The US House Oversight Committee has called on former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to testify in the case of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, AFP reported.

While Donald Trump has been accused for several weeks, even by his own electoral base, of a lack of transparency in the case of the financier who died in prison before being tried for sex crimes, Republican leader James Comer said he had called on former President Bill Clinton on October 14 and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on October 9 to answer questions about their ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Six former justice ministers and two former heads of the FBI were also summoned to appear at hearings from mid-August to mid-October on the progress of the judicial investigation into the financier.

"By your own admission, you traveled on Jeffrey Epstein's private jet four times in 2002 and 2003," said a letter addressed to Bill Clinton by James Comer, chairman of the influential House Oversight Committee.

It is unclear whether the Clintons will comply with this order, AFP reported.

The death of Jeffrey Epstein, found hanged in his cell in New York on August 10, 2019, before his trial for sex crimes, has fueled countless conspiracy theories that he was killed to cover up a scandal involving prominent figures.

Donald Trump, who during his campaign promised his voters sensational revelations in this case, has been subjected to fierce criticism, including from his staunchest supporters, after his government announced in early July that it had found no new elements that would justify the publication of additional documents.

Since then, the White House has been trying to put out the fire.

To this end, the second-highest ranking official in the Department of Justice,

Todd Blanche, Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, visited the Florida prison where Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's former partner and accomplice, is being held at the end of July to question her for a day and a half.

The former New York socialite was transferred to a prison with lighter conditions in Texas, a decision condemned by Democrats, who accused the Trump administration of doing favors for the woman convicted of sexual exploitation.

Donald Trump, who along with Jeffrey Epstein was a figure of the New York elite in the 1990s and 2000s, reignited the debate about the nature of his own relationship with the financier by presenting a new version of their split in the 2000s.

On board the presidential plane Air Force One at the end of July, the Republican billionaire said that their dispute concerned female employees at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, whom Jeffrey Epstein had "taken."

Until now, the White House had claimed that Donald Trump had expelled the financier from his club about 20 years ago after they had been very close because he "behaved like a pervert."

The American media, for their part, mentioned a rivalry over the acquisition of real estate in Florida. | BGNES