{"id":67472,"date":"2026-02-26T20:55:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T01:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/hillary-clinton-comes-out-swinging-after-gop-grilled-her-during-marathon-epstein-deposition\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T20:55:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T01:55:24","slug":"hillary-clinton-comes-out-swinging-after-gop-grilled-her-during-marathon-epstein-deposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/hillary-clinton-comes-out-swinging-after-gop-grilled-her-during-marathon-epstein-deposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton comes out swinging after GOP grilled her during marathon Epstein deposition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton<\/a> wasted no time criticizing Republicans after she emerged from a roughly six-hour grilling in the House Oversight Committee’s Jeffrey Epstein probe Thursday evening.<\/p>\n

Clinton told reporters she answered questions “repetitively, literally over and over again” after blasting Republicans for holding a closed-door deposition instead<\/a> of a public hearing.<\/p>\n

She said, however, that she would not testify again if there was a public hearing, telling reporters, “They had a chance to do it in public, and I wish they had done it in public. And I think they’re making the wrong decision, avoiding doing it in public.<\/p>\n

“It then got, at the end, quite unusual because I started being asked about UFOs and a series of questions about Pizzagate, one of the most vile, bogus conspiracy theories that was propagated on the internet that was serving as the basis of a member’s questions to me,” Clinton said.<\/p>\n

REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: CLINTONS CALL FOR OPEN EPSTEIN FILES HEARING AFTER MONTHS OF DEFYING SUBPOENAS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

She also knocked Republican lawmakers<\/a> for not attending the deposition of former Victoria’s Secret CEO Leslie Wexner in person.<\/p>\n

Clinton did save praise for House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., however, “for raising a series of significant questions that I responded to about the nature of the investigation and the areas that I thought should be explored.”<\/p>\n

“So, I appreciated that. I want to see the truth come out. So, that was a reassuring way to end a very long, repetitive, deposition,” Clinton said.<\/p>\n

She also reiterated comments from her opening statement that she did not know Epstein and said she only knew Ghislaine Maxwell “as an acquaintance.”<\/p>\n

When asked why Maxwell was invited to daughter Chelsea Clinton’s wedding, however, Clinton said she was a “plus-one of someone invited.”<\/p>\n

Clinton’s deposition began in the 11 a.m. hour and wrapped in the 5 p.m. hour in her hometown of Chappaqua, New York.<\/p>\n

Comer said afterward that Clinton “answered most of our questions” in a “productive” deposition but said Republicans ultimately “weren’t satisfied” with what they gleaned.<\/p>\n

“The number of times that she said, ‘I don’t know, you’ll have to ask my husband,’ was more than a dozen,” Comer said.<\/p>\n

Former President Bill Clinton<\/a> is slated to testify behind closed doors Friday for what Comer said would be an “even longer” deposition.<\/p>\n

CLINTONS CAVE: COMER SAYS BILL AND HILLARY TO TESTIFY IN EPSTEIN PROBE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Neither Clinton is implicated in any wrongdoing related to Epstein or Maxwell, but Bill Clinton was known to have a relationship with the late financier and sex trafficker before the federal investigations into Epstein’s crimes came to light.<\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton said that relationship “ended years, several years, before anything about Epstein’s criminal activities came to light.”<\/p>\n

Rep. William Timmons, R-S.C., told Fox News Digital it was “frustrating” to see Hillary Clinton “obstinate and sort of annoyed at the process.”<\/p>\n

“She had an excuse for everything. But when you’ve got a pattern of involvement and a pattern of association, the American people deserve answers,” Timmons said.<\/p>\n

“Honestly, I tend to find her to be fairly credible, but I mean, all of this is going to culminate tomorrow with President Clinton, and<\/a> he has a lot of really hard questions to answer. And I don’t think that the American people are going to like his answers.”<\/p>\n

The deposition was tense at times, a tension Clinton alluded to when she accused Republicans of breaking the rules when Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., apparently shared a photo from inside the deposition room with a right-wing influencer.<\/p>\n

“We had a bit of a challenge in the beginning because we agreed upon rules based on the fact it was going to be a closed hearing at their demand. And one of the members violated that rule, which was very upsetting because it suggested that they might violate other of our agreements,” Clinton said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“So, we had to cease the hearing for a period of time until we could get assurances that no rules would be broken going forward.”<\/p>\n

It’s notable, however, that Democrats also leaked information from inside the room but did not get any public blowback. A New York Times reporter posted reporting about the deposition on X<\/a> earlier in the day while citing a “Dem member in the room.”<\/p>\n

Bill Clinton’s deposition is also expected to kick off in the 11 a.m. hour on Friday at the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wasted no time criticizing Republicans after she emerged from a roughly six-hour grilling in the House Oversight Committee’s Jeffrey Epstein probe Thursday evening. Clinton told reporters she answered questions “repetitively, literally over and over again” after blasting Republicans for holding a closed-door deposition instead of a public hearing. She … 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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67472","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=67472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}