Bill Clinton, speaking to Congress about Epstein: "I saw nothing and I did nothing wrong."

WashingtonFormer President Bill Clinton asserted during his testimony regarding the Epstein case that his relationship with the convicted sex offender ended "years before his crimes became known" and that he was never a "witness during the limited interactions" between them. "I had no idea of ​​the crimes Epstein was committing. I don't care how many pictures he shows me, there are two things at the end of the day that matter more to me than his interpretation of those 20-year-old photos," he stated in a press release issued while the hearing was still underway in Chappaqua, New York. As with yesterday's hearing with his wife Hillary, the proceedings were closed to the public. "I saw nothing and I did nothing wrong," he stated emphatically.

The photographs Clinton refers to are a series of images released among the millions of files related to the Epstein case. In one, the former president appears in a jacuzzi with women. In two others, he is seen embracing a woman. In another, a woman is sitting on his lap. In yet another, he appears with Epstein. The Democrat testified separately from his wife on Friday, who testified for seven hours on Friday. Hillary Clinton told committee members that she is 100% certain her husband knows nothing about Epstein's crimes. Clinton also invoked the passage of time to make it clear that she will not confirm anything she doesn't remember perfectly. "You will often hear me say that I don't remember things. Perhaps that's unsatisfactory. But I won't say anything I'm not sure about. This happened a long time ago, and I am bound by oath not to speculate or guess. This is not simply self-interest; it won't help you at all to play detective 24 years later." Like his wife, Clinton also criticized the pressure from committee Republicans to get them to testify. The couple alleges that this is a plot to try to damage the image of the Democrats and divert attention from Trump, who is cited more than 5,000 times in the documents. "But before we begin, I have to get personal. He brought Hillary here. She had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. Nothing. She has no recollection of even meeting him. Nor of traveling with him or visiting any of his properties," the former president reproached.

In her testimony yesterday, Hillary Clinton repeated the same line, stating that she didn't even remember meeting Epstein. However, He admitted that he did know Ghislaine Maxwell "casually," Epstein's former partner and accomplice. Maxwell was a plus-one of the guests at Clinton's daughter's wedding in 2010.

Hillary Clinton's testimony lasted seven hours despite her not having much information to offer, so her husband's will likely be longer. Leaving the hearing, the Democrat denounced "unusual" questions from Republican committee members about "UFOs" and the "Pizzagate" conspiracy theory.

Both the Clintons and the Democratic members of the House committee overseeing the Epstein investigation want to use the hearing to refocus attention on Trump. "We should question under oath the person mentioned in the Epstein files more than almost anyone else, after Ghislaine Maxwell, and that's Donald Trump," said Robert Garcia, the ranking Democrat on the committee, on Thursday.