Former US President Bill Clinton and wife Hillary want to testify about Epstein publicly

Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton during the Clinton Global Initiative 2024 Annual Meeting at a hotel on Manhattan Island in New York in the United States on September 24, 2024. [AFP]

Former US president Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary are calling for their congressional testimony on ties to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein to be held publicly, to prevent Republicans from politicizing the issue.

Both Clintons had been ordered to give closed-door depositions before the House Oversight Committee, which is probing the deceased financier’s connections to powerful figures and how information about his crimes was handled.