{"id":2574458,"date":"2026-02-27T13:41:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-clinton-denies-knowledge-of-epstein-crimes-in-house-deposition\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T13:44:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:44:02","slug":"bill-clinton-denies-knowledge-of-epstein-crimes-in-house-deposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-clinton-denies-knowledge-of-epstein-crimes-in-house-deposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Clinton denies knowledge of Epstein crimes in House deposition"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fbill-clinton-denies-knowledge-of-epstein-crimes-in-house-deposition%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=2574458&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 told the House oversight Committee that he had no knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s crimes, saying \u201cI saw nothing, and I did nothing wrong,\u201d in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/snap-misses-revenue-targets-as-growing-competition-slows-growth-shares-fall\/\" title=\"Snap misses revenue targets as growing competition slows growth, shares fall\">prepared remarks released ahead<\/a> of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-what-republicans-need-to-ask-jack-smith-on-thursday-26\/\" title=\"Here&#039;s What Republicans Need To Ask Jack Smith On Thursday\">closed\u2011door deposition<\/a>. The deposition is part of a bipartisan inquiry into Epstein\u2019s network and how authorities handled the case, with Republicans aiming to question Clinton about epstein\u2019s contacts with the White House and his travel on Epstein\u2019s private plane.<\/p>\n<p>Key points:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Clinton framed his involvement as answering lingering questions and supporting victims, noting he ended his acquaintance with Epstein years before Epstein\u2019s crimes became public.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; He defended Hillary Clinton,who testified the day before,saying she had nothing to do with Epstein and had no memory of meeting him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Clinton pledged not to speculate about events he cannot clearly recall, stating he is bound by oath.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The deposition marks the culmination of months of negotiations between investigators and Clinton\u2019s legal team; lawmakers also plan to release video of the deposition and may release Hillary Clinton\u2019s deposition as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The committee is examining Epstein\u2019s relationships with influential figures and whether earlier investigations failed to hold him or others accountable.  <\/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<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Bill Clinton denies knowledge of Epstein&rsquo;s crimes: &lsquo;I saw nothing&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2516966\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Former President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/bill-clinton\/\">Bill Clinton<\/a> said he had no knowledge of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jeffrey-epstein\/\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>&rsquo;s criminal conduct and &ldquo;did nothing wrong,&rdquo; according to opening remarks released publicly on Friday as he appeared for a closed-door deposition before the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4474298\/watch-live-james-comer-bill-clinton-testimony-jeffrey-epstein\/\">House oversight committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I had no idea of the crimes Epstein was committing,&rdquo; Clinton said in the prepared statement <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BillClinton\/status\/2027424128559452573\">posted<\/a> to X ahead of the interview. &ldquo;I saw nothing, and I did nothing wrong.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4474351\/house-oversight-bill-clinton-jeffrey-epstein-white-house-visits\/\">House oversight to grill Bill Clinton about Epstein visiting White House 17 times<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4474298\/watch-live-james-comer-bill-clinton-testimony-jeffrey-epstein\/\">WATCH LIVE: James Comer speaks to press ahead of Bill Clinton&#8217;s testimony on Epstein<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4474183\/veronica-escobar-close-texas-ice-camp-east-montana\/\">Veronica Escobar leads calls to close Texas ICE detention center after deaths<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As someone who grew up in a home with domestic abuse, not only would I not have flown on his plane if I had any inkling of what he was doing&mdash;I would have turned him in myself and led the call for justice for his crimes, not sweetheart deals. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0rX8cat5Pu\">pic.twitter.com\/0rX8cat5Pu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bill Clinton (@BillClinton) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillClinton\/status\/2027424128559452573?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    <\/p>\n<p>In the statement, Clinton framed his participation as part of a broader effort to answer lingering public questions about Epstein and to support victims.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The girls and women whose lives Jeffrey Epstein destroyed deserve not only justice, but healing,&rdquo; he said, adding that his &ldquo;brief acquaintance&rdquo; with Epstein ended years before the financier&rsquo;s crimes became publicly known.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton also defended former Secretary of State&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hillary-clinton\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hillary-clinton\/\">Hillary Clinton<\/a>, who testified the day before, saying she &ldquo;had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein&rdquo; and had no memory of even meeting him.