Hillary Clinton's opening statement to Committee

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Hillary Clinton just posted her opening statement to the Comer Committee which she is testifying before today. It's part of the Save Donald from Epstein Investigation. The committee has essentially taken over the town of Chappaqua for the purpose. @hillaryclinton.bsky.social

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) 2026-02-26T16:32:09.433Z

For those having trouble reading the Bluesky link, Bigtree has a clear image of the opening statement here

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221050746

[malaise]

1. She ate their lunch and dinner

Eff these hypocrites

[chowder66]

2. Well said!! Go Hillary!!

[Just_Vote_Dem]

3. I'm fighting back tears

Such brilliance from this lady!

[yaesu]

4. If I were HRC I would answer every question with I do not recollect anything more than tRump is a russian agent asshole

[newdeal2]

6. And "I won the popular vote"

[hamsterjill]

5. She is (as usual) spot on and amazing!

Question to the group, please. I've not been keeping up with the news the last few days and have not heard why the Clintons decided to agree to testify without it being a public testimony.

Does anyone know why they did? This is not a snide comment. I love both Big Dawg and Hillary and I was simply hoping to be able to see their testimony live.

[gab13by13]

7. I reckon because they were going to charged with contempt.

[hamsterjill]

9. I figured.

Wish they had held out.

I understand that Bill is trying to set a precedent (i.e., that former Presidents can be compelled to testify), but I sure wish they would have held their ground so that the world could see (live) what they had to say and not have their words spun by Faux News.

[ScratchCat]

13. But a court never weighed-in on the subpoena

I understand that Bill is trying to set a precedent (i.e., that former Presidents can be compelled to testify),

A court never ruled he had to. He is setting no precedent. Only SCOTUS can do that.

There is no scenario where Donald J. Trump will ever be forced by a court of law to be interviewed by Congress. None. Zero. Zip. Nada. All Bill did was guarantee a perjury investigation against Hillary and himself.

[hamsterjill]

16. Thanks.

n/t

[LiberalArkie]

25. If Donald is compelled to testify, he will just lie and lie. After all as a "Star", he is allowed to do that.

As a "president", the supremes allow him to say anything he wants to say. If anyone disagrees or questions his testimony he can just call the Marshalls and have them arrested and sent to Gitmo. Who can stop him? Dictators are allowed to do that.

[MW67]

54. The Clinton's

Could have went to court and beat that easily,they choose to testify ( Remember the president or former president is immune from prosecution)

[MadameButterfly]

58. Didn't we eventually see Jack Smith's testimony that was originally private?

I suspect we'll see Hillary's too. Certainly we are reading it.
She has a history of making Republicans sorry they forced her to testify (remember Bengazi).
She can run circles around all of them.

[RussBLib]

8. That statement is choppy

Several sentences just end at the end of a line.

I wish Hillary would insist that, “if the Committee insists on interviewing First Ladies, you should call Melania Trump. After all, Epstein introduced Melania to Trump. Rumor is Jeffrey had sex with her before selling her to Donald. Melania would know far more about Epstein than I would.”

But they don’t want the truth. They only want to score points with the Orange Blob.

[SheltieLover]

11. Yes, haul malaria in!

[Justice matters.]

31. And they fail (of course). A clear majority (60%) see...

their disgusting gamesmanship and criminal cover up machinations.

[ShazzieB]

36. It looks choppy because it is.

The text in the Blue Sky post is incomplete. There is text missing from the bottom of each of the first 3 pages. To see the full statement, you have to click on the Blue Sky post and then scroll through the four pages to read all of it.

It would be nice to have a direct link to the full text of the statement. I'm sure it is available online somewhere other than Blue Sky, but I can't find it.

[SouthernOregonDem]

10. Excellent.

[obnoxiousdrunk]

12. What is she

saying ? I can't see anything.

[malaise]

15. Try this - MUST READ

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sgti3jsgu3luif24tokvth3a/bafkreia3cwigxkt2uhgmmztffxdds2bql7bvwgc7ox6bya3ojxr4lxc5gm@jpeg

You can access all the pages and enlarge
Add

[thesquanderer]

46. For some reason, that only gets me p.4. Maybe it depends on the browser? (n/t)

[malaise]

47. Click each page

It will work.

[thesquanderer]

50. This is the entirety of what I see at that link.

No additional pages to click on.

[malaise]

51. Use this link 😀

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221050746

[malaise]

49. Better link

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221050746

[GiqueCee]

14. I noticed that...

... a few sentences were cut off in the middle of making a point. Who edited this statement?
Other than that, Senator Clinton's statement was brilliant, and to the point. It carved Comer and his klan a richly deserved new one. Sadly, sociopaths are congenitally incapable of shame, because that's what they all deserve.

[JT45242]

17. Wow-- simply wow -- so clear and well written. HRC is an amazing individual

How much better would we all be if she had been elected instead of Mango Mussolini?

How much better would the world have been if a well educated serious person had been in charge of the most powerful country during the pandemic?

I weep for where we are now, knowing that if she had won, where we would likely be.

[MineralMan]

33. Some People "Just didn't like Hillary."

So they voted for Jill Stein. Weird shit!

[RussBLib]

18. And while the Committee is investigating....

…. How about exuming Ivana’s grave on Donnie’s golf course? I’d bet money some of the Trump-Epstein files are buried with her.

