前总统比尔·克林顿将于周五接受证词询问
作者：伊丽莎白·埃尔金德
福克斯新闻
发布时间：2026年2月26日 美国东部时间下午7:01
前国务卿希拉里·克林顿在众议院监督委员会对她进行了大约六个小时的闭门质询后，向记者发表了讲话。
NEW 你现在可以收听福克斯新闻文章了！
收听本文
4分钟
前国务卿希拉里·克林顿在周四晚上众议院监督委员会对爱泼斯坦案的调查中接受了大约六个小时的严厉质询后，立即对共和党人展开了批评。
克林顿告诉记者，在她批评共和党人举行闭门证词听证会而非公开听证会之后，她”反复地、确实是一遍又一遍地”回答了问题。
不过，她说如果有公开听证会，她不会再次作证，并告诉记者：”他们有机会在公开场合进行，我希望他们这样做了。我认为他们做出了错误的决定，回避公开进行。
“最后，事情变得相当不寻常，因为我开始被问及不明飞行物（UFO）和一系列关于披萨门的问题，披萨门是互联网上传播的最恶毒、最虚假的阴谋论之一，是一名议员向我提问的基础，”克林顿说。
她还抨击共和党议员没有亲自出席前维多利亚的秘密首席执行官莱斯利·韦克斯纳的证词询问。
然而，克林顿确实赞扬了众议院监督委员会主席、肯塔基州共和党人詹姆斯·科默，”因为他提出了一系列重要问题，我对调查的性质以及我认为应该探索的领域做出了回应。”
“所以，我对此表示赞赏。我希望真相大白。这是一个令人安心的方式来结束一个非常漫长、重复的证词询问，”克林顿说。
她还重申了她开场陈述中的评论，即她不认识爱泼斯坦，并且只把吉斯莱恩·麦克斯韦”当作熟人认识”。
然而，当被问及为何麦克斯韦被邀请参加女儿切尔西·克林顿的婚礼时，克林顿说她是”某位受邀者的+1（舞伴）”。
克林顿的证词询问于上午11点开始，下午5点在她的家乡纽约州查帕奎结束。
科默事后表示，克林顿在”富有成效”的证词询问中”回答了我们大部分问题”，但他说共和党人最终”对他们收集到的信息并不满意”。
“她说’我不知道，你得问我丈夫’的次数超过了十几次，”科默说。
前总统比尔·克林顿定于周五闭门作证，科默称这将是”更长时间”的证词询问。
克林顿夫妇屈服：科默称比尔和希拉里将在爱泼斯坦调查中作证
克林顿夫妇均未被牵连与爱泼斯坦或麦克斯韦有关的任何不当行为，但众所周知，在联邦调查爱泼斯坦犯罪行为曝光之前，比尔·克林顿与这位已故金融家和性交易贩子有过关系。
希拉里·克林顿表示，这段关系”在爱泼斯坦犯罪活动曝光前几年，也就是几年前就结束了”。
南卡罗来纳州共和党众议员威廉·蒂蒙斯告诉福克斯新闻数字版，看到希拉里·克林顿”固执且对这个过程有点恼怒”令人”沮丧”。
“她对一切都有借口。但当你有一系列参与和关联的模式时，美国人民应该得到答案，”蒂蒙斯说。
“老实说，我倾向于认为她相当可信，但我的意思是，这一切明天都会随着[克林顿总统]达到高潮，他有很多非常棘手的问题要回答。我认为美国人民不会喜欢他的答案。”
证词询问有时气氛紧张，克林顿在指控共和党人违反规则时暗示了这种紧张局势，当时科罗拉多州共和党众议员劳伦·博伯特显然与一位右翼影响者分享了证词室内部的照片。
“我们一开始有点挑战，因为我们根据这是他们要求的闭门听证会这一事实商定了规则。其中一名议员违反了这一规则，这非常令人不安，因为这表明他们可能会违反我们其他的协议，”克林顿说。
“所以，我们不得不暂停听证会一段时间，直到我们能够确保未来不会有规则被打破。”
不过值得注意的是，民主党人也泄露了房间内的信息，但没有受到任何公开批评。《纽约时报》一名记者当天早些时候在X（原推特）上发布了关于证词询问的报道，同时引用了”一名民主党成员在房间内”的消息。
比尔·克林顿的证词询问预计将于周五上午11点在查帕奎表演艺术中心开始。
伊丽莎白·埃尔金德是福克斯新闻数字版的政治记者，负责报道众议院。此前曾在《每日邮报》和哥伦比亚广播公司新闻网发表过数字署名文章。
在Twitter上关注@liz_elkind，或发送提示至elizabeth.elkind@fox.com
Hillary Clinton comes out swinging after GOP grilled her during marathon Epstein deposition
Former President Bill Clinton will be deposed Friday
By Elizabeth Elkind
Fox News
Published February 26, 2026 7:01pm EST
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke to reporters after spending roughly six hours being grilled behind closed doors by the House Oversight Committee.
NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles!
Listen to this article
4 min
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wasted no time criticizing Republicans after she emerged from a roughly six-hour grilling in the House Oversight Committee’s Jeffrey Epstein probe Thursday evening.
Clinton told reporters she answered questions “repetitively, literally over and over again” after blasting Republicans for holding a closed-door deposition instead of a public hearing.
She said, however, that she would not testify again if there was a public hearing, telling reporters, “They had a chance to do it in public, and I wish they had done it in public. And I think they’re making the wrong decision, avoiding doing it in public.
“It then got, at the end, quite unusual because I started being asked about UFOs and a series of questions about Pizzagate, one of the most vile, bogus conspiracy theories that was propagated on the internet that was serving as the basis of a member’s questions to me,” Clinton 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., Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026.(Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
She also knocked Republican lawmakers for not attending the deposition of former Victoria’s Secret CEO Leslie Wexner in person.
Clinton did save praise for House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., however, “for raising a series of significant questions that I responded to about the nature of the investigation and the areas that I thought should be explored.”
“So, I appreciated that. I want to see the truth come out. So, that was a reassuring way to end a very long, repetitive, deposition,” Clinton said.
She also reiterated comments from her opening statement that she did not know Epstein and said she only knew Ghislaine Maxwell “as an acquaintance.”
When asked why Maxwell was invited to daughter Chelsea Clinton’s wedding, however, Clinton said she was a “plus-one of someone invited.”
Clinton’s deposition began in the 11 a.m. hour and wrapped in the 5 p.m. hour in her hometown of Chappaqua, New York.
Comer said afterward that Clinton “answered most of our questions” in a “productive” deposition but said Republicans ultimately “weren’t satisfied” with what they gleaned.
“The number of times that she said, ‘I don’t know, you’ll have to ask my husband,’ was more than a dozen,” Comer 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 of former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center in Chappaqua, N.Y., Feb. 26, 2026.(Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Former President Bill Clinton is slated to testify behind closed doors Friday for what Comer said would be an “even longer” deposition.
CLINTONS CAVE: COMER SAYS BILL AND HILLARY TO TESTIFY IN EPSTEIN PROBE
Neither Clinton is implicated in any wrongdoing related to Epstein or Maxwell, but Bill Clinton was known to have a relationship with the late financier and sex trafficker before the federal investigations into Epstein’s crimes came to light.
Hillary Clinton said that relationship “ended years, several years, before anything about Epstein’s criminal activities came to light.”
Rep. William Timmons, R-S.C., told Fox News Digital it was “frustrating” to see Hillary Clinton “obstinate and sort of annoyed at the process.”
“She had an excuse for everything. But when you’ve got a pattern of involvement and a pattern of association, the American people deserve answers,” Timmons said.
“Honestly, I tend to find her to be fairly credible, but I mean, all of this is going to culminate tomorrow with [President Clinton, and] he has a lot of really hard questions to answer. And I don’t think that the American people are going to like his answers.”
The deposition was tense at times, a tension Clinton alluded to when she accused Republicans of breaking the rules when Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., apparently shared a photo from inside the deposition room with a right-wing influencer.
“We had a bit of a challenge in the beginning because we agreed upon rules based on the fact it was going to be a closed hearing at their demand. And one of the members violated that rule, which was very upsetting because it suggested that they might violate other of our agreements,” Clinton said.
“So, we had to cease the hearing for a period of time until we could get assurances that no rules would be broken going forward.”
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP
It’s notable, however, that Democrats also leaked information from inside the room but did not get any public blowback. A New York Times reporter posted reporting about the deposition on X earlier in the day while citing a “Dem member in the room.”
Bill Clinton’s deposition is also expected to kick off in the 11 a.m. hour on Friday at the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center.
Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.
Follow on Twitter at @liz_elkind and send tips to elizabeth.elkind@fox.com