Epstein files, Bill Clinton's deposition: 'I did nothing wrong'

Donald Trump said he was "not pleased" that Bill Clinton is being questioned by the House Oversight Committee on the Jeffrey Epstein case. "I'm not pleased," he told reporters in tow according to Bloomberg reports. In recent months, the US president has repeatedly urged the committee to question Clinton.

"I have been completely exonerated" from the published files on Jeffrey Epstein. Donald Trump said this, according to Bloomberg news agency. In Thursday's streamlined testimony, Hillary Clinton urged the House Oversight Committee to hear from the US president on Epstein.

'Simply unfair'. This is how Bill Clinton described the behaviour of the Republican majority of the House Oversight Committee that summoned his wife Hillary to testify. "She had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein, and she has no memory of even meeting him," the former president said. "For you to summon 10 or 10,000 people including her is simply unfair," he concluded.

('In these Epstein files I have been brought up dozens of times, I did not know that person, fortunately I have never dealt with him, I do not know what documents are missing, they add, they disappear'. This was said by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Matteo Salvini, questioned on the matter at the press point at Fiumicino airport on the arrival of Aeroitalia's demonstration flight with dogs on board.

Regarding a possible embarrassment of the government for its closeness to the Trump administration, the minister replied: 'Relationships with the American administration all governments in the world have, who does not have a relationship with Trump and the American administration. It does not create any kind of embarrassment for me'. And 'I don't think that the American administration, the Italia government, the Hungarian government, the Polish government have problems with these issues', he added. He then pointed out that 'only a few sites in Italia can say who I would have the strength to call someone in the US to delete some pages'. But 'go figure! I struggle to keep up with what is happening in Europe'. And if someone resigns 'it means that he had something to reproach himself with, it means that there were acquaintances,' Salvini concluded.

Hillary "had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. Nothing." This was said by Bill Clinton in his opening statement before the House Oversight Committee, lamenting the committee's decision to summon his wife Hillary, whose deposition took place yesterday. Hillary, the former president continued, "does not even remember meeting him. She did not travel with him or visit any of his properties' and her summons 'was simply not correct'.

Una telecamera è posizionata all'esterno del Chappaqua Performing Arts Center, nel giorno in cui l'ex presidente degli Stati Uniti Bill Clinton dovrebbe comparire per una deposizione nell'ambito dell'indagine della Commissione di vigilanza della Camera dei rappresentanti sul defunto finanziere e condannato per reati sessuali Jeffrey Epstein, a Chappaqua, New York, Stati Uniti, 27 febbraio 2026. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

"The girls and women whose lives Jeffrey Epstein destroyed deserve not only justice, but also healing. They have waited too long for both." Bill Clinton said this in his opening statement before the House Oversight Committee investigating the Epstein affair. "Although my brief acquaintance with Epstein ended years before his crimes came to light, and although I never saw during our limited meetings any indication of what was really going on, I am here to offer what little I know so that something like this never happens again," the former Democratic president added.

Former President Bill Clinton's deposition before the House Oversight Committee on his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein has begun. The hearing is being held behind closed doors at the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center in upstate New York.

Crates of Diet Coke were brought into the courtroom where Bill Clinton is about to begin his deposition on Jeffrey Epstein before the US House Oversight Committee. Nbc news reports. The former president's passion for the diet drink is well known, so much so that during his years in the White House he was often photographed with a can of Diet Coke in his hand.

"We will ask all the necessary questions of Bill Clinton but he is the wrong president". This was said by Democratic representatives on the SC reiterating their call for Donald Trump to be called to testify under oath on the Jeffrey Epstein case. "Grow a pair and come and testify," said Congressman Robert Garcia.

James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, told Fox News that Hillary Clinton deferred questions to her husband, who is testifying today, more than a dozen times. "She kept repeating that not only did she not have a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, but that he was a barker and a con man and all that," Comer told Fox. "She has said many times under oath that she never met Jeffrey Epstein. But the reason she's been asked so many times is because we kept coming up with new evidence," the Republican added, anticipating that Bill Clinton's testimony "will last longer" than his wife's.

The top Democrat on the Republican-led congressional committee that is today putting Bill Clinton under the microscope over the Jeffrey Epstein case intends to ask questions about the relationship between the former US president and the former paedophile financier and also about foreign intelligence matters.

Robert Garcia, the California Democrat who sits on the House Oversight Committee, explained to CNN that he would like to get "any information that [Clinton] can provide on Jeffrey Epstein, what he might have seen, what he might have known. We have questions regarding foreign intelligence matters. I mean, there have been a lot of questions about whether Jeffrey Epstein was involved with any kind of foreign intelligence or in obtaining wealth or resources from foreign governments."

According to documents released by the US Department of Justice, Jeffrey Epstein attempted to purchase a multi-million dollar mansion in Morocco until the day before his arrest in 2019. The BBC reports. Epstein had been trying to acquire the famous Marrakesh palace 'Bin Ennakhil', which literally means 'in the heart of the palm grove', since 2011, but disputes with the seller over the price and how to purchase it dragged on for years. The grandiose palace, described as an architectural masterpiece, was built by 1,300 craftsmen and embellished with elaborate carvings and mosaics. On 5 July 2019, the day before his arrest, Epstein signed a $14.95m bank transfer, following an agreement to buy the offshore company that owns the property for €18m.