The orange blob never returned a lot of classified docs he took when he left the White House. I’d bet even more money that some of the docs he never returned involved Jeffrey Epstein.

ttps://russblib.blogspot.com/?m=1

[PATRICK]

28. Almost certainly

Why else the feverish personal scanning through countless files? He could be no judge nor waste time on anything else, even IF he was trying to find blackmail on his relatively innocent enemies. Immensely stupid and even more desperate that his brazen control keeps escalating to deny the mountain of evidence in the mountain range of files any accountability.

[democrank]

19. Hillary Clinton has done more to help victims and prevent trafficking

than all Republicans combined.

[NNadir]

20. You get 'em Madam Secretary! You are way above their talking DOWN to them...

...exactly as they deserve.

[usonian]

21. OK DU'ers. I am kind of ripshit angry about illegible twitter screenshots.

Please have the courtesy of doing a simple dumbass web search to get legible text.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c626qqrl76nt

This is a thorough, timely and dynamite article.

Respectfully (sorta)

Usonian.

[neohippie]

26. First of all its on BlueSky not Twitter

The post is on BlueSky NOT Twitter, and if you click on them you can go to the BlueSky post and there if you click on them it gives your larger images of the full pages of text that are easily read.

But all of that, may be technically challenging to someone, if you are not tech savvy enough to distinguish between Twitter which no longer exists in that name and other social media applications

However you apparently were savvy enough to search and find a link where you read the statement and posted it. so there is that

[niyad]

41. Was that smugly condescending post really necessary?

[usonian]

52. I hear you but images are not text. That's why the Good Lord invented OCR.

And the images came from text.

I have OCR'ed a ton over time.

BlueSky had a real opportunity to improve on twitter but it's so "more of the same"

DU is infinitely better, with its "slightly better than 1980's" format.

And I visit Hacker News often, with a text format that's like usenet.

The internet is toxic, unreadable crap because "tech leaders" are Bozos. Including Bezos. And people eat it up instead of demanding better.

"I'm mad as hell and not going to take this any more."



And have a great day. Without OCR.

[niyad]

40. I do not see the text of her statement anywhere in that link.

[thesquanderer]

44. I sympathize but your link seems to be a dynamic (changing) page, the text isn't currently easily available there either

[mountain grammy]

22. Excellent!

Too bad republicans can’t read or comprehend.

[Vinca]

23. An excellent statement. I'm glad she pointed out that Trump gutted the anti-trafficking initiative.

[Prairie Gates]

24. Brava!

[Botany]

27. Both Bill and Hillary are very skilled lawyers and very smart too. This will not work out well for them.

Go Hillary!

“Instead, you have compelled me to testify, fully aware that I have no knowledge that would assist your investigation, in order to distract attention from President Trump's actions and to cover them up despite legitimate calls for answers.”

[Justice matters.]

32. She's telling these criminal hacks actively covering up their beloved pedo...

they should subpoena the melanium and ask her if the predator sold her to their beloved pedo fraudster.

[Botany]

38. Funny they subpoenaed Hillary Clinton who has never met Epstein but did not subpoena the Slovenian...

…. sex worker who damn well knew what Jeffery Epstein’s child sex trafficking operation was
all about. I now wonder if Vlad Putin was providing girls to Melania who passed them onto
Maxwell/Epstein’s sex/blackmail business?

[malaise]

35. Yep

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/26/clintons-testify-epstein-files-house

[mcar]

29. I will never forget, nor forgive, people who refused to vote for this good woman

and I'm talking about people on the left.

[Scalded Nun]

30. So impressive. It brings me to tears.

What this country wasted when it allowed charlatans to so deceive its populace and instead put in place the absolute worst that humanity has to offer. Twice.

[Exp]

34. Awesome! nt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

37. Here is a PDF that is readable of this statement

[Pluvious]

42. I'm assuming they will also call upon Melania to testify too ?

[OMGWTF]

43. Tough act to follow -- your move Comer Pyle.

[JohnnyRingo]

45. I absolutely love that woman and I know why republicans hate her.

They fear her. They are not in control of this woman and her words carry great weight.

I would think they'd learned after Benghazi, but that was also theater to distract from the election. They found her innocent of all charges almost immediately after the election.

Well... They're running that play again.

[Warpy]

48. Stinking, corrupt Republicans always play "Git Clinton" whenever they get caught

being stinking, corrupt Repoublicans, have you noticed? I'm sure Ms. Clinton has, they've been doing it for over 30 years now. Tou'd think they'd havee come up with someone else to litigate to death in that amount of time, but I guerss they are not only slow, they're stuck.

This is a distraction, a stupid one since evebn hard line MAGAts are bored with the Clintons. It's not going to work. Again.

[bigtree]

53. k&r

Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton 1h
Here is my opening statement to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.

[purr-rat beauty]

55. Make sure Melania doesn't get ahold of it!

I can see her stealing this when she gets tagged to speak

[leftstreet]

56. DURec

[GoodRaisin]

57. The Fascist Party has no interest in getting to the truth because they know

Krasnov’s pedophilia will be revealed. But sooner or later Nutlicker and Krasnov and the other pedophiles will be compelled to testify. Bondi will be compelled to reveal the missing files implicating Krasnov raping a child. Presidential immunity will only protect them for so long. Might not be long at all.

Police should check Krasnov’s wee wee for a bite scar.

[Initech]

59. It's all to make slop content so their shitty talk shows have something to blab about.

[GiqueCee]

60. Hillary Clinton...

... was the most highly qualified candidate for president in my lifetime – and I'm OLD! What the Republicans are doing now is an obscenity; shit, everything about Der Republican Party is an obscenity! NO decent person can continue to support their criminality.
There will be a price to pay, you evil fucks, and you will pay dearly.