{"id":2564036,"date":"2026-02-03T16:36:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T21:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/clintons-will-testify-for-epstein-investigation-later-this-month-ending-contempt-threat-5980233\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T16:37:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T21:37:30","slug":"clintons-will-testify-for-epstein-investigation-later-this-month-ending-contempt-threat-5980233","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/clintons-will-testify-for-epstein-investigation-later-this-month-ending-contempt-threat-5980233\/","title":{"rendered":"Clintons Will Testify for Epstein Investigation Later This Month, Ending Contempt Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fclintons-will-testify-for-epstein-investigation-later-this-month-ending-contempt-threat-5980233%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2564036&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former President Bill Clinton and former secretary of State Hillary clinton will give transcribed, filmed depositions as part of the House Oversight Committee\u2019s inquiry into Jeffrey Epstein, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/more-electioneering-dirty-facebook-suspends-gop-ad-campaign-days-before-january-georgia-runoff-election\/\" title=\"More Electioneering: Dirty Facebook Suspends GOP Ad Campaign Days Before January Georgia Runoff Election\">committee announced<\/a> on February 3. The Clintons had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-bolt-of-lightning-no-one-expected-fired-trump-appointee-pledges-to-sue-biden\/\" title=\"\u2018A Bolt Of Lightning No One Expected...: Fired Trump Appointee Pledges To Sue Biden\">previously refused<\/a> in-person testimony and faced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/byron-york-expresses-doubt-doj-would-cite-hunter-biden-for-contempt-of-congress\/\" title=\"Byron York doubts DOJ will charge Hunter Biden with contempt of Congress\">potential contempt vote<\/a>, but they have now agreed to appear for questioning in Congress. Here\u2019s a concise recap of that progress:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; the House Oversight Committee announced that former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will participate in transcribed, filmed depositions as part of its Jeffrey Epstein investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; They had previously refused in-person testimony and faced a potential contempt vote, but now have agreed to appear for questioning in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>What this means:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The depositions will be sworn and recorded on video, with transcripts produced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; They\u2019re a compelled form of testimony, but conducted as a deposition rather than live, in-person hearings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; If the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >committee moves forward<\/a> with the deposition, the prospect of a contempt vote related to non-compliance is effectively reduced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The proceedings could touch on Clinton family ties to Epstein, travel, donations, or other interactions, depending on the committee\u2019s questions.<\/p>\n<p>Would you like me to:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; paraphrase this for a briefing or article,<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; draft a short news blurb or social media post,<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; or pull together a quick explainer on how congressional depositions and contempt votes work?  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"top-media\"><picture><source type=\"image\/webp\"><source type=\"image\/jpeg\"><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption>\n<p><span>Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton (L) and former President Bill Clinton arrive on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 20, 2017. <\/span><span><span>Win McNamee\/Getty Images<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div data-post-content=\"true\" id=\"post_content\" data-testid=\"post_content\">\n<p>Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will appear later this month for transcribed, filmed depositions as part of the House Oversight Committee investigation of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the committee chair announced on Feb. 3.<\/p>\n<p>After initially refusing to give in-person testimony and facing a potential contempt vote in the U.S. House of Representatives, the husband and wife <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/clintons-agree-to-testify-in-epstein-investigation-5979949\" target=\"_blank\">agreed<\/a> to appear for questioning in Congress.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clintons to give transcribed Epstein probe depositions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4151,"featured_media":2564037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2017\/07\/28\/GettyImages-632188926.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543,33651],"tags":[27249,9006,8676],"class_list":["post-2564036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","category-the-western-journal","tag-clintons","tag-epstein","tag-testimony"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2017\/07\/28\/GettyImages-632188926.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2564036"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2564040,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564036\/revisions\/2564040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2564037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2564036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2564036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2564036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}