Comer reveals new facts emerged from Clinton depositions in Epstein probe

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer said Friday that closed-door depositions with former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yielded new information in the committee's investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein case.

The depositions came only after both Clintons initially refused to comply with congressional subpoenas, a standoff that forced the committee to vote to move forward with contempt of Congress resolutions against them.

Comer told reporters the committee pressed the Clintons on specific documents and correspondence obtained through subpoenas, and that video of the depositions could be made public within a day.

"I do think that we picked up some new facts. We asked both Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton where we should go from here as a committee because we're sincere about trying to get the truth to the American people and hold some bad actors accountable."

The Clintons couldn't recall

If the phrase sounds familiar, it should. Comer said investigators confronted both Clintons with detailed questions about subpoenaed documents and correspondence obtained from the Department of Justice and the Epstein estate. The responses followed a pattern Washington knows well.

"Many times the Clintons couldn't recall or didn't know or denied that they were pertaining to them."

"Couldn't recall." "Didn't know." "Denied." Three phrases that have shielded the Clinton family from accountability for the better part of three decades. The playbook hasn't changed. Only the stakes have.

This is an investigation into the network surrounding a late financier whose crimes against vulnerable people are not in dispute. The American public deserves more than selective amnesia from two of the most powerful people who moved in Epstein's orbit, as The Daily Caller reports.

What the committee has gathered

The scope of the investigation is substantial. The committee subpoenaed tens of thousands of Epstein-related records from the DOJ, including correspondence, contact logs, photographs, and other files. The DOJ responded by producing those materials.

Separately, the committee subpoenaed the Epstein estate for additional records dating from roughly 1990 to 2019, including Epstein's "birthday book" of letters and other estate documents. That's nearly three decades of records. Whatever the Clintons claim they can't remember, the paper trail may remember for them.

Comer acknowledged the depositions did not produce everything investigators hoped for but maintained the sessions were productive:

"I think we learned some things. We were hoping to get more, but there were many questions, as you will see hopefully in the next 24 hours when the videos are released, that there were a lot of very specific questions about very specific documents and correspondence that were subpoenaed by, that we got from the Department of Justice as well as the Epstein estate."

Contempt as the cost of compliance

It's worth pausing on the fact that the Clintons did not sit for these depositions voluntarily. The committee had to threaten contempt of Congress to get them in the room. That alone tells a story.

People eager to clear their names don't resist subpoenas. People confident in their answers don't need to be compelled to give them. The Clintons fought the process, lost, showed up, and then couldn't recall. Every step of that sequence points in the same direction.

The contempt vote was not a formality. It was a signal that this committee is willing to use its full authority to pursue answers, regardless of the last name on the subpoena.

What comes next

Comer's promise to release deposition video within 24 hours is the right move. Transparency turns political theater into public record. Let the American people watch both Clintons respond to specific questions about specific documents and decide for themselves whether "I don't recall" is an answer or a strategy.

The committee now holds tens of thousands of records spanning nearly three decades, deposition testimony from two former occupants of the highest offices in the land, and whatever "new facts" Friday's sessions produced. The next phase will test whether Congress can convert information into accountability.

For years, the Epstein case has carried the suspicion that the most connected names would never face real scrutiny. That powerful people would be protected by the same institutions designed to hold them accountable. The Oversight Committee is challenging that assumption.

The Clintons showed up. They sat down. They couldn't recall. Now the documents will do the talking.