Hillary Clintons closed-door deposition before the House Oversight Committee on her ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was briefly suspended Thursday after Republican Rep.
Lauren Boebert of Colorado transmitted an unauthorized photograph to a conservative commentator.
According to the Daily Caller, the committee temporarily halted proceedings when Boebert sent an image of Clinton testifying to podcaster Benny Johnson, who promptly posted it on X and credited Boebert as the source. The hearing later resumed, despite Democrats seizing on the incident to object to transparency measures that Clinton herself had previously demanded.
Johnson defended his decision to publish the image, insisting that the disclosure was consistent with Clintons own calls for openness. It was authorized, Johnson said on X. And its hilarious theyre trying to use this to weasel out of answering questions on Epstein. It was Hillary who demanded this deposition be LIVE for all to see.
Boebert, a frequent critic of the Clintons and of efforts to shield high-profile Democrats from scrutiny, made clear that the committees work was continuing. Benny did nothing wrong. Proceeding with deposition, Boebert wrote on X, signaling that Republican leadership would not allow a procedural dust-up to derail questioning about Epstein.
Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, had pushed to testify publicly if they were to participate at all, according to New York Times congressional correspondent Annie Karni, but Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer declined to turn the proceeding into a televised spectacle. The Clintons ultimately agreed to appear on Feb. 2 to address their relationship with Epstein after the former president was referenced in Department of Justice records released Feb. 1, including a photograph of him in a hot tub with Epstein.
Those disclosures came as the DOJ began rolling out batches of documents to comply with The Epstein Files Transparency Act, a law aimed at exposing the full scope of Epsteins network that President Donald Trump signed in November. For many conservatives, the clash over a single photograph only underscores a broader pattern: powerful Democrats demanding transparency on their own terms while Republicans press for full accountability under the law.
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