Former Attorney General Bill Barr said he never saw anything to "implicate" President Donald Trump in Jeffrey Epstein's case, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer said. (Getty Images)
Comer said Barr told investigators that he "didn't know anything about a client list," and did not have conversations with Trump about such a list.
"Barr said he's never seen any information that showed that he was in the files, and that he would be shocked if there was anything pertaining to President Trump that was negative that the Biden administration wouldn't have leaked out prior to the presidential election," Comer said.
Democrats who were in the room for the first two hours of Barr's deposition were much more vague about what went on, but they accused Republicans of taking too soft an approach.
"I have more questions now than I did before going in," Rep. Suhas Subramanyam, D-Va., told reporters before Comer's remarks. "Just generally, though, I think the Democratic side is doing most of the heavy lifting. I don't think we're learning much from the questioning from the House Republicans."
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Rep. Suhas Subramanyam said Democrats were doing more "heavy lifting" than Democrats in Barr's deposition. (Pete Marovich For The Washington Post)
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He eventually concluded Epstein did die by suicide, Barr told the outlet, owing to "a perfect storm of screw-ups" at the jail.
When asked if Barr told as much to House investigators on Monday, Comer declined to "speak for" the former attorney general but added he believed the "general consensus" was that Epstein killed himself with no external foul play.
Barr's testimony is part of a wider bipartisan investigation into the handling of Epstein's case, which has also reached several former attorneys general, FBI directors, and former first couple Bill and Hillary Clinton.
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