作者：伊丽莎白·埃尔金德，福克斯新闻 | 发布时间：2026年2月27日 美国东部时间上午11:55
前总统比尔·克林顿在纽约州查帕奎克开始闭门证词时告诉众议院监督委员会，他对杰弗里·爱泼斯坦的罪行”一无所知”。
克林顿因参与两党对这位已故金融家和性交易贩子的调查而备受关注，预计将进行一整天的询问，内容涉及他与爱泼斯坦及其同谋吉斯莱恩·麦克斯韦的关系。
“现在，我要告诉你们我会说什么。首先，我对爱泼斯坦犯下的罪行一无所知。无论你们给我看多少照片，归根结底，有两件事比你们对那些20年前照片的解读更重要，”根据他准备好的开场白，克林顿说道。
“我知道我看到了什么，更重要的是，我知道我没有看到什么。我知道我做了什么，更重要的是，我知道我没有做错什么。我什么都没看到，也没有做错任何事。”
克林顿还警告议员们：”你们会经常听到我说我不记得了，”但他表示，被问及问题时不会猜测。
“这可能令人不满意，但我不会说我不确定的事情。这都是很久以前的事了，我受誓言约束，不会猜测或推测。这不仅是为了我自己，因为24年后我来当侦探也帮不了你们，”克林顿说。
与此同时，众议院监督委员会主席、肯塔基州共和党人詹姆斯·科默表示，在证词开始前，他有大量问题要向前总统询问。
“我认为大家都看到司法部(DOJ)以及爱泼斯坦遗产管理人发布了大量照片。还有很多包含克林顿总统的电子邮件往来，”科默在被问及需要了解什么时说道。
“希拉里·克林顿秘书昨天证实：在比尔·克林顿总统任期内，杰弗里·爱泼斯坦曾17次出入白宫。我们知道比尔·克林顿至少乘坐过爱泼斯坦的飞机27次。所以这些都是我们要问的问题。”
但克林顿在开场白中表示，如果他知道飞机上发生了非法行为，他不会乘坐这架飞机。
“作为一个在家庭暴力环境中长大的人，如果我有任何迹象表明他在做什么，我不仅不会乘坐他的飞机——我会亲自揭发他，并呼吁为他的罪行伸张正义，而不是搞和解协议，”克林顿说。
“但即使事后回想一切都很清楚，我也没有看到任何让我犹豫的事情。我们之所以在这里，是因为他长期以来把一切都隐藏得很好，等到2008年他认罪时，我早已不再与他来往。”
科默还表示，问题将涉及爱泼斯坦以及克林顿与吉斯莱恩·麦克斯韦的关系，麦克斯韦是这位已故金融家的同谋，因联邦性交易指控被定罪，目前正在德克萨斯州服刑。
科默告诉记者，在周四前国务卿希拉里·克林顿接受委员会闭门证词后，他给克林顿准备的问题清单”增加了”。
“希拉里夫人今天把很多问题都推给了她丈夫。至少有十几处她表示，’你得问我丈夫，我无法回答’，”主席说。
他表示，许多这些推诿都与克林顿夫妇的非营利组织工作有关。
“司法部发布的证据中有太多这样的例子，在往来信件中爱泼斯坦吹嘘他最初是如何参与建立克林顿全球倡议(Clinton Global Initiative)和克林顿基金会的，”他说。
“我们昨天向希拉里秘书提出了这些问题，但她一直说她当时在参议院。她没有关注这件事。’你得问我丈夫。’所以昨天关于克林顿全球倡议的很多问题都没有得到回答，因为希拉里夫人推给了她丈夫。”
前总统在开场白中也为妻子辩护，告诉议员们”在开始之前，我必须个人说几句”。
“是你们让希拉里来的。她和杰弗里·爱泼斯坦毫无关系。一点关系都没有。她甚至不记得见过他，”克林顿说。”她既没有和他一起旅行，也没有访问过他的任何一处房产。无论你们传召10个人还是10000人，包括她，都是不对的。”
就像希拉里·克林顿在开场白中所说，他说爱泼斯坦的受害者既需要”正义”也需要”治愈”，告诉议员们他是为了她们才出现在委员会面前的。
唐纳德·特朗普总统周五也被问及克林顿的证词，他告诉记者：”我不喜欢看到他被质问。”
一位熟悉计划的人士告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，克林顿的证词于周五上午11点刚过几分钟开始。
科默在周四希拉里·克林顿接受询问后告诉记者，他预计周五的证词”会更长”。
她的证词从开始到结束持续了大约六个小时，中间有短暂的午餐休息。
克林顿夫妇都没有被指控与爱泼斯坦的罪行有关。但前总统的名字在司法部和众议院监督委员会发布的与爱泼斯坦调查相关的文件中多次出现。
与他妻子的证词一样，克林顿将在闭门会议中宣誓作证。
采访将被转录，视频可能在结束后一周内发布。
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6390069499112
Bill Clinton says he had ‘no idea’ of Epstein’s crimes during closed-door deposition
By Elizabeth Elkind, Fox News | Published February 27, 2026 11:55am EST
Former President Bill Clinton is telling the House Oversight Committee that he had “no idea” of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes as his deposition kicks off in Chappaqua, New York.
