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US House panel subpoenas Bill and Hillary Clinton for Epstein testimony

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Bill and Hillary Clinton arrive for Donald Trump’s inauguration in Washington DC on 20 January 2025. Photograph: Kenny Holston/EPA

The House oversight committee on Tuesday issued subpoenas to Bill and Hillary Clinton as well as several former attorneys general and directors of the FBI, demanding “testimony related to horrific crimes perpetrated by Jeffrey Epstein”.

The investigative committee’s Republican chair, James Comer, sent the subpoenas in response to two motions lawmakers approved on a bipartisan basis last month, as Congress navigated outrage among Donald Trump’s supporters over the justice department’s announcement that it would not release further details about Epstein, a disgraced financier who died in 2019 while awaiting trial for sex trafficking.

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