[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Bill Clinton has issued a blistering statement claiming that he 'did nothing wrong' with Jeffrey Epstein as he slammed Republicans for forcing Hillary to testify.
'I saw nothing, and I did nothing wrong,' Clinton told lawmakers at a historic closed-door deposition on Friday near his home in Chappaqua, New York.
The former president fumed at Republicans for dragging his wife to testify after Hillary on Thursday repeatedly told lawmakers she never met Epstein.
'Before we start, I have to get personal. You made Hillary come in. She had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. Nothing,' Clinton said. 'She has no memory of even meeting him. She neither traveled with him nor visited any of his properties. Whether you subpoenaed 10 people or 10,000, including her was simply not right.'
Clinton signaled that his answers regarding Epstein would echo a phrase synonymous with his scandal-filled presidency: 'I don't recall.'
'You'll often hear me say that I don't recall. That might be unsatisfying. But I'm not going to say something I'm not sure of,' he continued.
'This was all a long time ago. And I am bound by my oath not to speculate, or to guess. This is not merely for my benefit, but because it doesn't help you for me to play detective 24 years later.'
Lawmakers are grilling Clinton after evidence from the Epstein files revealed new depths of his friendship with the pedophile.
Photos released by Congress and the Department of Justice over the last few months show the former president on a private jet with his arm around a young woman, swimming with Maxwell and relaxing in a hot tub with another unidentified woman.
During his opening statement on Friday, the former president opened up about growing up in a family plagued with domestic abuse.
'As someone who grew up in a home with domestic abuse, 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 and led the call for justice for his crimes, not sweetheart deals,' Clinton said.
Clinton's stepfather, Roger Clinton, was an alcoholic who was physically abusive to Clinton's mother, Virginia Kelley. The former president has previously recalled intervening to defend his mother against his stepfather's abuse.
Epstein visited the Clinton White House at least 17 times between 1993 and 1995 and flew at least 27 times on the pedophile's private jet.
'But even with 20/20 hindsight, I saw nothing that ever gave me pause. We are only here because he hid it from everyone so well for so long,' Clinton added. 'And by the time it came to light with his 2008 guilty plea, I had long stopped associating with him.'
Clinton is the first ever former president compelled to testify before Congress against his will. The 79-year-old finally agreed to testify after being threatened with contempt charges.
The deposition is being held in private, but it is recorded by cameras and the testimony is expected to be released after it is viewed by the Clintons' legal team.
Republicans have sought to question Clinton about Epstein for years, especially as conspiracy theories arose following Epstein's 2019 suicide in a New York jail cell while he faced sex trafficking charges.
Those calls reached a fever pitch late last year, when the new DOJ photos revealed the president's relationship with Epstein ran deeper than previously reported.
In a declaration to lawmakers last month, Clinton admitted flying on Epstein's plane in 2002 and 2003 while he was traveling internationally for the Clinton Foundation.
Clinton said Epstein 'offered a plane that was big enough to accommodate me, my staff and my US Secret Service detail, in support of visiting the Foundation's philanthropic work.'
The former president said he never visited Epstein's private Caribbean island, Little St James, where many of the pedophile's accusers say they were trafficked for abuse.
Maxwell said in an interview with the Justice Department last year that Clinton was never there.
'I do not recall speaking to Mr Epstein for more than a decade prior to his 2019 arrest' Clinton's declaration said.
Hillary said after her deposition: 'I think the chronology of the connection that he had with Epstein ended several years before anything about Epstein's criminal activities came to light.'
James Comer has pledged extensive questioning of the former president. He claimed that Hillary had repeatedly deferred questions about Epstein to her husband.
Epstein was found hanged in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence as his only co-conspirator ever convicted.
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I would ask him very specific, descriptive and ookie questions including bodily fluids and specific minors specifying their age so that he has to say no. His strategy is to say he doesn’t recall. Be willing to burn that strategy down. If you are not willing to do that then why were the Clintons called in the first place? Don’t be a Gowdy.
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[SEMAFOR] The US is aiming to process 4,500 refugee applications from white South Africans each month, a pace that would far exceed President Donald Trump's stated global refugee cap, according to a State Department document reviewed by Reuters.
