(Washington) Former US President Bill Clinton spoke to a parliamentary committee about a photo of him in a jacuzzi published among the documents in the file of sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein and which went viral.
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This committee of the House of Representatives dominated by Republicans on Monday released videos of the closed-door hearings under oath of Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State, on Thursday, and of Bill Clinton on Friday, each lasting a little more than four and a half hours.
Asked about a photo showing him in a jacuzzi in the company of a woman with a blackened face, the former Democratic president said he was “almost sure” that it had been taken in a hotel in the Sultanate of Brunei, at the end of a “very long plane trip to Asia” for his foundation’s AIDS program.
This photo was released in December by the US Department of Justice to comply with a law passed in November by Congress requiring the Trump administration to be fully transparent about the Epstein affair. It had generated numerous comments.
Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell were taking part in this trip, Bill Clinton said.
Another photo taken in the same hotel shows him in the swimming pool in the company of Ghislaine Maxwell with another woman with her face hidden, but the ex-president said he did not remember who it was.
Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, both 79 years old, each had ties to Jeffrey Epstein, but claim to have broken up with him well before his death in prison in New York in 2019 and to have had no knowledge of his sexual crimes.
The mere mention of a person’s name in the Epstein file documents made public by the US Department of Justice does not a priori imply that they have committed wrongdoing.
But since the publication on January 30 by the American justice system of “three million pages” of documents, many leaders and personalities from around the world have been splashed by the revelation of their past links with Jeffrey Epstein, provoking criminal investigations, arrests and resignations, mainly in Europe.
