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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/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
She also knocked Republican lawmakers 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 is slated to testify behind closed doors Friday for what Comer said would be an ‘even longer’ deposition.<\/p>\n<\/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 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