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Congress just handed Americans another reminder of why trust in Washington is at rock bottom: on February 26, 2026, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sat for a closed-door House Oversight deposition in Chappaqua as part of the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and his network. What was supposed to be serious fact-finding instead looked like another episode in the long saga of elite privilege — a staged, behind-the-scenes session that will leave many taxpayers feeling excluded from the truth.
Clinton’s opening lines were predictably defensive, insisting she had “no idea” about Epstein’s crimes and claiming not to recall ever meeting him, the same blanket denials Washington has heard for years. For many Americans watching, those words will land exactly as they have before: familiar excuses from a political class accustomed to skirts of secrecy and selective memory.
Make no mistake, this deposition did not happen in a vacuum — it followed months of subpoenas, threats of contempt, and partisan hand-wringing as Republicans demanded sworn testimony and Democrats searched for cover. House Oversight Chairman James Comer and other Republicans have openly warned that the committee will push contempt resolutions and even refer matters to the Justice Department if the Clintons keep stonewalling. That’s not grandstanding — it’s the only lever left to force answers when the powerful try to dodge accountability.
And yet the Clintons’ posture reveals the same old arrogance: pointing to the supposed illegitimacy of a closed deposition while having benefitted for decades from private dealings and preferential treatment. The public record shows connections between the Clintons and Ghislaine Maxwell through the Clinton Foundation and social circles, including Maxwell being a guest at Chelsea Clinton’s 2010 wedding — details that make perfunctory denials ring hollow for anyone paying attention. Americans deserve more than platitudes and PR talking points.
Republicans are right to insist on transparency, but the optics of a private deposition are a double-edged sword: investigators need candid testimony, yet the public rightly wants daylight on matters involving alleged trafficking and powerful figures. Chairman Comer has pledged that depositions under his watch will be recorded and made available shortly after they occur, a commonsense compromise that both preserves the integrity of questioning and gives taxpayers access to the facts. If the goal is truth rather than theater, make the transcripts public and stop the cover-ups.
The broader lesson for voters is simple: Washington protects its own until ordinary citizens demand otherwise. If congressional committees let the Clintons off with carefully vetted statements and private sessions that never see the light of day, then the rule of law becomes a slogan rather than a reality. Hardworking Americans who pay the bills and serve this country deserve an oversight process that’s relentless, public, and fearless.
This moment should be a call to action for conservatives who believe in accountability: push for full transparency, back contempt referrals when appropriate, and make sure no one — no matter how famous or well-connected — can hide from the consequences of obfuscation. The Clintons’ closed-door testimony may have been meant to blunt the heat, but it will only fan the flames of a movement demanding real reforms and honest answers from a political class that has taken the public’s trust for granted.
