Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in Berlin, Germany, on February 16, 2026. ADAM BERRY / AFP
Hillary Clinton used her forced appearance before a Republican-led panel probing the case of deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to go on the offensive on Thursday, February 26, demanding that President Donald Trump testify about his own links to Epstein.
The Republican-led House Oversight Committee is probing those who were linked to Epstein, who died in a New York jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial. James Comer, who chairs the committee that will also grill former president Bill Clinton on Friday, said "the purpose of the whole investigation is to try to understand many things about Epstein." An individual mentioned in the files linked to Epstein is not proof that they have committed any crime.
Clinton told the congressional committee that she had no information about Epstein's crimes, never recalled encountering him and had never visited his island or flown on his plane, accusing the panel of trying to "protect one public official": Trump.
Clinton challenged the panel, saying, "if this committee is serious about learning the truth about Epstein's trafficking crimes (...) it would ask [Trump] directly under oath about the tens of thousands of times he shows up in the Epstein files."
