Former President Bill Clinton testified that Donald Trump once told him about having 'great times' with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a golf tournament conversation in the early 2000s. The videotaped House testimony was released Monday as part of an ongoing congressional investigation.

Former President Bill Clinton has revealed that Donald Trump once spoke to him about enjoying ‘great times’ with Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender, according to sworn testimony released Monday.
The revelation came during Clinton’s videotaped testimony before the House Oversight Committee, where he described a conversation with Trump at a golf tournament sometime between 2002 and 2003.
During that exchange, Clinton testified under oath, Trump mentioned their past friendship before it deteriorated. ‘Somehow he knew I had flown in Jeffrey Epstein’s aircraft,’ Clinton recounted to lawmakers. ‘He said, ‘You know, we had some great times together over the years, but we fell out all because of a real estate deal.”
According to Trump’s previous statements, his friendship with Epstein ended after the financier recruited young women who were employed at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.
Clinton emphasized that Trump’s comments did not suggest any improper conduct involving Epstein. The White House has not yet responded to requests for comment regarding Clinton’s testimony.
Both former presidents had connections to Epstein prior to his 2008 guilty plea for soliciting prostitution from a minor. Neither Clinton nor Trump has faced criminal charges related to Epstein, and both have maintained they witnessed no evidence of sex trafficking activities.
The wealthy financier, who hosted numerous business and political figures at his luxury properties in New York, Florida, and the Caribbean, was taken into custody again in 2019 on federal sex trafficking charges. He died in his jail cell later that year in what authorities determined was suicide.
During the Trump administration, the Justice Department made public millions of documents from Epstein investigations, including photographs showing Clinton with women whose identities were concealed.
Clinton has consistently denied any wrongdoing while expressing regret about his past association with Epstein.
In his recent testimony, Clinton explained that former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers introduced him to Epstein, describing the financier as a philanthropist willing to provide private jet transportation for Clinton’s global AIDS foundation work. Clinton acknowledged using Epstein’s aircraft for international trips to Asia, Africa, and Europe, plus one domestic flight, but said he stopped accepting such assistance after 2003.
‘I thought Mr. Epstein was an interesting man, but I didn’t think he was really interested in what I was doing,’ Clinton stated during his testimony.
The former president denied having any sexual contact with individuals connected to Epstein or his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, though he did acknowledge receiving a neck massage from a flight attendant who was later identified as an Epstein abuse victim. Clinton said he was unaware of Epstein’s history of abusing young women recruited as masseuses.
‘I didn’t think it was anything unusual. I can’t tell you how many airplanes I’ve been on where rich people asked me to go and they had someone offering massage. All these boats that you go on and all that, they all do that. And usually I don’t do that,’ he explained.
Clinton also testified that he never traveled to Epstein’s private Caribbean island and was unaware that Epstein had visited the White House 17 times during his presidency from 1993 to 2001.
The Republican-controlled committee also issued a subpoena to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who testified last week that she had no recollection of ever meeting Epstein.
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