According to published documents, the transfer was Epstein's last major financial transaction before his arrest in the US. Three days after his arrest, Epstein's accountant, Richard Kahn, cancelled the transfer and the purchase was never completed.

The depositions of Hillary and Bill Clinton set a dangerous precedent for Donald Trump, and Republicans and the president may 'regret' for forcing their hand. Their testimony, reports CNN, is fuelling the debate over the double standard used for the Clinton Democrats compared to all those in the Trump administration who are named in Jeffrey Epstein's ranks, starting with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. None of them have so far been called to testify. Not to mention that the deposition of a former president and a former first lady potentially paves the way for that of Trump and his wife Melania. Both of them, in fact, knew Epstein and the Democrats do not intend to give up on the possibility of hearing them.

After the six-hour deposition turned by Hillary Clinton into an all-out offensive against Donald Trump and his allies on the Epstein case, today it will be Bill who will answer questions from members of the House Oversight Committee, becoming the first sitting or former president to testify before Congress since 1983. The committee's Republican chairman, James Comer, who has used all means, even the threat of contempt of Congress charges to compel the former presidential couple to testify before the committee investigating the Epstein case, said he expects Clinton's testimony to be "even longer" than his wife's, referring to the numerous times she has replied "I don't know you'll have to ask my husband." The position will also take place in Chappaqua, the New York state location where the Clintons live, will be behind closed doors, but will be recorded in full. In an attempt to avoid the depositions, seen as a political move by the Republicans, the Clintons sent an affidavit last month stating that they "had no personal knowledge" of any of the "criminal activities" of Epstein and his partner Ghislaine Maxwell.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that former US President Bill Clinton knew about the paedophile activities of US financier Jeffrey Epstein, and 'Hillary Clinton's testimony before Congress is untrue'. "Bill Clinton knew everything, and Hillary Clinton knows it too. And what she said yesterday is a total lie,' Zakharova said, quoted by the Tass news agency. Russia's foreign spokeswoman stressed that, according to Hillary Clinton's words, the former US president would have travelled on Epstein's plane, the Lolita Express, whose name is a clear reference to Vladimir Nabokov's work. "I want to stress that the name 'Lolita Express' for Epstein's plane did not appear recently. 'Lolita Express' is a name we learnt not from Epstein's files, but rather the name used by the people who flew on that plane,' Zakharova added, noting, 'these people had no doubts about the origin of the plane's name'.

The British Ministry of Defence has launched an internal investigation to ascertain whether Raf bases were used among the dozens of flights that landed in the UK in the vast trafficking of young women, often minors, set up in his time by the late American paedophile fixer Jeffrey Epstein. The announcement came after former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown reported to the police the possible use of Air Force bases or aircraft by the former Prince Andrew, during his time as an active member of the royal family and commercial envoy of British governments between 2001 and 2011, in organising trips linked to the Windsor reprobate's relations with the financier who died by suicide in prison in 2019. The Defence Secretary, John Healey, has ordered his officials to leave no stone unturned to establish whether the sexual predator landed his private jet at military sites during visits to the Kingdom.

According to the BBC, Brown had made reference to a flight made by Epstein on board a Gulfstream jet, which landed at the Raf air base in Marham, Norfolk. The facility is about 30 kilometres from the royal estate of Sandringham. There has been talk of dozens of flights linked to the affair arriving at or departing from British airports, some carrying women from the Kingdom who claim to have been sexually abused.

"I never met Epstein and had no idea of his crimes. The commission should investigate Trump." Hillary Clinton before the SC in New York defends herself and attacks the US president in the Epstein case. 'I have never been on his plane or set foot in his home, I am horrified by his crimes,' the former secretary of state added. Tomorrow it will be her husband Bill's turn.

The scandal also engulfed the president of the World Economic Forum, Borge Brende, who was forced to resign after the Forum launched an independent investigation into his dealings with the paedophile financier. Brende announced his decision following revelations by the US Department of Justice that the Norwegian had had three business dinners with Epstein and also an exchange of e-mails and text messages.

Hillary Clinton's deposition on the scandal linked to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, turned from the very first bars into an attack by the former secretary of state against Donald Trump and the Republican administration, which "is trying to cover up the affair".

The Commission will then also hear Bill Clinton, whose friendship with Epstein has already become clear without criminal implications. The chairman of the Oversight Committee himself, James Comer, Republican of Kentucky, stated that 'no one is accusing the Clintons of any wrongdoing at this time' although 'there are many questions'.

The European Commission has asked Olaf, the European Anti-Fraud Office, to investigate Peter Mandelson, the former British ambassador to the US with links to Jeffrey Epstein, during his term as European Trade Commissioner. "Given the circumstances and the large amount of documents made public, on 18 February the European Commission also asked Olaf to investigate the matter," said a Commission spokesperson. For its part, Olaf did not confirm the investigation. An influential British figure, Mandelson is under investigation for alleged misconduct in the exercise of his public duties linked to his relationship with former financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was convicted of sexual offences and died in 2019. Mandelson's ties with Epstein threatened the leadership of Premier Keir Starmer, who had appointed him ambassador despite warnings about his friendship with the financier. Mandelson was EU Trade Commissioner from November 2004 to October 2008. He was in contact with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell before, during and after that period, according to documents analysed by AP. All EU commissioners are bound by ethical obligations and an official code of conduct. Suspected breaches of these obligations may lead to investigations.