Clintons blink first as House GOP threatens contempt over Epstein files testimony: report
Former President Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary, the former Secretary of State, agreed to testify before the House Oversight Committee during its upcoming hearing on the disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, The New York Times reported on Monday.
The announcement ends a months-long stalemate between the Clintons and Committee chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY), a fierce ally of President Donald Trump, whom the Clintons accused of participating in the president's scheme to prosecute his political enemies. It came after Democrats on the panel voted to recommend charging the Clintons with contempt after they defied a Congressional subpoena.
Comer subpoenaed the Clintons in August 2025 and demanded that Bill Clinton testify about allegations that he pressured Vanity Fair to squash a damning report about Epstein and his relationship with Epstein's co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell. Hillary Clinton was asked to testify about one of Maxwell's nephews who worked at the State Department in 2008, according to the subpoena letters.
The Clintons also bashed Comer in a statement shared with the Times.
“They negotiated in good faith. You did not,” the statement said. “They told under oath what they know, but you did not care. But the former president and former secretary of state will be there.”
The date for the hearing is still being finalized, according to the report. However, it is sure to be a circus once it kicks off. Also on the House Oversight Committee are MAGA firebrands, including Reps. Byron Donald (R-FL), Jim Jordan (R-OH), and Nancy Mace (R-SC), all of whom have a history of turning committee hearings into spectacles.