After months of defiance, former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have agreed to comply with the House’s Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
For months, the Clintons refused to honor subpoenas from the Republican-led House Oversight Committee, arguing the demands were invalid and politically motivated.
Despite the Clintons’ offer to testify, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer rejected the proposal Monday and dismissed it as insufficient. Comer signaled he would move ahead with efforts to hold Bill Clinton in criminal contempt of Congress as the Epstein probe advances.
Comer has repeatedly warned that the House Oversight Committee would pursue contempt charges if the Clintons failed to comply with its subpoenas. The committee issued the subpoenas in August 2025, and Comer said he would move forward with contempt after the Clintons skipped scheduled depositions.
In a Saturday letter The New York Times obtained, the Clintons’ lawyers told Comer that Bill Clinton would sit for a four-hour, transcribed interview before the full committee, despite previously calling such a demand inappropriate for a former president. The lawyers asked that Hillary Clinton submit a sworn declaration instead of testifying, while saying she would appear in person if required.
Comer called the Clintons’ proposal unreasonable and said four hours would not suffice for Bill Clinton, whom he described as a “loquacious” witness who could try to run out the clock. In the letter, Comer said the Clintons’ push for special treatment “frustrates” the public and undermines Americans’ demand for transparency, The New York Times reported.
Comer also rejected Bill Clinton’s demand to confine the interview to narrowly defined Epstein-related topics, saying the former president likely applied a limited view of what the probe covers. Comer said he worries Clinton would dodge questions about his relationship with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, including whether they cultivated influential figures or used Clinton’s post-presidency clout to suppress damaging coverage.
The Clintons’ offer to testify reflects a reversal from their defiant stance just weeks earlier, when they vowed to fight what they described as a politically-driven investigation. Behind the scenes, their legal team sought to negotiate with the House Oversight Committee to avoid a contempt vote, including offering an under-oath interview with Bill Clinton, but Comer rejected each proposal and demanded an open-ended, transcribed appearance before the full committee.
A member of the Clintons’ legal team even contacted Comer directly in recent days to resolve the impasse, but Comer did not respond and later said no agreement existed. Comer said he viewed the latest offer in light of what he called the Clintons’ repeated reluctance to testify and questioned whether Bill Clinton intended to answer questions at all. (RELATED: REPORT: Bill Clinton Took Epstein And Maxwell To King’s Wedding)
The Clintons continue to downplay their past ties to Epstein, saying they cut off contact with him in 2005, three years before he pleaded guilty to state sex crimes in Florida. Clinton spokesman Angel Ureña said Bill Clinton took four flights on Epstein’s jet between 2002 and 2003 but never visited Epstein’s private island or homes, adding that the travel occurred more than two decades ago and ended before Clinton severed ties.
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