“I know nothing and I have done nothing wrong.” Bill Clinton, the first former president to testify before a congressional committee since 1983, has denied any involvement in one of the largest scandals in recent years, despite clear evidence of his connection to Jeffrey Epstein.
Donald Trump “never told me anything that would make me think he was involved in the Jeffrey Epstein case,” Clinton said, according to President James Comer. As for the need to question the tycoon: “It’s up to you to decide”, replied the former president.
In a brief deposition, the former occupant of the White House did not invoke the Fifth Amendment, like his wife Hillary the day before, but used the answer “I don’t remember” several times when faced with questions from the House Oversight Committee. On the other hand, over 20 years have passed since the evenings spent in the residences of the pedophile financier, immortalized in several merciless shots published by the Department of Justice, including a particularly embarrassing one which shows him in a Jacuzzi next to a woman.
At the House Oversight Committee, Bill Clinton declared that he neither knew nor had sexual intercourse with the woman with whom he was photographed in a jacuzzi in one of the images published by the Justice Department in the context of the Jeffrey Epstein case. Informed sources reported this to CNN. A “brief acquaintance,” 79-year-old Bill called it in his opening statement. Yet the documents in the dossier demonstrate that the monster, who committed suicide in prison in 2019, visited him at least 17 times in the presidential residence. “I had no idea of his crimes,” insisted the former president, whose defense is based on the fact that his relationship with Epstein ended before 2003, when the pedophile received his first conviction.
“I know what I did and more importantly what I didn’t do. I know what I saw and more importantly what I didn’t see,” he said again in his opening statement to the House committee. It almost seems like deja vu, a return in time to 1999, when Clinton became the first president to be impeached in 130 years for the affair with the then White House intern, twenty-year-old Monica Lewinsky. It was another world, a pre-MeToo era where too often victims of sexual abuse were not listened to or, worse, dismissed. But that was a consensual relationship, according to what Lewinsky herself assured, albeit tainted by power imbalances and enormous hierarchical gaps. In this case it is a matter of sexual trafficking of minors which has continued for years under the eyes of the American elite.
The former commander-in-chief is not accused of any crime nor has he ever been reported by any girl. “He is the wrong president”, the Democrats attacked, inviting, once again, the commission to summon Donald Trump and have him deposed under oath. “Pull your balls out and come and testify,” said Democratic MP Robert Garcia. But the many contacts between Clinton and Epstein documented in the photos of the parties, the trips on the infamous private plane ‘Lolita Express’ after he left the White House, the presence of his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell at his daughter Chelsea’s wedding in 2010 weigh like boulders on Bill’s reputation.
“Having grown up in a family where domestic abuse occurred, not only would I not have gotten on his plane if I had any idea what he was doing, I would have reported him myself and led the charge for justice for his crimes, not for advantageous deals,” Clinton said, recalling his childhood devastated by an alcoholic stepfather who was abusive towards his mother. “The victims not only deserve justice, they deserve to heal.”
The former president also wanted to talk about Hillary. The lawyer, former Secretary of State, former presidential candidate, author of books and point of reference for millions of American women who has once again found herself in the difficult position of defending her husband from a scandal that cannot fail to affect her directly. If not as a wife, then as a woman. “It had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein,” Clinton said. “Calling her to testify was simply wrong.”
‘Bill Clinton, Trump told me about his breakup with Epstein in 2000’
Bill Clinton testified that Donald Trump told him in the early 2000s during a golf tournament that he had had an argument with Jeffrey Epstein over a real estate deal. Two informed sources reported this to CNN.