Hillary Flips the Script on MAGA’s Epstein Circus

After Republicans leak her deposition photo, she demands Trump testify too

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee have spent months theatrically circling Hillary Clinton over the Epstein files. If this were a serious, good faith effort to uncover the truth, they would be applying the same standard to everyone named in those files. Bill Clinton. Donald Trump. Anyone with proximity to Jeffrey Epstein. Instead, what we are watching is a selective political spectacle designed to wound one target while shielding another.

And it just blew up in their faces.

Hillary Clinton’s deposition was abruptly halted after MAGA Representative Lauren Boebert snapped an unauthorized photo of Clinton mid-testimony and sent it to far-right activist Benny Johnson, who promptly blasted it across social media with his watermark plastered all over the image. Boebert’s name tag was visible in the shot. There was no mystery about the source. Within minutes, the closed-door deposition descended into chaos.

Let’s pause on the absurdity. Republicans demanded a private deposition. No cameras. No press. No transparency. But apparently that rule only applies to everyone except Lauren Boebert and her favorite MAGA influencer.

After the leak, Clinton requested that the press be allowed into the room for the remainder of the deposition. If Republicans truly cared about transparency, this would have been the easiest yes in the world. Instead, Chairman James Comer refused. They want secrecy when it protects them, and selective leaks when it benefits them. That is not oversight. That is stagecraft.

This entire episode fits into a broader pattern that has become impossible to ignore. Time and time again, Republican leadership circles the wagons when allegations implicate their own. Speaker Mike Johnson has repeatedly found himself balancing moral outrage with political math. In the case of Republican Congressman Tony Gonzales, who allegedly pressured a female aide into sending sexual images before she later died by suicide, the moral math should be simple. Resignation. Immediately.

To their credit, several Republicans have said as much. Tim Burchett called it stomach-turning. Lauren Boebert labeled Gonzales a “disgusting pig.” Even Nancy Mace said he should resign. But the subtext hanging over it all is the same: Johnson’s majority is razor thin. If Gonzales resigns, that majority shrinks. And suddenly accountability becomes inconvenient.

That is the through line here. Power protecting power.

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton walked into that deposition and flipped the script. She accused Comer and the Republican panel of shielding political allies, specifically Donald Trump, while hyper-fixating on the Clintons. She called for Trump himself to testify in a House Epstein hearing. It was a simple but devastating maneuver. If I’m here under oath, she’s effectively saying, so should he be.

And she’s right about one thing: the standard must be even.

Recent reporting revealed that the Department of Justice did not release records from three FBI interviews with a woman who alleged abuse by Jeffrey Epstein and also made sexual abuse allegations against Donald Trump. Those records were reportedly excluded from the broader document release. That matters. If Republicans want full sunlight, then release all of it. Not the politically convenient slices. All of it.

Inside the deposition, Clinton addressed questions about Ghislaine Maxwell attending Chelsea Clinton’s wedding, explaining that Maxwell was there as a plus-one of someone she was dating. She fielded repeated attacks on the Clinton Global Initiative, an organization that, despite years of right-wing smears, funded global health and anti-poverty initiatives. Whether you like the Clintons or not, conflating vaccine distribution and humanitarian aid with some shadowy criminal conspiracy is unserious.

And that’s the core problem. This isn’t about seriousness. It’s about narrative control.

Republicans demanded a closed-door setting, then leaked images to friendly media. They blocked independent press access when Clinton asked for it. They selectively amplify allegations tied to Democrats while resisting scrutiny of Trump’s documented ties to Epstein. If oversight were the true goal, Trump would already be in that chair.

Let me be clear. No one should be above questioning. Not Bill Clinton. Not Hillary Clinton. Not Donald Trump. Not anyone. If your name appears in those files, you should answer for it. That’s how accountability works.

But accountability cannot be partisan.

Hillary Clinton, of all people, understands political trench warfare. By showing up, testifying, and then demanding that Trump do the same in public, she turned what was supposed to be a one-sided ambush into a test of Republican consistency. If they refuse to call Trump, they confirm her argument. If they agree, they expose their own.

Either way, the game becomes harder to rig.

Ten years ago, Republicans insisted that 30,000 emails were the gravest scandal in modern political history. Today, we are staring at mountains of Epstein-related documents, some released, some redacted, some allegedly withheld. The scale is not comparable. The stakes are not comparable. And the American people are not blind.

If Republicans truly believe in transparency, open the doors. Let the press in. Call every name. Subpoena every witness. Including Donald Trump.

Until then, this looks less like oversight and more like obstruction dressed up as outrage.

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