During former President Bill Clinton’s 1999 impeachment trial, Hillary Clinton put up with a lot. She listened – along with the country – as Congress dissected intimate details about her husband’s affair with 22-year-old intern Monica Lewinsky. She endured as Republicans attacked the character of the man she must once have loved. And she sat through week after week of Saturday Night Live sketches, where Darrel Hammond faced the camera, bit his lip, and gave one thumbs up after another.
If a potential subpoena in the Epstein lawsuit goes through, she may be forced to go through it all again.
The lawsuit concerns allegations made by 29-year-old Virginia Roberts that she was forced into a prostitution ring by billionaire banker Jeffrey Epstein when she was a minor. The scandal has already ensnared Prince Andrew, who Roberts says she received $45,000 to sleep with over three separate occasions. That money came from Epstein.
While the courts decide if Epstein was, in fact, an international pimp of underage girls – known as a “creep,” in some circles – one famous name has popped up in his little black book 21 times: William Jefferson Clinton.
Court documents reveal that Clinton was a frequent flyer on Epstein’s private jet prior to 2005, when Clinton suddenly cut ties with the billionaire after he was arrested for receiving an “erotic massage” from a minor.
Court documents say that the flight records, “Clearly show that [former President Bill] Clinton frequently few with Epstein aboard his plane, then suddenly stopped – raising suspicion that the friendship abruptly ended, perhaps because of events related to Epstein’s sexual abuse of children.”
Clinton also reportedly made several trips to Epstein’s Caribbean compound while Hillary was a New York Senator.
According to Virginia Roberts, she “flew to the Caribbean with Jeffrey and then Ghislaine Maxwell went to pick up Bill in a huge black helicopter that Jeffrey had bought her. Bill must have known about Jeffrey’s girls.”
Lawyers for two of Epstein’s victims have considered issuing a subpoena for former President Clinton to provide information on Epstein. If this happens, it could draw the Clinton name through another sex scandal just as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton considers a presidential run, herself.
“Talk in Washington is that Hillary is furious with Bill about all this new information on Jeffrey Epstein,” said a DC insider familiar with both the Clintons and Epstein told Page Six.
For many, the Monica Lewinsky scandal was a political distraction that prevented more important business from taking place. Voters may be wary of returning another Clinton to the White House in the midst of what could turn out to be an even more toxic scandal.
