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President #BillClinton testifies in #House #Epstein investigation

Clinton is facing questions today from members of the #Republican-led House #Oversight Committee about his ties to #JeffreyEpstein, making him the first sitting or former president to testify before members of #Congress in more than 40 years.

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Trump administration live updates: Bill Clinton testifies in House Jeffrey Epstein investigation

Live updates: Bill Clinton to testify in House Jeffrey Epstein probe

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President #BillClinton is testifying Friday before members of #Congress who are investigating convicted sex offender Jeffrey #Epstein, answering for his connections to the disgraced financier from more than 2 decades ago.

“I saw nothing, & I did nothing wrong,” the former #Democratic president said in an opening statement he shared on social media at the outset of the deposition.

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It comes a day after Clinton’s wife, former Secretary of State #HillaryClinton, sat with lawmakers for her own deposition, where she told lawmakers that she had no knowledge of how #Epstein had sexually abused underage girls & had no recollection of even meeting him.

Neither #Clinton has been accused of any wrongdoing.

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Clinton’s remarks state that he is testifying “to offer what little I know so that it might prevent anything like this from ever happening again” & because “the girls & women whose lives Jeffrey Epstein destroyed deserve not only justice, but healing.”

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President #BillClinton said in his prepared opening remarks that his wife—the former secretary of state & First Lady—should never have been ensnared by the committee.

“Before we start, I have to get personal,” #Clinton said in his statement. “You made Hillary come in. She had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. Nothing. She has no memory of even meeting him. She neither traveled with him nor visited any of his properties.”

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President #BillClinton continued, “Whether you subpoenaed 10 people or 10,000, including her was simply not right.”

And he tells lawmakers that, just as he’s bound in sworn testimony, “each & every one of you owes nothing less than #truth & #accuracy to the American people.”

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“As someone who grew up in a home with #DomesticAbuse, not only would I not have flown on his plane if I had any inkling of what he was doing — I would have turned him in myself & led the call for #justice for his #crimes, not sweetheart deals,” #BillClinton said in his prepared opening statement.

“We are only here because he hid it from everyone so well for so long.”

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President #BillClinton said he will likely say “I don’t recall” a lot.

“That might be unsatisfying,” #Clinton said of his plans to answer some questions by saying he has no recollection. “But I’m not going to say something I’m not sure of. This was all a long time ago.”

Clinton adds that he is “bound by my oath not to speculate, or to guess” — a standard he says “is not merely for my benefit but because it doesn’t help you for me to play detective 24 years later.”

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Elsewhere in his prepared opening remarks, #BillClinton is more emphatic about his own actions.

“I know what I saw, & more importantly, what I didn’t see,” he says. “I know what I did, & more importantly, what I didn’t do.”

#Clinton is using his #Epstein testimony to give #Republicans a much needed #civics lesson.

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#BillClinton said in his prepared statement that “no person is above the #law, even presidents.” He agreed to testify, he adds, because, “I love my country.”

Bill & #HillaryClinton initially pushed back against subpoenas they called a #partisan stunt by #Republicans [yup]. They yielded but demanded proceedings be open to the public. Republicans refused.

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“The search for #truth & #justice,” #BillClinton told lawmakers, is more important than “the partisan urge to score points & create #spectacle.”

“#Democracy requires every person to play their part, & I hope that by being here today, we can bring ourselves a little further away from the brink & back to being a country where we can disagree with one another civilly,” he says, adding, “I’ll do my part, & I hope you’ll do yours.”

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