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Lemon LIVE at 5 | Bill Clinton's Testimony On Jeffrey Epstein & Donald Trump
27 Feb 2026
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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And you see this is what is called the golden hour. It's dusk. The light is perfect. And you see the light there on front of that building. And you also see the podium set up there. We saw some lawmakers walk out moments ago, meaning Democratic lawmakers. So which leads me to believe that this is nearing completion.
uh a close at least for the day but we'll see you never know in this situation um and so that's where we are right now let me just give you a little bit of information as we are working here thank you very much max troya actor appreciate it keep up the amazing work man thank you so much i really do appreciate all of you let me just get to this before i go um thank you very much cat lord
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Chapter 2: What reactions did the public and lawmakers have to Clinton's deposition?
And so we got to do two sessions, one big long session, which really should have been two sessions. And it was really great. But I think I talked about this. I said that that I thought this was going to backfire and that this was going to be a self-owned from Republicans because people see it for what it is. And I think even the MAGA folks, I mean, look, they don't care.
They're just like, oh, I want to see Hillary Clinton. But I think this is going to be a self-owned. And what they did was... that they set a precedent, meaning that a president can be brought in and questioned. Now, do I think Donald Trump as president will ever come in? But in a couple years, it may be over for him.
Or if the Democrats take over in November, he might have to come in and do some singing. You know what I'm saying? And here's what Robert Garcia said, and then we'll talk. Here it is.
We are now asking and demanding that President Trump officially come in and testify in front of the oversight committee. He appears in the Epstein files next to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell almost more than anybody else.
So it's time for the president to answer questions about why files are missing from the DOJ, why there's been a White House cover-up, and why we continue in that administration to call this investigation a hoax.
There you go. Go, Jay.
and here is the really frustrating part of this for me not a single democrat is saying oh you can't bring our former democratic president in the democrats welcomed it every democrat on this committee involved with this said please anyone who has any information you should do your damn just to make sure not just the girls and the women also i'm sorry in the comments some of these young men who are also harmed and abused make sure that these people these victims receive justice it's so
wild to me this is one of those times it's almost kind of like the Olympics where you go because their entire argument with the Olympics down with oh can we at least not be political for a second can we not go to our base camps for a second can we not be politically divisive for a second and just celebrate men's hockey can we please just celebrate the country well if you are a real Patriot you will also come together in this moment and say hey let's make sure Donald Trump testifies before this group let's make sure Donald Trump
has to swear under oath now will that Bible light on fire when he touches it I don't know but at least let the person come in at least make the man come in it's it's it's unnerving and it's very frustrating see it's been a very frustrating week for a number of reasons not just limited to Kansas and the entire Paramount Warner Brothers situation that might happen but this is high on the this is
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Chapter 3: What did Bill Clinton say in his testimony regarding Jeffrey Epstein?
And Jelaine Maxwell already did. So the only person left to say anything in front of people should be Donald J. Trump. Yeah, look, and I agree. Someone said bring in Melania. Someone said this is going to backfire. I completely agree.
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Jay and I are awaiting the former President Bill Clinton, lawmakers really, to see what they have to say, if anything, after this deposition. We saw some Democratic lawmakers leaving not so long ago. They came out and spoke earlier in the day, but today they left. Just before we went, we started streaming. And so there we go. And I told you about what's happening here.
They're bringing in a former president rather than the one who is actually sitting in the White House right now, who has more connections and more ties to Jeffrey Epstein than anyone in the files besides Glenn Maxwell. And then maybe after that, I mean, Howard Lutnick had a relationship with him. They did went into business together. and all the things.
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Chapter 4: How do the testimonies of Bill and Hillary Clinton differ regarding Epstein?
The first is that I love this country and America was built upon the idea that no person is above the law, even presidents, especially presidents. I mean, damn, in the first line, Jay.
yeah i mean especially presidents right and this president and this is why whenever someone says both parties are the same i do have to push back a little bit if you were to say you don't like that you think some of the establishment democrats are ineffective in this moment if they're not meeting the moment if you want new blood if you want new energy if you want someone who's a bit more socially aware if you want someone who's a bit more of an attack dog that's fine
But we have to stay there is a market and clear difference between the way these two parties are handling this because this is not all who's going to win control of something. This is a this is a case at its core about a pedophilic ring of people in power. And don't you want the children and the people who were assaulted by this group of evil men? Don't you want them to receive justice?
