Former United States President Bill Clinton testifies before members of Congress investigating the Epstein case. In a letter published on social networks addressed to the president of the same and before the statement that will be held behind closed doors, the former president, who has become the first in history to testify before Congress, has assured that he was unaware of what Jeffrey Epstein was doing: “I saw nothing and I did nothing wrong.”
“I know what I did and what I saw, and even more importantly, what I did not see and what I did not do,” he adds in the letter, while asserting that “if I had had the slightest idea of what I was doing, I would have reported him myself and led the call for justice for his crimes.” Likewise, the former president has stated that their relationship with Epstein was “brief” and that it ended “years before” everything came to light.
I didn’t see anything that made me doubt
“The girls and women whose lives Epstein destroyed deserve not only justice, but healing,” he said. This being the case, the former president has stressed that it doesn’t matter how many photos they show him of the two together, more than 20 years old, because the important thing is that “I didn’t see anything that made me doubt.”
Clinton has recalled that she grew up in a place with domestic violence, and that is why if she had known what Epstein was doing, she would have reported him. Furthermore, he has anticipated that he will respond many times in his statement that he does not remember Epstein, because “everything happened a long time ago and I am bound by my oath not to speculate or guess.” “As I am under oath, I will not falsely state that I am looking forward to your questions. But I am ready to answer them to the best of my ability,” he said.
One day after Hillary Clinton’s statement
His appearance before Congress comes just one day after that of his wife, Hillary Clinton, who denied knowing Epstein and criticized Congress’ questioning. In fact, the former president has charged against Congress in his letter: “You made Hillary come. She had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. Nothing. (…) Including her was not good,” he concluded.
Hillary Clinton, after several hours of testimony, declared that the interrogation was very repetitive. “I don’t know how many times I had to say that I don’t know Jeffrey Epstein. I never went to his island, nor to his house, nor to his offices,” he said. He did admit to having met Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s accomplice, on some occasions at Clinton Foundation events, but reiterated that he did not know Epstein personally.
