On February 26, 2026, Hillary Clinton gave a closed-door deposition about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to members of the U.S. House Oversight Committee, led by James Comer, a Republican. Hillary Clinton and her husband, Bill Clinton, who had been threatened with contempt of Congress if they refused to testify, had requested an open hearing, but that request was denied.
The deposition came as the scandal over files related to Epstein deepened with the public release of millions of pages of documents revealing his connections to the world’s rich and powerful. Hillary Clinton has denied ever meeting Epstein, although she had several interactions with Epstein’s coconspirator Ghislaine Maxwell.
In her opening statement Hillary Clinton said, “I had no idea about their criminal activities. I do not recall ever encountering Mr. Epstein. I never flew on his plane or visited his island home or offices.” She later said that “If this committee is serious about learning the truth about Epstein’s trafficking crimes, it would not rely on press gaggles to get answers from our current president [Donald Trump] on his involvement; it would ask him directly under oath about the tens of thousands of times he shows up in the Epstein files.”