Dramatic new footage of the Clinton depositions released by the powerful House Oversight Committee shows how a frustrated Hillary Clinton nearly stormed out after firebrand Rep. Lauren Boebert snapped an unsanctioned photo of her.
The former secretary of state got into epic shouting matches with MAGA firebrands during her sworn testimony last week, while her husband, whose hands were shaking throughout his deposition, finally gave answers to longstanding questions about his ties to late sex predator Jeffrey Epstein.
“I am done with this if you guys are doing this, I’m done,” a shocked and furious-looking Hillary raged after one of her attorneys raised concerns about a photo of her that appeared online.
“You can hold me in contempt from now until the cows come home,” she fumed. “This is just typical behavior.”
Boebert (R-Colo.) copped to taking a photo of Hillary, but claimed to have done so before the hearing kicked off. Hillary vented that “it doesn’t matter, we all are abiding by the same rules.”
She pounded the table with her fist and started to leave. The deposition then went off the record, and Hillary ultimately returned.
At another point during her over four-and-a-half-hour interview, the two chafed over Pizzagate, a bizarre 2016 conspiracy theory that a DC pizzeria was part of a Clinton-connected pedophile ring.
Hillary rolled her eyes, trying not to laugh and show her indignation when Boebert asked whether she saw Epstein files that referenced coded language in the Pizzagate conspiracy theory.
“Pizzagate was totally made up. It was an outrageous allegation. It ended up hurting a number of people,” she said of the shooting at Comet Ping Pong in DC in 2016. “It caused a deranged young man to show up with an assault rifle and shoot up a local pizzeria.”
“I can’t believe you’re even referencing it. You should be—,” Hillary added, restraining herself from admonishing Boebert.
The former secretary of state also clashed with firebrand Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), who needled her repeatedly, including over her husband’s affair with Monica Lewinsky and impeachment.
Mace referenced an Epstein file email showing that now-Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick invited the disgraced financier to a Clinton campaign fundraiser in 2015. The South Carolina rep seemingly implied that Hillary wasn’t being honest when she said she didn’t know Epstein.
Hillary explained that she became connected with Lutnick because while serving as a senator from New York, he lost scores of his employees in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
“You asked the question, I’m going to answer the question,” Hillary shouted at Mace after she attempted to cut off that explanation. “This is what I spent my time doing … I was taking care of the people that lost 3,000 lives at World Trade Center.”
Mace then brought up her status as a survivor of sexual abuse, which drew some sympathy from Hillary, who acknowledged reading about what happened to the congresswoman.
“I am very sympathetic to your personal situation,” she added. “I have read about it, I have seen you testify or speak on the floor about it, and I am very much sympathetic with not only what you went through, but appreciate your standing up for survivors.”
Unlike Hillary, who has denied knowing Epstein, her husband fielded questions about his ties to the disgraced financier and travel on his infamous plane.
“No,” Bill told the panel when asked if he ever had “any communications with Mr. Epstein that related to young women or girls.”
The 42nd president briefed lawmakers on his history with Epstein and denied having any knowledge of his sex crimes before the disgraced financier was prosecuted.
He also denied having sex with a mystery woman pictured next to him in a hot tub decades ago that had been released in the Epstein files.
Bill explained the photograph was taken at a lavish hotel in Brunei, which the sultan of the tiny Asian nation had invited him use.
“My team that was working on the AIDS issue was there, Mr. Epstein was there and Ms. Maxwell,” the former president said.
“The Sultan of Brunei was a man that I had gotten to know well … and he said, ‘I want you to stay at this hotel and I hope you’ll use the pool,’ so I did.”
The former president could not identify the woman in the hot tub with him and was adamant he did not have sex with her.
“I had forgotten that there was anybody in the hot tub,” he said.
Bill, 79, told investigators that they “should be” questioning his ties to Epstein, but cautioned that given his age, he doesn’t remember everything.
“I do think you should be talking to me. I think you should have called me. I did take those plane trips with him and you have a right to ask those questions,” Bill said.
“I have to be honest with you, you know, I’ll be 80 years old if I live to my next birthday — I don’t remember everything that happened 24 years ago,” he added.
Asked when he first met Epstein, Bill said the first memory he has of him is “when I got on an airplane to take a first trip with my foundation in, I think, 2002.”
“I took one flight back from Florida to New York and all or part of several other — I think four or five — trips to Africa, Asia and one to Northern Europe,” Clinton said, unable to recall on which specific trip he first met Epstein.
Bill said he communicated with Epstein “usually only on the trips,” but acknowledged Epstein visited the Clinton Foundation’s Harlem office at least once and that he once “paid a brief visit to his house,” a mansion on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
The former president’s hands were trembling throughout his deposition.
The shaking was most noticeable when he went for his glass of water or was holding papers.
At one point, the former president read a note aloud that was submitted to the late sex trafficker’s accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, for inclusion in a 50th birthday book for Epstein.
In the note, Clinton praises Epstein for his “childlike curiosity, the drive to make a difference, and the wealth of friends.”
“Not a bad letter,” Clinton said after he finished reading it.
He maintained that nothing in the letter was in reference to Epstein’s criminal behavior with minors.
“Absolutely not. I knew nothing about that,” he said.
“I thought Epstein was interesting and curious, so I wrote a letter that I thought reflected that.”
Back in August, the Oversight panel subpoenaed the Clintons and eight others for testimony about Epstein. Initially, the Clintons refused to testify, accusing Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) in a January letter of “trying to punish those who you see as your enemies.”
But after several Democrats joined Republicans in advancing a contempt of Congress measure against the Clintons, the former first couple caved and agreed to the depositions in Chappaqua Performing Arts Center last week.
Hillary later took questions from the press and revealed publicly for the first time why Epstein’s madam, Maxwell, was at her daughter Chelsea’s 2010 wedding, explaining that she was a “guest of someone who was invited.”
Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the Oversight panel, has signaled that Dems will seek to force President Trump to testify if they take over the House in the future.
“This committee has now set a new precedent about talking to presidents and former presidents,” Garcia told reporters last week in the middle of Hillary’s deposition.
“We’re demanding immediately that we ask President Trump to testify in front of our committee and be deposed in front of Oversight Republicans and Democrats.”
Trump has lamented the subpoena fight with the Clintons, telling reporters, “I like Bill Clinton. I don’t like seeing him deposed … But they certainly went after me a lot more than that.”
The president had been friends with Epstein for years, but claims to have had a falling out with him years ago and has vehemently denied any ties to or advanced knowledge of his sex crimes.
Bill told the committee that Trump mentioned the falling out during a charity golf tournament in New York.
“[Trump] somehow knew I had flown in Jeffrey Epstein’s aircraft. And he said, ‘You know, we had some great times together over the years, but we fell out all because of a real estate deal,’ and he said, ‘I’m sorry it happened,’” Bill testified.
You can watch the full 4-hour and 35-minute video of Hillary here and the 4-hour and 33-minute video of Bill here.