And don't you want these men brought to justice? If you were the party who was obsessed about Pizzagate, baby, this is the real Pizzagate.
um i gotta jay i've gotta read i gotta read and she was asked questions yesterday about pizza gate and which was ridiculous but i gotta have to read that again yeah because this is some this is some uh intellectual ivy league road scholar shade this is baba this paragraph this is baba's proven where he went to school Yes, I am here today for two reasons.
The first is that I love my country and America was built upon the idea that no person is above the law, even presidents, especially presidents. I think that's an M-dash, especially presidents. I'm just saying democracy requires every person to play their part.
And I hope that by being here today, we can bring ourselves a little further away from the brink and back to being a country where we can disagree with one another civilly, where the search for truth and justice outweighs the partisan urge to score points and create spectacle. I'll do my part and I hope you'll do yours. It's clear as day.
It's spoken so plainly that this is basically an open challenge for Republicans to do the same thing. Don, you hit the nail on the head. This could backfire on them. A sitting president who is mentioned... a million times, the third most mentioned name in these files. Now a precedent has been set that former presidents can come in and give a disposition, like they could be deposed.
So now if Donald Trump doesn't come in, is he scared? Is he guilty? What would stop him from coming in? Because he said earlier today, oh, I've been completely exonerated. No, you haven't. By who? What body exonerated you? Didn't Robert Garcia speak about that? Someone spoke about that, one of the Democratic lawmakers.
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Chapter 5: What details emerged about Donald Trump's connections to Jeffrey Epstein?
Further, we need to investigate the ongoing White House cover-up. We know that the Department of Justice has been withholding files. They have been making illegal redactions. The FBI and Kash Patel have been lying under oath. All of these people need to be deposed before this committee. We need to take this investigation seriously.
There are more than 1,000 people who were harmed by Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and many other rich and powerful people, children whose lives were literally altered forever at the hands of this abuse. This is very serious. And I think the fact that some of the Republicans on the oversight committee
feel that it is appropriate to make statements to say that President Trump is somehow exonerated. Congresswoman Ana Paulina Luna said this last night. That is the most outrageous thing that I have ever heard. Donald Trump needs to come before this committee and we will not stop fighting until we get the truth and there's accountability and justice for the survivors.
Wow. Don, can I add, not only is ridiculous to say that he's exonerated, if Donald Trump is the third most mentioned name in all of these Epstein files, mentioned over a million times, and let's say Donald Trump is innocent, by God, don't you want to help
people find closure if you know anything and you're donald trump and you love this country as much as you love your first second and your third wife don't you want these victims to receive some sort of closure to receive some sort of information on what you know don't you want to give up everything within your feeble dementia addled brain so you can be done with this don't you want to be done with this
Don't you want this to not be a distraction from how horrible this year is going for you? If you're Donald Trump, this makes you Superman.
If you can go in that courtroom, if you can go in front of that committee, rip apart your chest, have an S in your chest and say everything you know about Jelaine Maxwell, put all these evil men in jail, if you can make sure these people, these women, these men, these adults who were children at the time, if you can make sure they receive justice, boom, your approval rating will go above 30%, I would think.
I would think you would want that. I would think you would want that. Well, the thing that really, you know, there are lots of things that are out there that I go, hmm, that make you go, hmm. Things that make you go, hmm.
That thing that made me go, hmm, really recently is when he was on Air Force One and he said, look, I can, as someone who's been exonerated, I can speak on this, like, whatever he said, bigly or whatever he said. Yeah.
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Chapter 6: Why hasn't Donald Trump been called to testify about Epstein?
Let's say you are guilty. You're 79. You ain't going to be in jail long. And, I mean, it would be a nice, relaxing vacation. Yeah. You won't have to worry about anything. You get three meals. You get three hots and a cot. I don't know. It's odd. It's odd. If you love this country this much and you could save it, save it. Save these victims. Help these men. Help these women. Help them.
