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发布时间：2026年2月27日 美国东部时间上午6:00
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前总统比尔·克林顿将于周五就众议院监督委员会对杰弗里·爱泼斯坦调查的高风险证词进行闭门陈述。
闭门会议预计将于上午11点在纽约州韦斯特切斯特县查帕奎因表演艺术中心举行。
自前总统任期结束离开白宫后，查帕奎因一直是克林顿夫妇的主要居所。
数月来，共和党人一直急于就比尔·克林顿与爱泼斯坦的关系向其提问，委员会也一直在与他的律师就采访条款反复协商。
前总统比尔·克林顿于2024年12月4日在纽约市舞台上发表讲话。（尤金·戈洛古尔斯基/盖蒂图片社）
预计民主党人和共和党人都会对克林顿进行严厉质询，委员会工作人员也将参与其中。
他的陈述发生在他的妻子、前国务卿希拉里·克林顿在爱泼斯坦调查中进行了长时间陈述的前一天。
然而，肯塔基州共和党众议员、众议院监督委员会主席詹姆斯·科默周四告诉记者，他预计比尔·克林顿的陈述时间将”比他妻子的更长”。
[比尔、希拉里·克林顿将因众议院监督委员会爱泼斯坦调查在纽约接受质询]
他还于周四强调，克林顿夫妇目前都没有被指控与爱泼斯坦有关的不当行为。
“目前没有人指控克林顿夫妇有任何不当行为。他们将得到正当程序，”科默说。”但我们有很多问题，整个调查的目的是试图了解关于爱泼斯坦的许多事情。”
两次陈述的视频将在稍后发布。
希拉里·克林顿在开场陈述中告诉议员们，她不记得与爱泼斯坦有任何接触，也没有向委员会提供超过1月13日声明中包含的信息。
她还批评该调查对她的关注是”钓鱼式调查”，并指责共和党人试图利用她转移对特朗普的注意力。
“一个旨在阻止人口贩卖的委员会会试图了解需要采取哪些具体步骤来修复一个允许爱泼斯坦在2008年逃脱罪行的系统，”根据她的开场发言，她对委员会说。
[记者笔记：克林顿夫妇在数月违抗传票后呼吁举行公开爱泼斯坦档案听证会]
“但这并没有发生。相反，你们强迫我作证，明知我没有任何有助于调查的信息，目的是转移对特朗普总统行动的注意力，并掩盖这些行动，尽管有合理的要求答案的呼声。”
然而，与他的妻子不同，比尔·克林顿在联邦调查与未成年人卖淫和性交易相关的调查之前，就已有大量记录在案的与爱泼斯坦的关系。
联邦政府发布的爱泼斯坦相关文件中多次出现比尔·克林顿的名字和照片，飞行记录显示他确实乘坐过爱泼斯坦的飞机。
但他和希拉里·克林顿都没有被牵连到爱泼斯坦的罪行中。
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委员会还采访了两名前特朗普政府官员，前司法部长比尔·巴尔和前劳工部长亚历克斯·阿科斯塔。
他们的证词是在众议院几乎投票决定因克林顿夫妇违抗科默传票而对其提出藐视国会指控数周后发表的。在克林顿夫妇表示将配合后，众议院领导人放弃了这一努力。
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Bill Clinton sits down for high-stakes House Oversight Epstein probe grilling | Fox News
By [Elizabeth Elkind][Fox News]
Published February 27, 2026 6:00am EST
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Former President [Bill Clinton] will testify to the House Oversight Committee in a high-stakes deposition for the committee’s probe into Jeffrey Epstein on Friday.
The closed-door meeting is expected to take place at 11 a.m. at the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center in Westchester County, N.Y.
Chappaqua has been the Clintons’ primary residence since they left the White House at the end of the former president’s tenure.
Republicans have been eager to question Bill Clinton about his ties to Epstein for months as the committee has gone back and forth with his lawyers about terms of the interview.
Former President Bill Clinton speaks onstage in New York City on Dec. 4, 2024.(Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images)
Both Democrats and Republicans are expected to grill Clinton, as well as committee staff on both sides.
His sitdown comes a day after his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, appeared before the panel for her own lengthy deposition in the Epstein probe.
However, House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., told reporters on Thursday that he anticipated Bill Clinton’s deposition would be “even longer” than his wife’s.
[BILL, HILLARY CLINTON TO BE DEPOSED IN NEW YORK FOR HOUSE OVERSIGHT EPSTEIN PROBE]
He also stressed Thursday that neither of the Clintons are being accused of wrongdoing tied to Epstein.
“No one’s accusing, at this moment, the Clintons of any wrongdoing. They’re going to have due process,” Comer said. “But we have a lot of questions, and the purpose of the whole investigation is to try to understand many things about Epstein.”
Both depositions will be released on video sometime later.
Hillary Clinton told lawmakers in her opening statement that she could not recall any contact with Epstein, nor did she have any more information for the committee past what she sent in a Jan. 13 statement.
She also criticized the probe’s attention on her as a “fishing expedition” and accused Republicans of trying to use her to pull attention from Trump.
“A committee endeavoring to stop human trafficking would seek to understand what specific steps are needed to fix a system that allowed Epstein to get away with his crimes in 2008,” she told the panel, according to her opening remarks.
[REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: CLINTONS CALL FOR OPEN EPSTEIN FILES HEARING AFTER MONTHS OF DEFYING SUBPOENAS]
“But that’s not happening. Instead, you have compelled me to testify, fully aware that I have no knowledge that would assist your investigation, in order to distract attention from President Trump’s actions and to cover them up despite legitimate calls for answers.”
Unlike his wife, however, Bill Clinton had a well-documented relationship with Epstein before his federal probes related to prostitution of minors and sex trafficking.
Former President Bill Clinton was seen in photos with Jeffrey Epstein as part of a DOJ Epstein files release on Dec. 19, 2025.(Department of Justice)
Bill Clinton’s name and photo appear numerous times in documents released by the federal government on Epstein, and flight records show he did ride Epstein’s plane.
But neither he nor Hillary Clinton have been implicated in Epstein’s crimes.
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The committee has also interviewed two former Trump administration officials, ex-Attorney General Bill Barr and ex-Labor Secretary Alex Acosta.
Their testimonies come weeks after the House nearly voted on holding both Clintons in contempt of Congress for defying Comer’s subpoena. House leaders dropped the effort after the Clintons said they would comply.
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