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Bill Clinton testified to the House Oversight Committee that Donald Trump cut ties with Jeffrey Epstein in the early 2000s over a land deal, according to a new report.
The Democrat president spent more than six hours answering questions Friday about his ties to Epstein, reiterating that he neither saw nor did anything wrong.
Clinton said that Trump told him he was no longer friends with Epstein over two decades ago at a golf tournament, three sources familiar with Clinton's testimony told CNN.
There were no further details given about the alleged land deal that caused their rift.
Trump said in 2019 when Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges that he hadn't spoken to Epstein in over 15 years adding that he was 'not a fan of his, that I can tell you. I was not a fan of his.'
In 2025, Trump told reporters at one of his golf courses in Scotland that Epstein 'stole' young female employees from Mar-a-Lago.
'He stole people that worked for me. I said, ''Don't ever do that again.'' He did it again, and I threw him out of the place, persona non grata.'
White House Communications Director Steven Cheung added that Trump kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago for 'being a creep.'
Neither man specified a year in which this took place.
Bill Clinton testified to the House Oversight Committee that Donald Trump cut ties with Jeffrey Epstein in the early 2000s over a land deal
The Democratic president spent more than six hours answering questions Friday about his ties to Epstein (pictured)
The White House referred us to a similar statement Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt had given to the media several weeks ago.
'The [resident has always remained consistent in that he kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club at Mar a Lago because frankly, Jeffrey Epstein was a creep.'
The Democratic former president's closed-door deposition ended after more than six hours of questioning from lawmakers who said he answered every question posed to him.
He did not take questions from the press following the deposition, as former First Lady Hillary Clinton did yesterday.
Clinton told members of Congress that he 'did nothing wrong' in his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and saw no signs of Epstein's sexual abuse. Lawmakers questioned him over his connections to the disgraced financier from more than two decades ago.
'I saw nothing, and I did nothing wrong,' Clinton said in an opening statement he shared on social media at the outset of the deposition.
Clinton allegedly repeatedly defended Trump during his deposition over his relationship with Epstein.
Republican Representative James Comer, chair of the House Oversight Committee, claimed during a break in Clinton's testimony Friday that the former president had absolved Trump.
'Trump has never said anything to me to make me think he was involved,' Clinton told lawmakers, according to Comer.
The Democratic former president's closed-door deposition ended after more than six hours of questioning from lawmakers who said he answered every question posed to him. Pictured: Clinton with Epstein in a photo released as part of a Department of Justice investigation
Clinton argued that he had cut ties with Epstein years before his crimes came to light
But this characterization was immediately challenged by Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia who claimed that 'what Comer said is not an accurate description.'
He added that Clinton's testimony brought up 'some very important new questions about comments President Trump has actually made in the past.'
Trump rebuked his Republican allies for dragging Clinton to testify, telling reporters outside the White House: 'I like him.'
'I don't like seeing him deposed, but they certainly went after me,' Trump added as Clinton became the first former president ever compelled to testify before Congress against his will.
Clinton issued a blistering statement insisting 'I saw nothing, and I did nothing wrong,' as he was grilled by the House Oversight Committee over Epstein and the Justice Department's handling of the case.
Democratic lawmakers said outside the hearing in Chappaqua, New York, that 'we're talking to the wrong president today,' amid mounting calls for Trump to testify.
Trump and Clinton have come under intense pressure to answer questions about their relationships with the pedophile financier after they were each named tens of thousands of times in the new Epstein files released by the DOJ.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is also being urged to testify after the files revealed he had visited Epstein's island after claiming he cut off all ties to the pedophile. Trump told reporters Friday that Lutnick 'is a very innocent guy.'
Donald Trump, accompanied by White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, walks towards the media as he departs on Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on Friday
Trump, who was a Clinton donor, backed his predecessor earlier this month after Bill and Hillary finally agreed to testify under the threat of contempt charges.
'It bothers me that somebody is going after Bill Clinton,' Trump said. 'See, I like Bill Clinton. I still like Bill Clinton. I liked his behavior toward me. I thought he got me. He understood me.'
Clinton fumed at Republicans for dragging his wife to testify after Hillary on Thursday repeatedly told lawmakers she never met Epstein.