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Chapter 7: What implications does Clinton's testimony have for Trump's political future?
But I say that because this is a place that is not partisan. This is a place where the country is seeing Republicans and Democrats
work together to figure this out find the truth and try to come up with solutions so that when this happens women are believed men are prosecuted their abuses are prosecuted and justice can be seen and can be done and i want to thank everyone for their hard work i think i can't say anything about the questions and answers today or yesterday but i i will comment that i believe you'll see some inconsistencies and some of the responses i brought that to the forefront this afternoon thank you
um i'd like to close by saying that we do intend to follow up and bring in and i know that that's up to the chairman's discretion but some of the co-conspirators that were given lesser sentences that were known to have trafficked young girls unacceptable there's a difference between a victim and someone who engaged in prostitution and the trafficking of minors and that needs to be clarified
I will, again, hold to the same thing that I said earlier, and that I do believe, and I'm sure some people on this committee also believe, that Jeffrey Epstein was an intelligence asset and running some form of a honeypot operation. I do believe that President Clinton, as well as the Secretary, were potentially targets of that operation, and we will leave it at that.
And I look forward to seeing you all react to the depositions, as I think that this is information that's important and belongs to the American people. Mr. Langworthy? Pam Bondi was in charge in Florida. I want to salute our chairman, James Comer, for putting together an extremely professional deposition these last two days.
Factual, this was not a highly partisan event like most of our hearings are when we're in Washington. We were there to ask direct questions. I think President Clinton today was quite candid, probably more candid than his attorneys were comfortable with. But I think that this will, obviously, when we release the video of this, I mean, you'll have the opportunity to digest it.
But we do have to get justice for the victims because in all of the political food fight of Washington, D.C., what is getting lost is the fact that there are victims that deserve justice. Depositions like this are important because we need to get answers. We need justice for the victims.
Epstein and his associates committed unspeakable evil, and I'm glad that President Clinton and Hillary came out here. What I believe I saw over the last two days was selective memory. Very good details back into the 90s, and in other times, I don't know, I don't recall. So we have more questions to answer. Thank you. And we'll answer a couple of questions.
Can you definitely say that as a result of the former president's deposition, you now have more information that you didn't have before about his sex trafficking ring? And secondly, also as a result of the deposition, will you be opening any new investigations or new inquiries in
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Chapter 8: What legal challenges are being faced in the Epstein investigation?
So we're going to try to release those. Yeah, well, the transcript has to be approved by the attorney. So the video could very likely come out before the transcripts. Once the transcribers were in here, we had a whole team of transcribers. They're going to, you know, put it on, on paper, then both sides will get to approve the transcripts. Then we'll release it.
That's standard rules of deposition. We always do that. We will do that with the with the videos as quick as we can get them all uploaded and cleaned up any background noise or anything like that. Then we will release them hopefully in the next 24 hours.
Yes, yes. Mr. Chairman, I know there's been you've been asked repeatedly about Secretary Letnick as well. While this deposition was playing out, President Trump said that Secretary Letnick would testify. Have you made a decision?
Well, we have a lot of questions about anyone who spent time with Epstein post-conviction, the first conviction. I think that's where, and if anyone disagrees, feel free to speak up, but I think that's where most of our concerns are. Once you knew Jeffrey Epstein was a sex offender Why did you continue a relationship?
So stay tuned on that.
Well, uh, We were respectful. Yeah, I mean, you can watch the video and say, you know, everybody knows President Clinton. He's got southern people skills. He's a charming individual, obviously. Yes, yes.
Southern people skills. Bless his heart. I'm a southerner.
Slick Willie, they said. Well, they said they weren't, I guess, innocent until proven guilty. We're going to go back and look at, there were a lot of, there were, the reason Ms. Clinton complained about being asked the same question over and over is because we presented different emails, different documents that would suggest that she was close with Epstein and Maxwell.
And obviously she denied that. Now we're going to go back and verify that to see if any type of perjury was committed. Chad.
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