Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday challenged Republicans on the House Oversight Committee to take the testimony of her and former President Bill Clinton about sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in public and not in a closed session as those lawmakers plan.
Hillary Clinton made the demand after she and Bill Clinton dropped their efforts to resist subpoenas to testify before that committee, whose Republican leadership had threatened a vote on holding them in contempt of Congress if they refused to appear.
“For six months, we engaged Republicans on the Oversight Committee in good faith,” Hillary Clinton said in a post on X. “We told them what we know, under oath. They ignored all of it. They moved the goalposts and turned accountability into an exercise in distraction.”
“So let’s stop the games. If you want this fight, @RepJamesComer, let’s have it — in public,” Clinton wrote, naming the panel’s chairman.
“You love to talk about transparency. There’s nothing more transparent than a public hearing, cameras on.”