'Before we start, I have to get personal. You made Hillary come in. She had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. Nothing,' Clinton said. 'She has no memory of even meeting him. She neither traveled with him nor visited any of his properties. Whether you subpoenaed 10 people or 10,000, including her was simply not right.'
Clinton signaled his answers would echo a phrase synonymous with his scandal-filled presidency: 'I don't recall.'
'You'll often hear me say that I don't recall. That might be unsatisfying. But I'm not going to say something I'm not sure of,' he continued.
'This was all a long time ago. And I am bound by my oath not to speculate, or to guess. This is not merely for my benefit, but because it doesn't help you for me to play detective 24 years later.'
Lawmakers are grilling Clinton after evidence from the Epstein files revealed new depths of his friendship with the pedophile.
Hillary Clinton's Epstein testimony was halted after a photo was leaked to a MAGA influencer on Thursday
Photos released by Congress and the Department of Justice over the last few months show the former president on a private jet with his arm around a young woman, swimming with Maxwell and relaxing in a hot tub with another unidentified woman.
In his opening statement, Clinton spoke of growing up in a family plagued with domestic abuse.
'As someone who grew up in a home with domestic abuse, not only would I not have flown on his plane if I had any inkling of what he was doing—I would have turned him in myself and led the call for justice for his crimes, not sweetheart deals,' Clinton said.
Clinton's stepfather, Roger Clinton, was an alcoholic who was physically abusive to Clinton's mother, Virginia Kelley. The former president has previously recalled intervening to defend his mother against his stepfather's abuse.
'But even with 20/20 hindsight, I saw nothing that ever gave me pause. We are only here because he hid it from everyone so well for so long,' Clinton added. 'And by the time it came to light with his 2008 guilty plea, I had long stopped associating with him.'
The deposition is being held in private, but it is recorded by cameras and the testimony is expected to be released after it is viewed by the Clintons' legal team.
Republicans have sought to question Clinton about Epstein for years, especially as conspiracy theories arose following Epstein's 2019 suicide in a New York jail cell while he faced sex trafficking charges.
President Clinton (pictured right) did not take questions from the press following the deposition, as former First Lady Hillary Clinton (pictured left) did yesterday
Epstein and Maxwell speaking with then-President Bill Clinton at an event that took place in 1993 for donors to the White House Historical Association
Those calls reached fever pitch late last year when the new DOJ photos revealed his relationship with Epstein ran deeper than previously known.
In a declaration to lawmakers last month, Clinton admitted flying on Epstein's plane in 2002 and 2003 while he was traveling internationally for the Clinton Foundation.
Clinton said Epstein 'offered a plane that was big enough to accommodate me, my staff and my US Secret Service detail, in support of visiting the Foundation's philanthropic work.'
The former president said he never visited Epstein's private Caribbean island, Little St James, where many of the pedophile's accusers say they were trafficked for abuse.
Maxwell said in an interview with the Justice Department last year that Clinton was never there.
'I do not recall speaking to Mr Epstein for more than a decade prior to his 2019 arrest,' Clinton's declaration said.
Hillary said after her deposition: 'I think the chronology of the connection that he had with Epstein ended several years before anything about Epstein's criminal activities came to light.'
Comer has pledged extensive questioning of the former president. He claimed that Hillary had repeatedly deferred questions about Epstein to her husband.
Epstein was found hanged in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence as his only co-conspirator ever convicted.
Democrats argue the Clinton deposition sets a precedent that should apply equally to Trump, who had his own documented relationship with Epstein.
Only four ex-presidents - Trump, Harry Truman, John Tyler and John Quincy Adams - and one sitting president, Richard Nixon, had been formally subpoenaed by Congress to testify. Trump, Truman, Nixon, and Quincy Adams all refused to comply, while Tyler agreed to appear.
The Supreme Court has never definitively ruled on whether a president can be compelled to testify before Congress, though the DOJ has historically argued presidents enjoy 'testimonial immunity' to protect the separation of powers.
Representative Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the committee, said: 'We're demanding immediately that we ask President Trump to testify in front of our committee and be deposed in front of Oversight Republicans and Democrats.'
Comer has pushed back on that idea, saying that Trump has answered questions on Epstein from the press.