Hillary Clinton spent months fighting tooth and nail to avoid testifying under oath about Jeffrey Epstein – skipping two subpoenas, threatening legal battles, and demanding the whole thing go public so her lawyers could turn it into a political show.
Today, she finally sat down in Chappaqua and started answering questions.
And within two hours, Rep. Lauren Boebert had leaked a photo of Hillary mid-testimony – and what happened next is something the Clinton machine has spent 30 years making sure you never got to see.
Lauren Boebert’s Leaked Photo From Clinton Epstein Deposition That Sent Hillary’s Team Into Panic
The deposition was supposed to be airtight – closed door, no cameras, no press, nothing leaking out until Clinton's lawyers had approved every frame of footage.
Then Boebert snapped a photo of Hillary mid-testimony and sent it straight to conservative commentator Benny Johnson, who posted it on X with a caption that went instantly viral: the first image of Hillary Clinton testifying under oath about Jeffrey Epstein.
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Clinton's team immediately tried to shut everything down.
Spokesman Nick Merrill told reporters outside that the hearing had been paused while the committee figured out where the photo came from and why members of Congress might be violating House rules.
Hillary left the room.
According to Johnson, she didn't just step out – she stormed out.
"I cannot believe this is happening," Johnson posted on X. "Hillary Clinton just STORMED out of the Epstein Deposition because I posted a photo of her testifying. Now the Clinton PR team is crying about me to the press."
Boebert wasn't apologizing.
"Benny did nothing wrong," she posted. "Proceeding with deposition."
Johnson made the obvious point – it was Hillary who had demanded this whole thing be public in the first place.
"It's hilarious they're trying to use this to weasel out of answering questions about Epstein," he wrote. "It was Hillary who demanded this deposition be LIVE for all to see."
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The deposition eventually resumed.
The Clinton Spokesman Who Buried Epstein Questions Before Is Back
Here's the detail that should make your blood boil.
The spokesman out front today – working the press corps, managing the damage, running to reporters about Boebert's photo – is Angel Ureña, Bill Clinton's deputy chief of staff.
Benny Johnson recognized him immediately and posted the connection on X alongside a clip: Ureña is the same man who shut down the only other time Hillary Clinton was asked about Epstein on camera.
The panic on Ureña's face in that footage tells you everything you need to know about what the Clinton operation has been doing for years.
Every time Epstein comes up, the same team springs into action.
Same spokesman. Same playbook. Same goal – make the question disappear before the answer gets out.
Today, for the first time, that playbook failed.
Bill Clinton's Epstein Files: 26 Flights, White House Visits, and a Cover Story That Just Collapsed
Hillary's opening statement was predictable and polished – deny, deflect, attack Republicans.
She told the committee she had no idea about Epstein's crimes, did not recall ever encountering him, never flew on his plane, and never visited his island.
Then she spent the rest of the statement demanding Trump be deposed instead.
Here is what the Epstein files actually show.
Epstein visited the Clinton White House at least 17 times between 1993 and 1995, according to visitor logs.
Bill Clinton flew on Epstein's private jet – the plane later connected to his sex trafficking operation – at least 26 times between 2002 and 2003, according to flight logs unsealed in civil litigation.
In his own 2024 memoir, Bill Clinton wrote: "Traveling on Epstein's plane was not worth the years of questioning afterward. I wish I had never met him."
The DOJ's Epstein file releases include photos of Bill Clinton in a hot tub with an unidentified woman, poolside with Ghislaine Maxwell – now serving 20 years for sex trafficking – and receiving a massage from a woman later identified as one of Epstein's accusers.
Maxwell also attended Chelsea Clinton's wedding in 2010.
Clinton skipped two deposition dates before today – including the January 14 date that triggered a bipartisan contempt vote in the House.
She only sat down today because Democrats joined Republicans to advance that contempt resolution, and the prospect of up to a year in prison finally got her into the chair.
House Oversight Committee Has Clinton Under Oath – And Bill Testifies Tomorrow
For the first time in modern American history, a former president and his wife are being compelled to testify before Congress under subpoena – under oath, with contempt consequences if they lie.
Bill Clinton sits down tomorrow.
Chairman Comer said Friday's session will be even longer than today's.
The Clintons fought this for six months because they understood exactly what it meant – every answer is on the record, every hedge becomes a legal liability, and everything eventually goes public on tape.
The transcript and video will be released after Clinton's lawyers have reviewed the footage.
Which means the American people will eventually see every answer Hillary Clinton gave today under oath.
Lauren Boebert just made sure they also know what Hillary looked like when she was giving them – and that Angel Ureña was right outside, running the same operation he's always run.
Here's what that means for tomorrow.
Bill Clinton logged 26 flights on a plane connected to a child sex trafficking operation – and he sits down Friday with Comer holding six months of preparation and every answer Hillary gave today as a roadmap.
The man who wrote "I wish I had never met him" in his own memoir now has to say it out loud, under penalty of perjury, to a committee armed with flight logs, visitor records, DOJ photos, and a pattern of Clinton spokesmen shutting down every question that got too close.
The playbook failed today.
Tomorrow, there's no photo to storm out over.
Sources:
- Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson), X posts, February 26, 2026.
- "Leaked Photo Brought Hillary Clinton's Closed-Door Epstein Testimony To Abrupt Halt," The Daily Caller, February 26, 2026.
- "Confusion Addressed After Photo Scandal During Closed-Door Hillary Deposition," The Daily Wire, February 26, 2026.
- Susan Ferrechio, "Hillary Clinton Tells Panel 'I Have No Knowledge' of Epstein Crimes," The Washington Times, February 26, 2026.
- "Hillary Clinton Says She Does Not Recall Meeting Epstein as Oversight Deposition Kicks Off," The Hill, February 26, 2026.
- Chairman Comer, "Chairman Comer Subpoenas Bill and Hillary Clinton," House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, August 5, 2025.
- "119th Congress House Report – Clinton Contempt Resolution," U.S. House of Representatives, 2026.
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