WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told U.S. House lawmakers on Thursday that she had no knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein’s or Ghislaine Maxwell’s crimes at the start of two days of depositions that will also include former President Bill Clinton.

“I had no idea about their criminal activities. I do not recall ever encountering Mr. Epstein,” Hillary Clinton said in an opening statement she shared on social media.

The closed-door depositions in the Clintons’ hometown of Chappaqua, a typically quiet hamlet north of New York City, come after months of tense back-and-forthbetween the former high-powered Democratic couple and the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee. It will be the first time that a former president has been forced to testify before Congress.

Yet the demand for a reckoning over Epstein’s abuse of underage girls has become a near-unstoppable force on Capitol Hill and beyond.

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        12 days ago

        A multi decade campaign from conservatives to manufacture a boogyman.

        I don’t give a shit about her but I offer 2 things:

        1: the same folks calling her a villain also said she ate babies in a pizza parlor…

        2: she once testified in front of congress AND on camera for like 11 hours straight. There was jack shit for anyone to charge her on from those 11 hours… no perjury, no leads nothing.

        Imagine any prominent republican doing the same…

        Nothing anyone has ever said has ever led to anything close to an indictment of her or Bill EVER.

        Maybe, just maybe the cultural fixation on “Clinton” is a convenient distraction from other folks who just so happen to be mentioned 10x more in the Epstein files…

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        13 days ago

        The fact that she’s an elite and her husband was extremely buddy-buddy with epstein for like a decade. She’s not an idiot, and certainly far smarter than Bill

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          Her husband has secret service following him since 1990s. If he was involved it would be kind of hard.

          I think more likely Epstein was just donating to him for political favors and that was it.

          If he was involved I want him in jail, but the very weak materials they released to distract from trump (including even public pictures that weren’t even related to Epstein - I’m talking about the one with Michael Jackson and Diane Ross that actually was from DNC fundraiser) makes me think there isn’t much on him.

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            11 days ago

            Flew on Lolita Express multiple times, deep financial ties with epstein, friends with epstein so much so that epstein had an oil painting of bill among other pictures in his homes, wrote “It’s reassuring isn’t it, to have lasted as long, across all the years of learning and knowing, adventures and [illegible word], and also to have your childlike curiosity, the drive to make a difference and the solace of friends.” to Epstein for his 50th Birthday, picture of Bill with a redactived victim on a plane, picture of Bill with a redacted victim in a pool, one of the victims says she saw Bill on the island, epstein pleaded the 5th when made to testify about his relationship with Clinton

            The Epstein class is along capital elite class boundaries, not partisan ones

            There’s also mutually assured pedophilic destruction, so it’s no surprise that all the predators suddenly ‘cannot recall’ when questioned. They’re all protecting each other.