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华盛顿 — 前总统比尔·克林顿将于周五前往纽约出席众议院监督委员会的闭门听证会，这是其对定罪性犯罪者杰弗里·爱泼斯坦调查的一部分，标志着首位前总统首次被传票传唤至国会作证。
此次闭门陈述是肯塔基州共和党众议员、众议院监督委员会主席詹姆斯·科默的胜利。科默在长达数月的斗争中战胜了比尔·克林顿和前国务卿希拉里·克林顿，后者曾誓言抵制传唤。但在委员会以两党投票建议以刑事藐视国会罪传讯这对夫妇后，克林顿夫妇最终让步。
比尔·克林顿的出现是在希拉里·克林顿周四与委员会进行数小时证词之后。共和党人表示，希拉里·克林顿多次表示，对她提出的一些问题本应直接向她丈夫提出。
“她十几次说‘我不知道，你得问我丈夫’，”科默周四表示。
前总统曾出现在近几个月公布的与爱泼斯坦的合影中，且几十年前与爱泼斯坦有过几次旅行，但并未被指控有任何不当行为。
在上个月提交给委员会的宣誓声明中，比尔·克林顿称，2002年至2003年间，爱泼斯坦曾提供其私人飞机，为克林顿基金会的慈善工作提供支持。他否认曾访问过爱泼斯坦在美属维尔京群岛的私人岛屿（大量爱泼斯坦所谓犯罪行为发生于此），并坚称自2019年爱泼斯坦被捕前已超过十年未与其联系。
“尽管爱泼斯坦先生可能出席了我八年任期内的数百次白宫活动或招待会，并与我合影——就像与数万名其他人合影一样，但我不记得曾与爱泼斯坦先生会面或有任何具体互动，”比尔·克林顿在声明中表示。
前总统也不记得何时认识了定罪的爱泼斯坦同伙吉斯莱恩·麦克斯韦，以及与她的互动，但表示她后来与一位共同朋友恋爱。
“需要明确的是，我对爱泼斯坦先生或麦克斯韦女士的犯罪活动一无所知，”声明称，“无论他们是否曾有过任何意图，我都没有采取任何行动来帮助他们逃避任何形式的审查。”
在周四的证词中，希拉里·克林顿重申，她对爱泼斯坦或麦克斯韦的犯罪活动一无所知。当被记者问及是否确信丈夫也不知道爱泼斯坦的犯罪行为时，希拉里·克林顿回答：“我确信。”
“他与爱泼斯坦的关系联系在其犯罪活动曝光前数年就已终止，”她说。
委员会最高民主党人、加利福尼亚州众议员罗伯特·加西亚周四下午在希拉里·克林顿作证期间表示，她“回答了所有问题”。共和党人在当日结束后也表示，她回答了所有人的问题。
在比尔·克林顿作证前，加西亚称委员会“已就与总统及前总统对话确立了新先例”，并要求总统特朗普“立即”被传唤至委员会，就其与爱泼斯坦的关联作证。
司法部公布的爱泼斯坦文件中，特朗普的名字出现数千次。他否认有任何不当行为。
但科默称，特朗普已回答了媒体关于其与爱泼斯坦关系的数百甚至数千个问题。
“总统特朗普已回答了你们所有人关于爱泼斯坦的数百甚至数千个问题，我认为他在公开文件方面非常透明，”科默周四对记者表示。
总统对媒体的回答不受誓言约束。特朗普曾称公布爱泼斯坦文件是“骗局”，但在民主党和少数共和党人迫使司法部公开文件后，他最终表示支持。
过去，前总统从未被成功强制传唤至国会作证，但几位前总统曾自愿回答委员会问题，包括1983年的杰拉尔德·福特、1955年的哈里·杜鲁门和威廉·霍华德·塔夫脱（共作证十余次）。现任总统也有自愿出席听证会的先例。
希拉里·克林顿就爱泼斯坦调查的证词仍在继续
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Bill Clinton to testify today in House committee’s Epstein investigation
February 27, 2026 / 6:00 AM EST / CBS News
Washington — Former President Bill Clinton will appear before the House Oversight Committee in New York on Friday as part of its investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, marking the first time a former president has been compelled to testify to Congress under subpoena.
The closed-door deposition is a victory for Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee, who won the monthslong battle against Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who had vowed to fight the effort. But the Clintons ultimately relented after a bipartisan vote in the committee to recommend holding the couple in criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to testify.
Bill Clinton’s appearance comes a day after Hillary Clinton spent hours with the committee. According to Republicans, Hillary Clinton repeatedly said some of the questions asked of her should instead be directed toward her husband.
“The number of times that she said, ‘I don’t know. You’ll have to ask my husband,’ was was more than a dozen,” Comer said Thursday.
The former president has appeared in photos with Epstein that have been released in recent months and took a handful of trips with him decades ago, but has not been accused of any wrongdoing.
In a sworn declaration submitted to the committee last month, Bill Clinton said Epstein offered his private plane to the former president, his staff and his Secret Service detail in support of the Clinton Foundation’s philanthropic work between 2002 and 2003. He denied ever visiting Epstein’s private island in the Virgin Islands, where a number of the late financier’s alleged crimes occurred, and maintained that he had not been in contact with Epstein for more than a decade before his 2019 arrest.
“While Mr. Epstein may very well have attended any of the many hundreds of White House events or receptions during my eight years in office and been photographed with me as were tens of thousands of individuals, I do not recall encountering Mr. Epstein, or any specific interactions with him, while in office,” Bill Clinton said in the declaration.
The former president also did not recall when he met convicted Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell or his interactions with her, but said she later was in a relationship with a mutual friend.
“To be clear, I had no idea of Mr. Epstein’s or Ms. Maxwell’s criminal activities,” the declaration said. “And, irrespective of any intent either may have ever had, I did not take any action for the purpose of helping them to avoid any type of scrutiny.”
In her deposition Thursday, Hillary Clinton reiterated that she had no knowledge of Epstein or Maxwell’s crimes. When asked by reporters after the deposition whether she was confident her husband also had no knowledge of Epstein’s crimes, Hillary Clinton responded, “I am.”
“The chronology of the connection that he had with Epstein ended years, several years before anything about Epstein’s criminal activities came to light,” she said.
Rep. Robert Garcia of California, the top Democrat on the panel, said Thursday afternoon as the deposition was ongoing that Hillary Clinton was “answering all the questions.” Republicans also said after the day ended that she answered everyone’s questions.
Ahead of Bill Clinton’s testimony, Garcia said the committee had “now set a new precedent about talking to presidents and former presidents.” He demanded that President Trump be “immediately” asked to appear before the committee to testify about his own connections with Epstein.
Mr. Trump’s name appears thousands of times in the Epstein files released by the Justice Department. He has denied any wrongdoing.
But Comer said Mr. Trump has already answered questions from the press about his relationship with Epstein.
“President Trump has answered hundreds, if not thousands of questions from you all about Epstein, and I think he’s been very transparent in releasing the documents,” Comer told reporters Thursday.
The president’s answers to the press are not under oath. Mr. Trump, who called the effort to release the Epstein files a “hoax,” eventually supported their release after Democrats and a few Republicans forced a vote on compelling the Justice Department to make them public.
Former presidents have not successfully been compelled to testify before Congress in the past. But several have voluntarily answered questions from committees, including Presidents Gerald Ford in 1983, Harry Truman in 1955 and William Howard Taft a dozen times. Several sitting presidents have also appeared voluntarily.
Hillary Clinton deposition on Epstein ongoing
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