Bill and Hillary Clinton, seen during President Donald Trump's January 2025 inauguration, are being targeted by House Republicans. (Melina Mara/Pool/Getty Images)
Their depositions will come after months of back-and-forth with committee Republicans about various terms for the closed-door meetings.
"The Clintons’ testimony is critical to understanding Epstein and [Ghislaine Maxwell’s] sex trafficking network and the ways they sought to curry favor and influence to shield themselves from scrutiny," House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., told Fox News Digital on Thursday evening. "Their testimony may also inform how Congress can strengthen laws to better combat human trafficking. Our goal for this investigation is straightforward: we seek to deliver transparency and accountability for the American people and for survivors."
House Republicans nearly moved forward with a vote on holding them both in contempt of Congress last month after the Clintons' lawyers ripped Comer's subpoenas as legally invalid and a breach of separation of powers.
While some Democrats agreed with the move, the majority of them accused Comer of persecuting the Clintons on political grounds.
Former President Bill Clinton was seen in photos with Jeffrey Epstein as part of a DOJ Epstein files release on Friday, Dec. 19. He has not been implicated in any wrongdoing. (Department of Justice)
Comer has said that public hearings are not out of the question, but not before depositions behind closed doors.
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Bill Clinton was known to be friendly with Epstein long before the federal case against him first emerged and has appeared in documents on the late pedophile released by the DOJ. But neither he nor Hillary Clinton are implicated in any wrongdoing.
The Clintons are two of over a dozen people and entities who have been subpoenaed for information in the committee's bipartisan Epstein probe.
It's not unprecedented for the committee to travel for depositions, either. Committee staff and some lawmakers were in Ohio on Wednesday to depose former Victoria's Secret CEO Leslie Wexner, a former client of Epstein's financial advisory firm who was named in documents released by the DOJ about the late pedophile thousands of times.
Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.
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