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Hillary Clinton Spars With Reporter Who Presses Her About Links To Epstein, Maxwell

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton denied that she and former President Bill Clinton had connections to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell during a BBC interview posted to YouTube Tuesday.

After BBC Berlin correspondent Jessica Parker referenced the former first couple’s connections to Epstein and Maxwell, she asked, “[D]o you regret the links that there have been between Epstein, Maxwell, and the Clinton family?” Clinton did not directly answer, prompting Parker to repeat the question.

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“You know, we have no links,” Clinton said. “We have a very clear record that we’ve been willing to talk about, which my husband has said he took some rides on the airplane for his charitable work. I don’t recall ever meeting him.”

Parker then asked if she had met Maxwell.

“I did on a few occasions, and thousands of people go to the Clinton Global Initiative [CGI]. So to me it is not something that is really at the heart of what this matter is about,” Clinton said. “They are accused and in both cases were convicted of horrific crimes against girls and women. That should be the focus.”

CNN senior politics reporter Andrew Kaczynski responded to a clip of Clinton’s remarks on X Tuesday adding context to her claim about numerous individuals attending the CGI.

“Maxwell did not just go to CGI, Maxwell and her charity partnered with CGI and Maxwell was an honored guest in 2013 there for her ocean charity making commitments at CGI,” Kaczynski wrote. “We saw that she had complementary access.”

The CNN reporter also posted a screenshot of his August reporting, which noted 2013 was years after Maxwell faced public accusations of assisting Epstein in abusing minors. He further reported that Maxwell attended the Clintons’ daughter Chelsea Clinton’s 2010 wedding.

Moreover, the Department of Justice (DOJ) released a photograph of the former president shirtless in a pool with Maxwell in December.

The former secretary of state claimed during the BBC interview that the photo “was one of the stops they made to look at philanthropic and charitable work” and that it took place “long before there was any public awareness and certainly any conviction of any crime by Jeffrey Epstein.”

The former president and former secretary of state agreed on Feb. 2 to testify in the House Oversight Committee’s probe into Epstein after having rejected several subpoenas. The former president is set to testify on Feb. 27 and the former secretary of state is slated to testify on Feb. 26, according to the BBC.

The Clinton Foundation directed the Daily Caller News Foundation to the former secretary of state’s office, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment.