Former President Bill Clinton told a House committee under oath on Friday that he spoke to Donald Trump about Jeffrey Epstein exactly once, and that nothing in that conversation suggested Trump bore any connection to Epstein's crimes. That's according to Rep. James Comer, chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, who appeared on Newsmax's "Finnerty" shortly after the closed-door deposition concluded.
Comer did not mince words about what Clinton's testimony means for the president.
"Bill Clinton today said under oath that he had spoken to Donald Trump once about Epstein, and he never saw or heard anything about Donald Trump in their conversation that would lead him to believe that Donald Trump had any liability."
According to Newsmax, Comer called the testimony evidence that "exonerates" Trump. And he noted the obvious: Clinton had no reason to do Trump any favors.
"There's no love lost from Clinton to Trump."
That framing matters. This wasn't a friendly witness offering political cover. This was a former Democratic president, under oath, in a setting secured only after months of legal wrangling, confirming what Trump's allies have maintained for years.
Bill Clinton did not arrive at this deposition willingly. He spent months defying a subpoena from Comer's committee, which is investigating how Epstein built his global political and financial network and whether government officials responded appropriately to his crimes. It took intense negotiations and the threat of contempt of Congress charges before Clinton finally agreed to sit for a transcribed deposition.
His wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, testified on Thursday. The committee has not released details of her testimony.
Comer also pointed to a previous deposition from former Attorney General Bill Barr, who he said testified to "no liability with Donald Trump" regarding the Epstein matter. Two separate witnesses, from opposite ends of the political spectrum, arriving at the same conclusion under oath.
None of this has dampened the enthusiasm of House Democrats who want Trump himself hauled before the committee. Rep. Robert Garcia, the ranking Democrat from California, has led calls for Trump "to sit for deposition on Epstein ties."
When guest host E.D. Hill asked Comer about those calls, the chairman was blunt. He noted that Trump has already answered questions about Epstein in other settings and that the sworn testimony from Clinton and Barr points in only one direction. Then he offered a prediction about where Democrats' strategy leads:
"I think the evidence is clear thus far that Donald Trump has no liability and is exonerated."
He added that Democrats who keep pushing this line will "look like fools for only obsessing over Donald Trump."
This is a familiar cycle. Democrats attach Trump's name to a scandal, repeat the association until it calcifies into an assumption, and then treat the absence of evidence as proof that the investigation hasn't gone far enough. When actual testimony, under oath, from a hostile witness, contradicts the narrative, the goalposts shift. Now they need Trump himself to testify, not because the evidence demands it, but because the political theater requires it.
Consider the sequence. Clinton resists a lawful subpoena for months. The committee has to threaten contempt to get him into a chair. He finally testifies and clears Trump. And the Democratic response is to demand more testimony from the person who was just cleared.
The investigation into Epstein's network is a serious matter. The late convicted sex offender built something monstrous, and the question of which powerful figures enabled it, ignored it, or benefited from it deserves rigorous answers. That's exactly what Comer's committee is pursuing. The Clintons were compelled to testify precisely because the committee is following the evidence wherever it leads, not because it's running a partisan operation.
Democrats had every opportunity to let the investigation work. Instead, they've spent their energy trying to redirect it toward a target that two sworn depositions have now cleared. The obsession isn't oversight. It's opposition research dressed in subpoena power.
Bill Clinton sat in that chair because the committee made him. What he said when he got there is the story. Everything else is noise.