the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. “I’m the one that can talk about it because I’ve been totally exonerated, I did nothing, in fact the opposite,” he claimed.
But now, he has to contend with his own Department of Justice conceding that they need to determine whether any documents that should have been released were withheld. Bondi is already accused by Democrats and dissident Republicans of improperly holding back another 3 million pages of evidence that she claims cannot be released without endangering the privacy of Epstein’s victims or harming the sanctity of ongoing investigations.
But a Justice Department spokeswoman told reporters on Wednesday night that “should any document be found to have been improperly tagged in the review process and is responsive to the Act [requiring disclosure], the Department will of course publish it, consistent with the law”.
Trump and his aides can now only hope that details of the FBI interviews with the president’s accuser that were not revealed to the public, contain no reliable information to incriminate him.
While Hillary Clinton endured questions from Republicans on the Oversight Committee whom she accuses of tormenting her family, she could at least rest easy in the knowledge that her opening statement deflected attention in the direction of America’s sitting president, for whom real absolution in the Epstein affair is still a distant dream.
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