"Bill-Hillary Clinton" agreed to be testified about Jeffrey Epstein case, preventing contempt vote

Bill Clinton, former 42nd President of the United States, and Hillary Clinton, former first lady and Secretary of State, have agreed to testify in the congressional investigation regarding the Jeffrey Epstein case, which is a sexual abuse and sex trafficking case involving many global influentials. This is the first testimony of Clinton since they had canceled the congress’s committee before, indicating that it is a political game of Donald Trump, President of the United States at present.

The Jeffrey Epstein case is usually called “Epstein’s file case,” as the Ministry of Justice published the evidence file of this case, which consists of 3 million paper pages. This file shows the relevance of many politicians, businessmen, and influentials across the world to the crime of sexual abuse and sex trafficking, specifically at the private island of Epstein.

Bill Clinton, the former U.S. president from the Democratic Party, is one of the influential people in Epstein’s file. Congress’s committee issued a subpoena to him and his wife to get into the testimony process. However, they were rejected from getting into the process, claiming it was about Trump’s attempt to eliminate political opponents since he is the president from the Republican Party. Additionally, there is much evidence showing the close relation between Trump and Epstein, even though he was never called by the congress and involved officials to testify.

Nevertheless, last week the Ministry of Justice published more evidence regarding the Jeffrey case, resulting in Congress’s committee being ready to contempt vote on both of them from their earlier rejection, which was deemed to be committing a crime.

Since being pressured with the contempt vote, Clinton has decided to get into the closed-door depositions for the testimony process to uphold the principle of equality in legal enforcement for individuals at all levels.

James Comer, MP from the Republican Party and Chairman of Congress’s committee, plays an important role in urging the contempt vote prosecution against Clinton, even though their lawyer had contacted the committee’s official about their consent in testimony. Comer stated that both of them did not appoint a date and time to get into the testimony.

The evidence of the Epstein case indicates the close social relation between Bill and Epstein from the late 1990s to 2000 and shows that Bill used to commute by Epstein’s private plane at least 16 times during the early 2000s. Even so, Bill showed his condolences towards the incident and denied any knowledge of or involvement in Epstein’s crimes and stated that he had never traveled to the private island.

On Hillary's side, she affirms that she doesn’t have any involvement in Epstein’s crime, but the committee insists on investigating her according to the process.

The testimony of the former President and former First Lady is intended not only to provide justice for the victims of the Epstein case but is also tied to political tensions within Congress. Republicans stated that issuing this subpoena to the Clintons is a move to demonstrate that no one is above the law. On the other hand, a spokesperson for the Clintons stated that their agreement to testify is intended to set a precedent showing that the law applies to everyone.

Bill’s testimony marks the first time a former U.S. President will testify before a Congressional committee since 1983, when Gerald Ford, the 38th U.S. President, testified regarding his pardon of former President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. At that time, Ford claimed the move was to end a national tragedy and allow the United States to move forward.

SOURCE : BBC