Former President Bill Clinton offered an unprompted defense of President Donald Trump during his Jeffrey Epstein deposition before the House Oversight Committee last week.
Clinton seemed to say more than what his lawyers would have preferred multiple times throughout the deposition. At one point, he went beyond his initial answer to a Trump-related question from ranking Democrat Robert Garcia of California after Garcia had yielded his time.
When Garcia asked Clinton if he thinks Trump should also face questions from the Oversight Committee about his ties to Epstein, Clinton replied, “That’s for you to decide, but he did know him well.” Clinton then said that he and Trump “had a brief discussion” about Epstein.
Garcia ended his line of questioning after Clinton’s answer, but the former president then offered a longer response on President Trump.
“I hate this because I don’t want to inject anything,” Clinton said as one of his lawyers appeared unsure of what the former president was going to say next. “But I do not want to leave the impression — but since there was no follow-up question, the president never — this is 20-something years ago — never said anything to me to make me think he was involved with anything with regard to Epstein either.”
“He just didn’t,” Clinton added. “He just said, ‘We were friends, and then we had a falling out over a land deal or a property deal.'”
WATCH: President Clinton calls out Democrats for selective questions & says twice that President Trump is clear of wrongdoing.
“Since there was no follow-up question … he never said anything to me to make me think he was involved in anything improper with regard to Epstein.” pic.twitter.com/ZVUy04kpZn
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) March 2, 2026
Clinton said he and Trump spoke about Epstein while they were playing a round on Trump’s golf course in 2002 or 2003. The former president testified he didn’t recall whether Trump brought up Epstein during their conversation, adding, “I would be shocked if I did.”
“He somehow knew I had flown in Jeffrey Epstein’s aircraft and he said, ‘We had some great times over the years, but we fell out all because of a real estate deal,'” Clinton added.
Last Friday, during a brief recess in Clinton’s deposition, House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) told reporters that Clinton had discussed President Trump and said Trump “has never said anything to me to make it seem like he was involved.” Shortly after Comer spoke to reporters, ranking member Garcia said that the chairman’s description wasn’t completely accurate.
“President Clinton did bring up some additional information about some discussions with President Trump. I think the way Chairman Comer described it, I don’t think is a complete accurate description of what actually was said,” Garcia told reporters.
Later in the deposition, Clinton reiterated that he has “no information that [Trump] did anything wrong.”
“I just want it all out there,” the former president added. “I want everybody to get it all out there and let everybody see where we are.”
Trump said on Friday that he didn’t believe Bill Clinton should have been deposed over his relationship with Epstein.
“I don’t like seeing him deposed,” Trump said, adding, “I like him.”
Democrats have repeatedly said they will push to subpoena Trump over his ties to Epstein after Republicans “set a new precedent” by deposing former President Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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