Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Clinton, then president of the United States, at the White House in Washington, DC, in 1993. ALAMY STOCK PHOTO
The US House Oversight Committee on Tuesday, August 5, subpoenaed former president Bill Clinton and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton for testimony on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to letters posted on its website. The Clintons were among multiple former Democratic and Republican government officials, as well as the Justice Department, targeted by investigators in a major escalation of the controversy surrounding the investigation into the disgraced financier, who died in 2019 awaiting trial for sex trafficking.
The White House has been facing increasingly intense demands to be more transparent after the Justice Department angered Trump supporters – many of whom believe Epstein was murdered in a cover-up – when it confirmed last month that he had died by suicide and that his case was effectively closed. The department also said Epstein had no secret "client list," rebuffing conspiracy theories held by Trump's far-right supporters about supposedly high-level Democratic complicity.
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