{"id":65671,"date":"2026-02-07T02:57:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T07:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/07\/clintons-call-for-their-epstein-testimony-to-be-held-publicly\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T02:57:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T07:57:29","slug":"clintons-call-for-their-epstein-testimony-to-be-held-publicly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/07\/clintons-call-for-their-epstein-testimony-to-be-held-publicly\/","title":{"rendered":"Clintons call for their Epstein testimony to be held publicly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Clinton says closed-door depositions would be akin to \u2018kangaroo court\u2019 as Hillary Clinton says they have already told House committee what they know<\/p>\n<p>Former US president Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary are calling for their congressional testimony on ties to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/jeffrey-epstein\">convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> to be held publicly, to prevent Republicans from politicising the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Both Clintons had been ordered to give closed-door depositions before the House of Representatives\u2019 oversight committee, which is investigating the deceased financier\u2019s connections to powerful figures and how information about his crimes was handled.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/07\/clintons-call-for-their-epstein-testimony-to-be-held-publicly\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Clinton says closed-door depositions would be akin to \u2018kangaroo court\u2019 as Hillary Clinton says they have already told House committee what they know Former US president Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary are calling for their congressional testimony on ties to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein to be held publicly, to prevent Republicans from &#8230; <a title=\"Clintons call for their Epstein testimony to be held publicly\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/07\/clintons-call-for-their-epstein-testimony-to-be-held-publicly\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Clintons call for their Epstein testimony to be held publicly\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}