How Bill and Hillary Clinton are preparing for their landmark depositions about Jeffrey Epstein

[Miles Archer]

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How Bill and Hillary Clinton are preparing for their landmark depositions about Jeffrey Epstein

https://archive.ph/gx2XQ#selection-2743.7-2743.102

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/25/politics/how-bill-hillary-clinton-are-preparing-depositions-jeffrey-epstein

For the Clintons, the depositions this week mark a stunning reversal. After months of vigorously fighting to avoid testifying in what they denounced as a Republican plot against them, they agreed to comply only after the House was moving toward a bipartisan vote to hold them in criminal contempt of Congress.

The Clintons are expected to be joined by their lawyers, David Kendall and Cheryl Mills, who have been working through painstaking details of what areas could be covered during questioning. It was unclear who else from the Clinton team would join them at their respective depositions, officials said.

The depositions are scheduled to take place in Chappaqua, New York, where the Clintons live. Hillary Clinton will appear on Thursday and Bill Clinton on Friday. The location for the testimony was negotiated between Kendall and Rep. James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, in hopes of avoiding the indignity and precedent-setting move of summoning a former president to Capitol Hill for questioning.

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To prepare, the Clintons have been hunkering down — at times together, at times separately — to refresh their memories about the Epstein years, but even more to defend themselves and plan lines of attack against potentially hostile questioners. Republicans have sought to make the Clintons a package deal, but their separate depositions underscore the potentially vast differences between any information the two could offer to the committee.

[redstatebluegirl]

1. How are Orange Man and Malaria preparing for their depositions?

Oh, that's right, different rules for them.

[multigraincracker]

2. Every answer should be

Just release the unredacted files

[newdeal2]

3. They should bring up that time they invited Trump and Melania to a wedding

Say they know that’s one Epstein connection that Congress should investigate.

[orleans]

4. is it going to be on camera or made public? it doesn't appear like it will be nt

[Jersey Devil]

5. Alright, question Bill, but Hillary?

WTF! Hillary probably wouldn't know Epstein if she tripped over him.

[ScratchCat]

7. Here's how it will go

They will ask Hillary about Bill and girls connected to Epstein. When she doesn't give them the answer they want, they will make a referral to DOJ for perjury.

Its that simple. If you don't see this, then you haven't been paying attention. I mean, just two weeks ago, someone took a bogus case to a grand jury against six sitting US Senators and Representatives when they knew that no crime had been committed. And no reasonable person could conclude that James Comey or Jerome Powell perjured themselves in front of Congress but we know what's happening there with them.

[ScratchCat]

6. Let me express again that I am disappointed here

There was no reason for the reversal.

James Comer solicited two right wing-leaning law firms who both agreed that no court would uphold the subpoenas as lawful. This is based upon the fact that the committee withdrew four subpoenas after the individuals gave written statements as well as the lack of an actual legislative purpose of the hearing.

I hope they both give opening statements and then basically refuse to answer any questions.

Because I can almost assure you that otherwise, that by next Friday at the latest, James Comer will have made a recommendation to DOJ for perjury charges against one or both and Bondi will immediately open an investigation. They will claim that the answers given were "inconsistent" with prior statements or statements given by others. They will then somehow tie it to The Clinton Foundation and announce a fraud investigation against the entity. This ENTIRE episode is to try to shift the focus from Trump to the Clintons because of all the Republicans they have lost on the Epstein mess.

I just don't see how this works out well for Bill and Hillary. The letter they released saying why they were not going to give interviews was excellent. Backing down looks beyond weak.

[Bettie]

8. Which Democrats were planning to vote

to hold them in contempt of congress? Seriously.