Hillary Clinton testified before the House Oversight Committee regarding Jeffrey Epstein. She insisted she had never met him and called on Donald Trump, who is alleged to have close ties with Epstein, to testify as well.
Foreign news agencies reported that Hillary Clinton, former U.S. Secretary of State, testified before the House Oversight Committee about her connections to Jeffrey Epstein, a former financier convicted of sexually abusing minors, on Thursday, 26 Feb 2026 local time.
The committee's hearing was held privately, but reports emerged that Clinton affirmed she had never met Epstein and urged President Donald Trump to testify about his own relationship with the convicted sex offender.
Reports also stated that Clinton told the committee she had no knowledge of Epstein's crimes and did not recall meeting him, nor had she ever visited his private island or flown on his plane. She further accused the committee of attempting to protect a government official, implicitly referring to Trump.
James Comer, chairman of the committee who is scheduled to question former President Bill Clinton on Friday, said, "The purpose of this investigation is to understand multiple aspects related to Epstein," the deceased sex offender.
Clinton challenged the committee, saying, "If this committee is serious about uncovering the truth regarding Epstein’s human trafficking crimes, it should directly question Trump under oath about the tens of thousands of times his name appears in Epstein’s files."
Robert Garcia, the committee's senior Democrat member, also called on Trump to testify “to answer the questions survivors across the country are asking,” adding later that “this should happen immediately.”
Meanwhile, Democratic committee member Suhas Subramanyam claimed that the “missing FBI file” excluded from previously released Department of Justice documents on Epstein contained "serious allegations of sexual abuse" targeting Trump.
Initially, the Clintons refused subpoenas ordering them to testify before the Oversight Committee, but eventually both complied after Republican lawmakers threatened contempt of Congress charges, with some Democrats supporting the move.
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Source:cna