众议员安娜·波琳娜·卢娜在证词结束后暗示杰弗里·爱泼斯坦进行了“蜜罐行动”
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 | 更新时间：2026年2月27日 美国东部时间下午6:27
前总统比尔·克林顿就日前曝光的那张在按摩浴缸中的著名照片首次发声。该照片是美国司法部（DOJ）公布的数百万页爱泼斯坦相关文件中的内容之一。
在周五闭门出席众议院监督委员会作证期间，克林顿被问及这张照片（照片显示他与一名身份信息被删除的女子同处按摩浴缸）。
多位被匿名允许自由发言的消息人士向福克斯新闻数字版证实，克林顿在回应询问时表示自己不认识该女子，且从未与她发生过性关系。
一位消息人士称，克林顿暗示照片实际上拍摄于一家公共酒店的泳池，且当时无人对此提出质疑或追究。
前总统比尔·克林顿在新公布的爱泼斯坦相关文件中被拍到出现在按摩浴缸里。（美国司法部）
证词持续约六小时后结束，共和党人称赞前总统坦诚回应了问题。
克林顿面临的是两党联合调查——调查对象是已故金融家、性人贩子以及他的同谋吉斯林·麦克斯韦。预计该调查将一整天持续询问克林顿与其关系。
纽约州共和党众议员、监督委员会成员尼克·朗沃西表示，克林顿表现得“相当坦诚，可能比他的律师期望的更坦诚”，并赞扬了两党议员在此次闭门会面所采取的态度。
与此同时，佛罗里达州共和党众议员安娜·波琳娜·卢娜暗示爱泼斯坦是一名情报资产，其运营的“蜜罐行动”可能针对克林顿夫妇。
“我确实相信，也确定委员会中的一些人也相信，杰弗里·爱泼斯坦是一名情报资产，并且正在开展某种形式的‘蜜罐行动’，”卢娜表示，“我确信克林顿总统以及希拉里国务卿都可能是该行动的目标，但我们先说到这里。”
克林顿在开场陈述中表示：“我完全不知道爱泼斯坦所犯的罪行。无论你们给我看多少照片，最终对我来说，比你们看待这些20年前照片的解读更重要的两件事是——我知道我看到了什么，以及更重要的是，我知道我没有看到什么；我知道我做了什么，更重要的是，我知道我没有做过什么。我什么都没看到，也没有做错任何事。”
他还警告议员：“你们经常会听到我说‘我不记得了’，但在被询问时，我不会进行猜测。”
“这可能会令人不满意，但我不会说那些我不确定的事情。这都发生在很久以前，我受宣誓约束，不会猜测或臆断。这不仅是为了我自己，因为24年后我再扮演侦探，对你们也没有帮助。”
与此同时，肯塔基州共和党人、监督委员会主席詹姆斯·科默表示，在证词前他有大量问题要向这位前总统提出。
2023年9月18日，前总统比尔·克林顿在纽约市舞台上发言。（Noam Galai/Getty Images for Clinton Global Initiative）
“我认为每个人都看到了司法部以及爱泼斯坦遗产中公布的大量照片，还有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表示，“希拉里秘书昨日证实，在克林顿担任总统期间，爱泼斯坦曾17次进入白宫。我们知道克林顿至少乘坐过爱泼斯坦的飞机27次。这些都是我们将要提出的问题。”
但克林顿在开场陈述中表示，如果知晓飞机上发生的非法行为，他绝不会乘坐。
“作为一名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，而不是达成‘甜蜜交易’。”
“但即使是事后诸葛亮，我也没有发现任何让我犹豫的迹象。我们现在之所以在此，是因为他长期以来把事情隐藏得太好。当2008年他认罪时，我早已不再与他来往。”
科默还表示，问题还将涉及爱泼斯坦以及克林顿与吉斯林·麦克斯韦的关系——这位已故金融家的同谋在因联邦性交易指控定罪后，目前正在德克萨斯州服刑。
科默向记者透露，在周四前国务卿希拉里·克林顿闭门证言后，对克林顿的提问清单“增加了”。
“希拉里夫人当日有很多问题推脱给她的丈夫：‘你得去问我的丈夫，我不能回答。’至少有十二次，”科默主席表示，“很多这些推脱都与克林顿夫妇的非营利组织工作有关。”
“司法部公布的证据中有大量这样的例子：爱泼斯坦吹嘘自己最初如何参与建立克林顿全球倡议和克林顿基金会。”
“我们昨日向希拉里国务卿提出了这些问题，但她总是说她当时在参议院，没有关注这些事。‘你得去问我的丈夫。’因此，昨日关于克林顿全球倡议的诸多问题都未得到回答，因为希拉里夫人将其推给了丈夫。”
克林顿在开场陈述中也为妻子辩护：“在我们开始之前，我必须说一些个人化的话。”
“你们让希拉里来作证，她与爱泼斯坦毫无关系，一点关系都没有。她甚至不记得见过他。她既没有与他同行，也没有访问过他的任何房产。无论你们传召10个人还是10000个人，包括她，这都是不合适的。”
当被问及克林顿的证词时，现任总统唐纳德·特朗普表示：“我不喜欢看到他被质问。”
克林顿的证词于周五上午11点过后几分钟开始，一位熟悉日程安排的人士向福克斯新闻数字版透露。
科默在证词结束时称这是“非常有成效的证词”，克林顿“回答了每个问题，或试图回答每个问题”。
“我们向希拉里和比尔·克林顿询问了我们作为委员会下一步应该采取什么行动，因为我们真诚地希望向美国民众揭示真相并追究某些不良行为者的责任，”科默说。
2026年2月26日，前美国国务卿希拉里·克林顿在纽约州查帕奎克表演艺术中心外对媒体发言。（Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images）
克林顿夫妇均未被指控与爱泼斯坦犯罪有任何关联，但前总统的名字在司法部和众议院监督委员会公布的爱泼斯坦调查相关文件中多次出现。
与希拉里·克林顿的证词相同，克林顿也将闭门接受委员会宣誓询问。
采访内容将被转录，视频可能在证词结束后一周内公布。
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Bill Clinton says he didn’t know woman in infamous jacuzzi photo during closed-door Epstein testimony
Rep Anna Paulina Luna suggested after the deposition ended that Jeffrey Epstein ran a ‘honeypot operation’
By Elizabeth Elkind
Fox News
Published February 27, 2026 11:55am EST | Updated February 27, 2026 6:27pm EST
Former President Bill Clinton broke his silence on the now-infamous photo of himself in a hot tub that was among the millions of pages in the Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) Jeffrey Epstein files release.
