Former United States President Bill Clinton (1993-2001) and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, refused this Tuesday (13) to testify before a House of Representatives committee about the case of financier Jeffrey Epstein.
In August last year, the United States House Oversight Committee had subpoenaed the Department of Justice (DOJ) and former officials from the Republican (President Donald Trump) and Democratic parties, including the Clinton couple, to obtain information about the case of Epstein, who killed himself in prison in 2019, while awaiting trial for a sex trafficking scheme.
“Each person must decide when they have seen or had enough and when they are prepared to fight for this country, its principles and its people, regardless of the consequences. For us, the time is now,” the Clintons said in a four-page letter sent to the committee’s chairman, Republican James Comer.
“The decisions you made and the priorities you established as president regarding the Epstein investigation impeded progress in discovering the facts about the government’s role,” the Clintons accused in the letter, alleging that the Republican had tried to divert attention from Trump’s alleged ties to the financier.
In turn, Comer told the press that, next week, the committee will begin procedures to declare Bill Clinton in “contempt of Congress”.
In December, in compliance with a law passed in the US Congress and sanctioned by Trump, the DOJ began releasing all documents on the federal charges against Epstein.
Trump has always denied knowledge of or participation in Epstein’s sex trafficking scheme and has never been charged with related facts, just like Clinton.
The Democrat appeared in photos released in December alongside Epstein and English socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who was the financier’s partner and girlfriend and is serving a 20-year prison sentence on charges related to the scheme.
In response, the Democrat asked the Trump administration to release all files in which he appears.
