Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will sit for back-to-back depositions this week before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, capping a six-month standoff with Republican investigators probing their past ties to Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
Hillary Clinton is scheduled to testify Thursday morning, followed by the 42nd president on Friday. Both depositions will take place in Chappaqua, New York, as an accommodation to the couple’s schedules, according to a committee spokesperson. Representatives for the committee, which is chaired by Rep. James Comer (R-KY), have said the interviews will be transcribed and filmed, with video expected to be released publicly.
House Republicans are preparing an aggressive line of questioning for the former president, including confronting him with photographs released in December as part of the Justice Department’s Epstein files disclosure obligations. According to the New York Post, GOP aides plan to press Bill Clinton about images showing him in a hot tub, swimming in a pool with Maxwell, and posing with unidentified women, some of whose faces were redacted in the files.
“Even something as simple as that can solicit reactions,” one Republican aide told the outlet earlier this week, describing a strategy to raise the images early in an effort to elicit candid responses.
Bill Clinton’s relationship with Epstein has been well documented. Flight logs show he traveled on Epstein’s private jet at least four times in 2002 and 2003, a claim confirmed by one of his representatives, Angel Urena, who also said the former president “knows nothing about the terrible crimes Epstein pleaded guilty to in Florida some time ago.”
A committee report submitted by Comer earlier this year also referenced a 2014 dinner Bill Clinton attended with Maxwell, years after public reporting about her alleged involvement in Epstein’s abuse. The former president has said his travel was tied to charitable work, and the same report referenced a $25,000 donation the Clinton Foundation received in 2006 from a “charity organization” formerly run by Epstein.
The former secretary of state and first lady was subpoenaed in part over her hiring of Maxwell’s nephew during her 2008 campaign and later at the State Department. Lawmakers are also expected to question her about a recent BBC interview in which she said the couple had “no links” to Epstein and that she did not recall ever meeting him, according to the Post.
Committee Republicans have signaled interest in Maxwell’s reported involvement in the early days of the Clinton Global Initiative, which launched in 2004. Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence following her 2021 conviction on sex trafficking charges, participated in early CGI events, according to materials released in the DOJ’s Epstein document dump.
The Clintons were originally scheduled to testify last year, but after multiple postponements and missed appearances, the committee voted to recommend holding them in contempt of Congress. They later agreed to the February depositions. Bill Clinton recently wrote on X that he would not be “a prop in a closed-door kangaroo court” but said he had agreed to appear.
I will not sit idly as they use me as a prop in a closed-door kangaroo court by a Republican Party running scared. If they want answers, let’s stop the games & do this the right way: in a public hearing, where the American people can see for themselves what this is really about.
— Bill Clinton (@BillClinton) February 6, 2026
Neither Clinton has ever been accused of wrongdoing by the DOJ. Their testimony will follow that of retail magnate Les Wexner, who denied knowledge of Epstein’s crimes at the time he maintained business relationships with Epstein, and Maxwell, who invoked her Fifth Amendment rights during a virtual deposition.
The committee’s slate of depositions has so far failed to yield many new details, aside from shedding a little more light on Epstein and Maxwell’s network of high-profile and elite figures.
While the United Kingdom has recently been roiled in scandals following the arrests of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, and former ambassador Peter Mandelson, allegations of close associations between Epstein and powerful figures in the U.S. have only prompted professional consequences, such as the resignation of Kathryn Ruemmler from Goldman Sachs as its chief legal officer, and that of Richard Axel, who stepped down from his role as co-director of the neuroscience institute at Columbia University.
Meanwhile, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates reportedly apologized to the staff of his charitable organization this week for his ties to Epstein, and he acknowledged having affairs with two Russian women, the details of which were in the Epstein files.
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Although additional associates of Epstein are still scheduled to testify in March, the Clintons’ appearances, based on their status alone, will be among the most closely watched moments in Congress’s investigation of Epstein’s network and the powerful figures who moved in his orbit.
The Washington Examiner contacted the former president’s office but did not receive a response.