Clinton was asked about the photo, which appears to show him and a woman whose identity has been redacted, during his closed-door deposition before the House Oversight Committee on Friday.
He said in response to questioning that he did not know who the woman was and that he did not have sex with her, multiple people who were granted anonymity to speak freely confirmed to Fox News Digital.
One of the sources said Clinton intimated that the photo depicted a public hotel pool and that no one pushed back or questioned it.
Former President Bill Clinton was pictured in a hot tub in the newly released Epstein files.(Department of Justice)
The deposition concluded after roughly six hours, with Republicans praising the former president for being forthcoming with his answers.
Clinton was 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.
Republican Oversight Committee member Rep. Nick Langworthy, R-N.Y., said Clinton had been “quite candid, probably more candid than his attorneys were comfortable with” and lauded the bipartisan approach lawmakers took to the sitdown.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., meanwhile, floated that she believed Epstein was an intelligence asset running an operation targeting both Clintons.
“I do believe, and I’m sure some people on this committee also believe, that Jeffrey Epstein was an intelligence asset and running some form of a honeypot operation,” Luna said. “I do believe that President Clinton, as well as the Secretary, were potentially targets of that operation, and we will leave it at that.”
In his opening statement this morning, Clinton told lawmakers that he had “no idea” of Epstein’s crimes.
“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.
Former President Bill Clinton speaks onstage in New York City on Sept. 18, 2023.(Noam Galai/Getty Images for Clinton Global Initiative)
“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.
Rep. James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky and chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, center, joined by Republican members of the House Oversight Committee, speaks to members of the media while arriving for a closed-door deposition with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center in Chappaqua, N.Y., on Feb. 26, 2026.(Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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.”
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 said at the meeting’s conclusion that it was a “very productive deposition” and said Clinton “answered every question, or attempted to answer every question.”
“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,” Comer said.
Hillary Clinton, former U.S. Secretary of State, speaks to members of the media outside the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center in Chappaqua, N.Y., Feb. 26, 2026.(Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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.
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