The contracting document reveals plans to install trailers on US embassy property in Pretoria to support processing efforts. It comes just days after the arrival in Pretoria of the new US ambassador to South Africa, the conservative media figure Leo Brent Bozell. The Trump administration launched the program to admit Afrikaners as refugees in early 2025, citing claims of violent persecution and land seizures targeting the community after apartheid. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has pushed back strongly against such claims, culminating in a clash with Trump in the Oval Office last May. Critics argue the White House policy amounts to selective immigration that bypasses refugees fleeing far more acute humanitarian crises elsewhere.
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Refugees can always choose asylum in a contiguous state now that Mayorkas is no longer running things.
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Not sure what contiguous state in Southern Africa would be welcoming for white, Christian, "Boer-descendant" farmers. Pretty sure we have a great spot somewhere in the vast mid-west farm lands. Far better cultural, religious, language compatibility choices than other asylum prospects from the Transvaal. Immigrants actually bringing skills and abilities to benefit our nation, what a concept!
[BIZPACREVIEW] Baltimore, Maryland's watchdog agency is suing Democratic Mayor Brandon Scott for allegedly withholding records on potential abuse of public funds.
Scott is hampering officials' ''ability to adequately investigate complaints of fraud, financial waste, and abuse in City government,'' Baltimore Inspector General Isabel Cumming's office claimed Tuesday in local court. The lawsuit follows Scott continually barring Cumming from accessing payroll information on the Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement (MONSE), which Scott created in 2020 to reduce gun violence through community organizing, according to multiple reports.
At the state level, excessive overtime and other missteps among babus government employees cost Maryland taxpayers millions of dollars, a December report by the Office of Personnel Services and Benefits found.
Scott's office did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation's request for comment.
The city was previously willing to turn over documents to Cumming's office without incident but ''took a stunning about face'' in 2025 during her current investigation, according to the lawsuit. Scott's administration released heavily redacted pages of records, claiming state law invalidates inspector general requests, Cumming said.
''The state law is clear,'' Scott said earlier in February about the decision, according to Fox45. ''The actions that we took complied with the state law.''
[THECENTERSQUARE] Nearly a year after a nine-person jury found Greenpeace liable for $667 million in damages in a case related to the Dakota Access Pipeline, a North Dakota judge has said the environmental organization will soon be ordered to make good on the damages.
In court papers filed Tuesday, Judge James Gion granted a motion filed by Energy Transfer, the company that owns the pipeline, and said he intends to issue the final judgment on the case soon. The final judgment will detail what the three Greenpeace entities named in the lawsuit are expected to pay, but the amounts were not included in Tuesday's filings. Gion did, however, reduce Greenpeace's total liability after the jury's verdict to $345 million.
Energy Transfer sued Greenpeace in 2019 for its involvement in a massive, months-long and sometimes violent mostly peaceful protest against its Dakota Access Pipeline, which was installed in 2016 and 2017. The nearly 1,200-mile crude oil pipeline crosses the Missouri River upstream of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, and protesters said the pipeline would threaten the tribe's water supply and destroy important cultural sites.
Energy Transfer has at least partly blamed Greenpeace and its public support of the protest for why the protest ultimately ballooned in size, as it began with just a small group of Sioux people. People traveled from all over the world to camp and protest at the site, with various reports estimating there were as many as 10,000 people there at one time.
Greenpeace sent six employees to the camp who participated in protests, led trainings or otherwise lent support to the cause. It also donated money and supplies and supported the project's debanking by several lenders.
The case went to trial in 2025, and a jury found Greenpeace liable on all claims Energy Transfer brought against it including defamation, tortious interference, conspiracy, trespass and nuisance. Greenpeace maintains, despite the jury's verdict, that it is and always has been committed to nonviolence and that Energy Transfer has never proved that Greenpeace employees orchestrated or participated in violence or property damage.
Greenpeace has said it cannot afford to pay the amount last determined by the judge.
Both sides have said they will appeal the judgment.
[BIZPACREVIEW] Denver Mayor Mike Johnston has formally banned Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from city property as well as mandated the detention of any agent who uses ''excessive force'' on city residents.
The Democrat leader officially moved to protect illegal aliens from federal immigration enforcement with an executive order that comes amid his party's efforts to use the current partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as leverage to force changes to ICE that would severely impact its mission.
''No ICE officer gets to stand in our way of saving someone's life. To protect Denver, if we see any ICE officer using excessive force against a Denver resident, we will step in to detain that officer and remove them from the situation,'' Johnston said from the Mile High City on Thursday.
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