{"id":405006,"date":"2026-02-03T04:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T04:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/405006\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T04:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T04:12:08","slug":"bill-and-hillary-clinton-agree-to-testify-on-epstein-as-vote-looms-to-hold-them-in-contempt-of-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/405006\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill and Hillary Clinton agree to testify on Epstein as vote looms to hold them in contempt of Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The House Oversight Committee, led by Republicans, approved the measure to hold the Clintons in contempt late last month, with the support of several Democrats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Monday evening, Clinton deputy chief of staff Angel Ure\u00f1a posted on X confirming the couple would appear before the panel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They negotiated in good faith,&#8221; Ure\u00f1a wrote in a tweet directed at the House Oversight Committee. &#8220;You did not. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They told you under oath what they know, but you don&#8217;t care. But the former President and former Secretary of State will be there. They look forward to setting a precedent that applies to everyone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both Clintons say they previously provided the committee with sworn statements and have already provided the &#8220;limited information&#8221; they had on Epstein.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The couple had dismissed the legal summonses as &#8220;nothing more than a ploy to attempt to embarrass political rivals, as President Trump has directed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bill Clinton has never been accused of wrongdoing by survivors of Epstein&#8217;s abuse, and has denied knowledge of his sex offending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The House Oversight Committee, led by Republicans, approved the measure to hold the Clintons in contempt late last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-405006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}