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You made Hillary come in,&rdquo; he said in the statement. &ldquo;She had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. Nothing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >42nd president repeatedly emphasized<\/a> that he was unaware of Epstein&rsquo;s misconduct during the period the two were acquainted and said he would have acted differently had he known.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As someone who grew up in a home with domestic abuse, not only would I not have flown on his plane if I had any inkling of what he was doing &mdash; I would have turned him in myself,&rdquo; Clinton said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that, even with hindsight, he never observed behavior that suggested Epstein&rsquo;s crimes, saying the financier &ldquo;hid it from everyone so well for so long.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Clinton also signaled he would be cautious in his testimony, telling lawmakers he would not speculate about events he could not clearly recall decades later.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;ll often hear me say that I don&rsquo;t recall,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;This was all a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ben-franklins-name-scrubbed-from-tacoma-city-park\/\" title=\"Ben Franklin\u2019s Name Scrubbed From Tacoma City Park\">long time ago<\/a>. And I am bound by my oath not to speculate, or to guess.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Clinton&rsquo;s testimony marked the culmination of months of negotiations between congressional investigators and his legal team over the terms of his appearance in the committee&rsquo;s inquiry into Epstein&rsquo;s network and the government&rsquo;s handling of the case.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the deposition began, Rep. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/anna-paulina-luna\/\">Anna Paulina Luna<\/a> (R-FL) told reporters outside that Clinton was &ldquo;being very cooperative&rdquo; and &ldquo;answering all of our questions.&rdquo; She declined to discuss specifics while the session was ongoing but said she had &ldquo;no reason to believe right now that he&rsquo;s hiding the ball.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Luna also pushed back on efforts by some Democrats to call what she described as &ldquo;not credible witnesses,&rdquo; saying the committee would not entertain individuals who made &ldquo;unfounded allegations.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Just as we wouldn&rsquo;t call in an individual like Sarah Ransom, who we know made up claims, we&rsquo;re not going to do the same thing for President Trump,&rdquo; Luna said, adding she would vote against bringing forward witnesses who have made &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jack-smith-indicts-trump-for-questioning-outcome-of-election\/\" title=\"Jack Smith Indicts Trump For Questioning Outcome Of Election\">false claims&#038;rdquo<\/a>; against either Clinton or President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>She further argued that Epstein showed &ldquo;all of the telltale signs of an intelligence gathering operation&rdquo; and called for the committee to examine others she said were complicit in trafficking activity.<\/p>\n<p>The deposition comes as lawmakers seek to examine how Epstein cultivated relationships with influential figures and whether earlier investigations failed to hold him or others in his circle accountable.<\/p>\n<p>House oversight Chairman&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/james-comer\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/james-comer\/\">James Comer<\/a> (R-KY)&nbsp;said ahead of the session that Republicans planned to question Clinton about Epstein&rsquo;s documented contacts with the White House and his past travel aboard Epstein&rsquo;s private plane, matters that have appeared in flight logs, photographs, and other records reviewed by investigators.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4474351\/house-oversight-bill-clinton-jeffrey-epstein-white-house-visits\/\">HOUSE OVERSIGHT TO GRILL BILL CLINTON ABOUT EPSTEIN VISITING WHITE HOUSE 17 TIMES<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Neither Bill nor Hillary Clinton has been charged with or formally accused of wrongdoing related to Epstein&rsquo;s crimes.<\/p>\n<p>The committee is expected to release video of the former president&rsquo;s deposition in the coming days, and footage of his wife&rsquo;s deposition may be released as early as Friday, according to Comer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clinton says he saw nothing of Epstein&#8217;s crimes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2633,"featured_media":2574459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bill-clinton-on-The-View-scaled-e1772214870678.webp?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651,538],"tags":[72879,9006,74760],"class_list":["post-2574458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","category-washington-examiner","tag-bill-clinton-2","tag-epstein","tag-house-deposition-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bill-clinton-on-The-View-scaled-e1772214870678.webp?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574458","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\/2633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2574458"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2574462,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574458\/revisions\/2574462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2574459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2574458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2574458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2574458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}