Bill and Hillary Clinton have pushed back their scheduled appearances before the House Oversight Committee, buying more time in an investigation that’s peeling back layers on the federal handling of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking empire. The subpoenas dropped in early August, pulling the former president and secretary of state into the spotlight over their well-documented ties to the late pedophile financier.
Hillary skipped her October 9 slot, and now Bill’s Tuesday deposition—set for October 15—won’t happen either, with no rescheduled dates announced.
Committee Chairman James Comer laid it out plain in an August interview: “Everybody in America wants to know what went on in Epstein Island, and we’ve all heard reports that Bill Clinton was a frequent visitor there, so he’s a prime suspect to be deposed by the House Oversight Committee.”
Yet here we are, with the Clintons’ lawyer in talks to “accommodate their schedules,” according to a committee spokesperson. Accommodate? That’s the word floating around, as if this is some casual calendar shuffle instead of a probe into one of the darkest scandals involving elites who always seem to skate by.
Epstein’s web snared powerful names, and the Clintons were right in the thick of it. Records show Epstein dropped by the White House over 17 times during Bill’s presidency, and there’s that 1992 photo capturing Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Bill together in the Oval Office digs. Bill admits to hitching rides on the infamous “Lolita Express” more than 20 times after leaving office. Maxwell, now locked up for 20 years on trafficking charges, once called Bill “her friend, and not Epstein’s.”
This delay smells like classic stalling tactics from a duo that’s mastered the art of evasion. Why the rush to reschedule when the truth about Epstein’s island antics—and who knew what—hangs in the balance? Whispers persist that Epstein’s “suicide” in 2019 was no accident, a convenient tie-off for loose ends protecting the untouchables. And now, with files from Epstein’s estate—including his black book and will—trickling into Congress, the heat should be on. Even a birthday book entry from Bill himself popped up in those documents, listed under “friends.”
Hmmmmm. Wonder why?