I knew Ghislaine Maxwell casually, as an acquaintance.” “It was disappointing that they refused to hold a public hearing,” Clinton added. She also pointed to what she said was the partisan nature of the questions from the Republicans on the panel. “And in fact, the Republican members didn’t even show up for the deposition of Les Wexner,” she continued. Thomas Massie, a Republican congressman from Kentucky, called on the justice department to explain why a photograph that appears to show Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, with Jeffrey Epstein, was removed from the public database of Epstein files. Last year, Donald Trump falsely claimed that South Africa’s leaders were “taking away land, they’re confiscating land” from Afrikaners.

Source: The Guardian February 26, 2026 21:05 UTC