Clinton is in the hot seat for the committee’s bipartisan investigation into the late financier and sex trafficker for what is expected to be an all-day session of questions into his relationship with Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.
“Now, let me say what you’re going to hear from me. First, I had no idea of the crimes Epstein was committing. No matter how many photos you show me, I have two things that, at the end of the day, matter more than your interpretation of those 20-year-old photos,” Clinton said, according to his prepared opening remarks.
“I know what I saw and more importantly, what I didn’t see. I know what I did and more importantly, what I didn’t do. I saw nothing and I did nothing wrong.”
Clinton also warned lawmakers, “You’ll often hear me say that I don’t recall,” but said he would not speculate when asked questions.
“That might be unsatisfying, but I’m not going to say something I’m not sure of. This was all a long time ago, and I’m bound by my oath not to speculate or to guess. This is not merely for my benefit, but because it doesn’t help you for me to play detective 24 years later,” Clinton said.
Meanwhile, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., suggested he had an abundance of questions for the former president ahead of the deposition.
“I think everyone’s seen that there are a lot of photos that have been released by the Department of Justice (DOJ) as well as the Epstein estate. There are a lot of email correspondence that included President Clinton,” Comer said when asked what he needed to hear.
“Secretary Clinton confirmed this yesterday: Jeffrey Epstein was in the White House 17 times while Bill Clinton was president. We know that Bill Clinton flew on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane at least 27 times. So those are questions that we’re going to ask.”
But Clinton said in his opening remarks that he would not have ridden on the plane if he knew the illicit things that took place there.
“As someone who grew up in a home with domestic abuse, not only would I have not flown on his plane if I had any inkling of what he was doing — I would have turned him in myself and led the call for justice for his crimes, not sweetheart deals,” Clinton said.
“But even with 20/20 hindsight, I saw nothing that ever gave me pause. We are only here because he hid it from everyone so well for so long, and by the time it came to light with his 2008 guilty plea, I had long stopped associating with him.”
Comer also said questions would pertain to Epstein and to Clinton’s relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell, the late financier’s accomplice who is serving out a prison term in Texas after being convicted on federal sex trafficking charges.
Comer told reporters that his list of questions for Clinton had “increased” in the wake of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s own deposition before the committee on Thursday.
“Mrs. Clinton deferred a lot of questions to her husband today. There were at least a dozen times when she said, ‘You’ll have to ask my husband that. I can’t answer that,’” the chairman said.
He said that many of those deferrals had to do with the Clintons’ nonprofit work.
“There are so many examples in the evidence the Department of Justice released, in correspondence where Epstein bragged about how involved he was initially in setting up the Clinton Global Initiative and the Clinton Foundation,” he said.
“We asked those questions to Secretary Clinton yesterday, and she kept saying she was in the Senate at that time. She wasn’t focused on it. ‘You’ll have to ask my husband.’ So a lot of the Clinton Global Initiative questions yesterday went unanswered because Mrs. Clinton deferred to her husband.”
The former president defended his wife during his opening statement as well, telling lawmakers that “before we start, I have to get personal.”
“You made Hillary come in. She had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. Nothing. She has no memory of even meeting him,” Clinton said. “She neither traveled with him nor visited any of his properties. Whether you subpoenaed 10 people or 10,000, including her, was simply not right.”
Like Hillary Clinton did in her opening remarks, he said Epstein’s victims deserve both “justice” and “healing,” telling lawmakers that it was for them that he was appearing before the committee.
President Donald Trump was also asked about Clinton’s testimony on Friday and told reporters, “I don’t like seeing him deposed.”
Clinton’s deposition began a few minutes after 11 a.m. on Friday, a person familiar with planning told Fox News Digital.
Comer told reporters on Thursday after Hillary Clinton’s sitdown that he expected the ordeal to be “even longer” on Friday.
Her deposition lasted roughly six hours from start to finish, with a brief lunch break in between.
Neither of the Clintons has been accused of anything related to Epstein’s crimes. But the former president’s name appears multiple times in documents released by the DOJ and the House Oversight Committee pertaining to the investigation into Epstein.
Like his wife’s testimony, Clinton will speak to the committee behind closed doors and under oath.
The interview will be transcribed, with a video likely to be released within a week of its conclusion.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6390069499112
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