All posts tagged "Bill Clinton"

Former President Barack Obama took a brutal swipe at President Donald Trump's taste in decor, and critics of the president couldn't get enough.

Obama appeared in Cleveland on Saturday to support Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton and Senate candidate Sherrod Brown. During his speech to a packed crowd, Obama mocked the gold trim and accents Trump has added to the White House since returning to office. "He's got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory," Obama said. "It's gold everywhere."

The video clips of the jab quickly spread across social media, where Trump critics cheered the former president's delivery....

Former President Bill Clinton revealed to lawmakers Friday that he had a previous conversation with President Donald Trump about what really caused the rift between him and Jeffrey Epstein years ago.

Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D-FL) described what Clinton said during a closed-door House Oversight Committee deposition in Chappaqua, New York, over his relationship with Epstein.

"I’m happy to clarify. President Clinton brought up a conversation he had with Trump in NYC re: Epstein," Frost wrote on X. "President Clinton said that Trump told him that he had a falling out with Epstein due to a land dispute. This directly refutes Trump’s claims about why he fell out with Epstein."...

President Donald Trump defended former President Bill Clinton Friday as Clinton began his sworn deposition before the House Oversight Committee about his relationship with late financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump was preparing to head to Corpus Christi, Texas, for an election event when reporters asked him what he thought of Clinton testifying before lawmakers in a closed-door deposition about his connection to Epstein.

"I don't like seeing him deposed," Trump said. "But you know, they certainly went after me a lot more than that... I like him, and I don't like seeing him deposed." ...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's spokesperson had a sharp response Friday after Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) tried to claim that the former First lady was "unhinged" and "screaming" during her testimony before the House Oversight Committee.

During a press conference Friday, just before Clinton's husband and former President Bill Clinton was set to testify before the committee about his relationship with late financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Mace made several claims about Clinton's reactions to the lawmakers' questions on Thursday. The former First lady was asked a series of questions — including some related to the Pizzagate conspiracy theory and aliens — during a closed-door deposition in Chappaqua, New York.

Her spokesperson Nick Merrill told CNN that Mace was lying about what she told reporters and that wasn't what happened. ...

CNN host Michael Smerconish had a warning Friday for Republicans focusing on Democrats and their ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Smerconish revealed that the House Oversight Committee's GOP lawmakers should remember that once the midterms hit and if Republicans lose majority power — which polls have indicated they could — then they should be ready for Democrats to change the direction of the investigation with a deeper look into the late financier and convicted child sex offender's ties to conservative leaders and public figures. He also raised concerns over forcing the Clintons to testify behind closed doors and the ramifications of the move.

"I think that we're in a realm of a very careful balancing now where people's reputations are being tarnished because of association and not necessarily based on conduct," Smerconish said during a conversation with anchor Wolf Blitzer....

Testimony given by Hillary Clinton, and a further statement to be given by former president Bill Clinton on his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, may worry Donald Trump's close allies.

The 42nd President of the United States is set to testify later today (February 27), and it may give Trump and his team something more to worry over when it comes to the Epstein files. While Trump has tried to defer the Epstein files issue onto the matter of Clinton's mention in documents, it could backfire, according to CNN political analyst Stephen Collinson.

The analyst suggests the gamble made by the president, to hone in on the Clintons and their relationship with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, could backfire. ...