Barr told the House that he did not see evidence linking Trump to Epstein’s crimes:

Former Attorney General Bill Barr James Comer (R-ky, chairman of the Oversight Committee.

“He said he had never seen anything involving President Trump and he believed that if President Trump had anything to do with Epstein’s roster, he felt he felt that the Biden administration might leak.”

Former Trump administration official was the first to appear in the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into the federal government’s handling of Epstein’s case.

Just as others called to testify, Barr’s deposition took place behind closed doors.

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Comer said Barr told investigators he “knows nothing about the list of clients” and had no conversations with Trump about the list.

“Bar said he had never seen any information that he was in the archives and would be shocked if there was anything to do with President Trump that the Biden administration would not leak before the presidential election,” Comer said.

The Democrats in the room were more vague about what happened in the first two hours of Barr’s deposition, but they accused the Republicans of taking a too soft attitude.

Rep. Suhas Subramanyam, D-Va. “I have more questions now than before I went in,” he told reporters before Comer’s speech. “However, overall, I think democracy is doing most of the heavy lifting. I think we’ve learned a lot from the doubts of House Republicans.”

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Rep. James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, leads the investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein case. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

When asked about the comments, “I think it’s unfortunate that Democrats are trying to do this, in my opinion, politicized.”

Barr served as attorney general in Trump’s first administration from February 2019 to December 2020. This is his second leader Ministry of Justice (DOJ) After the first time taking on this job under former President George HW Bush.

Barr occupied the Justice Department when Epstein committed suicide in August 2019 while he was awaiting trial in New York City prison.

He said in a few days In New Orleans, the fraternity police orders addressed him the “shocking” and “angry” of the facility’s “failure to adequately fix the prisoner.”

Barr told Associated Press Later that year, he personally participated in the investigation of Epstein’s death, especially as he began reviewing security footage that night, saying no one entered the cell the night the late pedophile died.

Rep. Suhas Subramanyam said Democrats were doing “heavy weightlifts” rather than those in Barr’s testimony. (Pet Malovic of The Washington Post)

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He eventually concluded that Epstein did die from suicide, Barr told the exit that it was due to the “perfect mess” in the prison.

Asked whether Barr spoke to House investigators on Monday, Comer refused to “represent” the former attorney general, but added that he believed the “general consensus” was Epstein’s suicide without an external foul.

Barr’s testimony is a broader part Bipartisan investigation In handling the Epstein case, the case also involved several former attorney generals, FBI directors, and former first couple Bill and Hillary Clinton.