The former American president Bill Clinton explained the viral photos that were published in the archives of the Epstein casein which he is seen in a jacuzzi and a swimming pool with a woman, whose face is censored.
Clinton and his wife, the former Secretary of State Hillary Clintontestified last week before a congressional committee investigating the convicted sex offender Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell.
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In that statement, Clinton told House Oversight Committeewho had no knowledge of the sexual crimes of Epstein, who was found dead in a cell in New York in 2019, while awaiting trial for sex trafficking.
In said hearing, the 79-year-old former president also answered questions about the photo in which he is seen in a jacuzzi with a woman with her face covered by a black rectangle and on another image in which she is seen swim in a pool together with Maxwell and an unidentified woman.
In this regard, Clinton said that the photos were taken in a hotel during a visit Bruneiat the invitation of the sultan, who, he said, was interested in supporting the AIDS initiative of the Clinton Foundation.
“He invited me to stay there and said, ‘I want you to stay at this hotel and I hope you use the pool,'” Clinton said. “I swam for a while. “I sat in the hot tub for five minutes or however long, and then I got up and went to bed,” he said.
“I also believe that there was an agent of the Secret service on the other side of the pool,” he said.
Clinton also said that she did not know who the unidentified woman in the photos was, but that she believed that was part of the tour group. “I don’t know who it is,” he said.
Clinton also faced questions about whether “had some sexual activity” with the woman who appears in the photos, to which the former US president responded no.
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Hillary Clinton told the commission that she did not know Jeffrey Epsteiny Bill Clinton She claimed that she broke ties with him before his sexual crimes became known in 2008.
On the other hand, the former president acknowledged during his testimony that he repeatedly traveled on Epstein’s private plane in the early 2000s for activities related to the humanitarian work of the Clinton Foundation.
The hearings were held behind closed doors in Chappaqua, New Yorkwhere the Clintons reside, and the committee released videos of their testimony on Monday.
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