Hillary Clinton flipped the script on Republicans' Epstein theater [View all]

Republicans clearly hoped this week that by hauling both Clintons in front of the House Oversight Committee for questioning about Jeffrey Epstein, they could, at minimum, embarrass Democrats. But this gang only ended up embarrassing themselves. The former secretary of state handily turned what Republicans presumed would be a humiliating moment into her own political win — and showcased Republicans’ woefully unserious handling of the Epstein scandal in the process.

Any reasonable person might have wondered what the heck the House Oversight Committee, the panel that is supposed to be Congress’ watchdog over the executive branch, was doing wasting its time with Hillary Clinton. At least Bill Clinton knew Epstein in the early 2000s and flew on his plane numerous times. But as the former first lady said when she spoke to the press after her deposition, “I don’t know how many times I had to say I did not know Jeffrey Epstein, I never went to his island, I never went to his homes, I never went to his offices.”

And that wasn’t all. “It then got at the end quite unusual,” she said, “because I started being asked about UFOs, and a series of questions about Pizzagate.” For some reason, they didn’t press her on whether NASA faked the moon landing.

This is the nature of the Republican response to the unending Epstein scandal: from Congress, the kind of buffoonery represented by the Clinton deposition; and from the administration, an insistence that Trump is unconnected to or “exonerated” from a scandal whose central figure long counted the president as a friend.

https://www.ms.now/opinion/hillary-clinton-epstein-deposition-house-republicans-scandal

talk about a witch hunt!