Trump backs Bill and Hillary Clinton amid Epstein probe in stunning rebuke to House Republicans
President Donald Trump said he was ‘troubled’ by the Republican-led investigation into former President Bill Clinton’s ties to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
The House Oversight Committee is wrangling with Bill and Hillary Clinton to have the couple testify in the panel’s Epstein investigation.
This week, it was announced that Bill would sit for testimony on February 27, while Hillary would sit on the panel the day before, and that the former First Lady had requested that the hearings be held in public.
Trump told NBC News on Wednesday that he may be at odds with the Republican-led investigation, saying, “It bothers me that someone is going after Bill Clinton.”
‘Look, I love Bill Clinton. “I still love Bill Clinton,” he added. ‘I liked the way he treated me. I thought you caught me. ‘He understood me.’
His remarks contrasted with statements by Republican House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, who is leading the investigation, who accused the Clintons of delaying their appearance at hearings and defying Congressional orders.
When pressed by the Daily Mail about why the president appeared to be defending Clinton, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said it was because the two presidents shared a “good relationship.”
‘The president has respect for the former president,’ Leavitt said. ‘They shared a good relationship.’
President Donald Trump said this week that he was disturbed by the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into Bill Clinton’s ties to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. “It bothers me that someone is going after Bill Clinton,” Trump told NBC News on Wednesday. The two above are shown at a golf tournament in 2000
The Republican-led House Oversight Committee wants more information about Epstein and his crimes from Clinton, who was friends with the alleged sex trafficker
When pressed by the Daily Mail about why the president appeared to be defending Clinton, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said it was because the two presidents shared a ‘good relationship’
If the president wanted to, he could probably tell Comer to drop the investigation and stop the Clintons from testifying, given his extensive influence with Republicans in Congress.
But there is no indication that this is happening.
The House Oversight Committee declined to comment.
When the Oversight Committee first announced it was seeking hearings with the Clintons, the Democratic power couple balked, claiming the depositions were not necessary.
Now the couple is arguing that in-camera hearings should replace closed-door depositions in the name of transparency.
Hillary Clinton wrote on Thursday: ‘You love to talk about transparency. ‘There is nothing more transparent than a public hearing, cameras on. We’ll be there.’
The Clintons’ acceptance of the statement came after Comer threatened the couple with contempt of Congress if they did not comply.
Trump’s sudden embrace of the former Democratic leader sparked outrage among some of the president’s supporters.
Trump claims Bill Clinton visited Epstein’s private island 28 times
Republican orders Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate Clinton’s Epstein ties in November
Trump was socializing with Epstein but talked about how their relationship soured
‘This is so annoying. Juanita Broaddrick, an ardent Trump supporter who claimed she was raped by Bill Clinton in 1978 while he was attorney general of Democratic Arkansas, said Bill Clinton was a serial sexual harasser and rapist.
The troubling Epstein investigation description also differs from what the president said in November when he directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to ‘investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s involvement and relationship with Bill Clinton.’
Trump also noted that Clinton visited Epstein’s private island multiple times.
“I’ve never been to the island, by the way, and Bill Clinton has supposedly been there 28 times,” the president said in July 2025.
