This is the shocking moment that Hillary Clinton stormed out of her deposition on Jeffrey Epstein after learning a lawmaker had taken a surreptitious photo of her.
‘I’m done with this,’ Hillary yelled after her lawyer informed the House Oversight Committee that the image was circulating online.
‘If you guys are doing that, I am done. You can hold me in contempt from now until the cows come home. This is just typical behavior,’ Hillary shouted.
Republican lawmaker Lauren Boebert sounded panicked as she admitted that she had taken a photo before the hearing began and promised Hillary: ‘I will take that down.’
‘It doesn’t matter, we all are abiding by the same rules,’ Hillary shrieked at Boebert, banging her fist on the table and pointing at the Republican.
The former secretary of state stood up and stormed out of the room as the cameras were quickly cut off. The hearing resumed within an hour.
It is strictly prohibited for lawmakers or witnesses to take pictures inside a closed-door congressional testimony.
The House Oversight Committee released the deposition video on Monday after Hillary’s explosive testimony last Thursday. She and her husband Bill Clinton were dragged to a performing arts center near their home in Chappaqua, New York, to answer questions over their relationship with Epstein.
It was the first time in US history that Congress had deposed a former or sitting president.
Given the new precedent, Democrats have demanded that Donald Trump testify, though Clinton refused to be drawn into the debate.
‘That’s for you to decide, but [Trump] did know him well, and I once had a brief discussion with him about it,’ Clinton, 79, told Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia.
After a pause, Clinton spoke up, offering clarifying information and noting how Garcia never asked a follow-up.
‘I hate this,’ Clinton declared after the long pause. ‘But since there was no follow-up question, he’s never, the president, never, this is 20-something years ago, never said anything to me to make me think he was involved in anything improper.’
Hillary told the committee repeatedly that she did not know Epstein and had only met her co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell on a few occasions, directing many of their questions to her husband.
‘I do not recall ever meeting Jeffrey Epstein,’ she told lawmakers under oath.
Hillary said that ahead of the hearing she was informed that Epstein had attended an event organized by the White House Historical Association.
‘That’s the only time that I’m aware of that I might have possibly been in the same room with him,’ Hillary said.
There is a photo of Epstein and Maxwell meeting Bill Clinton at a White House Historical Association event in 1993.
‘We had hundreds and thousands of people who came to the White House. I was not informed of what people did or didn’t do for work, especially someone that I never even uh had a conversation with,’ she said.
Hillary was grilled about receiving a $20,000 donation from the disgraced pedophile in 1999 when she was fundraising for the DNC.
She said that she had been informed of this in preparation for her hearing, and the way that campaign donations were structured meant it was unlikely she would have been aware at the time.
‘I don’t recall that I knew it at the time and I was you know surprised to learn it in preparation for testifying,’ Hillary told the committee.
Regarding Maxwell, Hillary said: ‘I knew her primarily as someone who dated someone that I knew.’
Maxwell attended Chelsea Clinton’s wedding in New York in 2010. The Clintons previously stated that she was there as a plus one.
She told the committee that she had met Maxwell a few times but that she ‘didn’t see her very often.’
Hillary was also questioned about her husband’s relationship with the financier, including 17 flights on his private jet.
Photos released by the Justice Department last month showed Clinton with his arm around a young woman on the aircraft, as well as swimming with Maxwell and lounging in a hot tub with an unidentified woman.
Hillary told lawmakers that she knew Bill traveled on ‘a number of different planes owned by a number of different people.’
She said she ‘did not recollect’ conversations about the planes, adding that they talked only about his charitable work on those trips.
Epstein and Maxwell appear to have played a key role in setting up the Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative, according to the Epstein files.
‘I don’t recall ever talking about Mr. Epstein. He was not on my radar. He was not somebody that I had any connection to,’ Hillary said.
