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The unlikeliest person may have just defended Trump about Epstein — under oath

The Blaze
1 week 3 days ago


Former President Bill Clinton stated during his Friday deposition that President Donald Trump never gave him any indication he was involved with convicted sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein, according to House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.).

The committee deposed his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the day prior. During her testimony, she seemed to throw Bill Clinton under the bus by deferring most of their questions to her husband, lawmakers reported.

'I saw nothing, and I did nothing wrong.'

Epstein reportedly visited the White House 17 times during the Clinton administration. Flight logs revealed that Bill Clinton took 26 flights on Epstein's plane, including international trips to Bangkok, Rwanda, Russia, and China. Clinton's last known documented trip on Epstein's plane was in November 2003.

Ahead of Friday's hearing, Clinton shared his opening statement to the public.

"As someone who grew up in a home with domestic abuse, not only would I not have flown on his plane if I had any inkling of what he was doing — I would have turned him in myself and led the call for justice for his crimes, not sweetheart deals," he wrote.

Clinton advocated justice and healing for the "girls and women whose lives Jeffrey Epstein destroyed."

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He framed his relationship with Epstein as a "brief" acquaintanceship that "ended years before his crimes came to light." He claimed he "never witnessed during our limited interactions any indication of what was truly going on," insisting that he "had no idea of the crimes Epstein was committing."

"I saw nothing, and I did nothing wrong," Clinton wrote.

The former president warned in his opening statement that he would often answer lawmakers' questions with, "I don't recall."

"That might be unsatisfying. But I'm not going to say something I'm not sure of. This was all a long time ago," he stated.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) responded to Clinton's opening statement in a post on X, writing, "We've added a new question for former President Bill Clinton to the top of the list: Do you suffer from dementia or memory loss?"

Clinton was impeached by the House in 1998 for perjury and obstruction of justice. In a 2001 statement, Clinton confessed to providing false testimony under oath and acknowledged violating a judge's discovery orders. He conceded that he had "tried to walk a fine line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely," admitting that some of his responses "were false."

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During a break in Clinton's Friday deposition, Chairman Comer addressed reporters to share a comment the former president made. Comer explained that Clinton stated President Donald Trump "has never said anything to me to make me think he was involved" with Epstein.

"I know there's a lot of curiosity about President Trump. I thought that was an interesting thing that President Clinton said," Comer stated.

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Is this Olympian a designer baby? The gold medalist’s IVF and surrogacy story

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1 week 3 days ago


Olympic figure skater and gold medalist Alysa Liu has made Americans across the country proud — but BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey believes there is one thing that needs to be discussed when it comes to Liu’s past.

Alysa’s father, Arthur Liu, fled China as a political refugee and landed in California where he attended law school.

“Now he is the only biological parent that Alysa knows because Alysa was born by surrogacy. He used IVF with anonymous egg donors. This has all been reported publicly,” Stuckey explains.

“And then there’s also something interesting about how Arthur chose the women who were going to be the egg sellers for all of his children. So he specifically chose white women as these egg sellers. I don’t say egg donors because these women are making money from selling their eggs for all of his children,” she continues.


Liu did this because he believed it would give them a “diverse gene pool and reflect his own blend of Chinese and American cultures.”

“That should just kind of make your skin crawl a little bit that you’re creating these designer babies as if out of a catalog. I mean that’s really objectifying these little people,” Stuckey says.

“Arthur has said he doesn’t know the identities of the egg donors or the egg sellers. There are no records available to reveal them, which just again points to something that we need to understand when it comes to egg selling is that we are purposely cutting children off from half of their biological reality,” she explains.

“You don’t get to know the fullness of your medical history. You don’t get to know the fullness of your ethnicity. You don’t get to know the fullness of your origin or your family’s origin. And I think it’s just an innate longing in all of us to know whom we are and from where we come,” she continues.

And Liu’s daughter’s path to the Olympics was no accident either.

In an interview with Liu on “60 Minutes,” he explains that he took Liu to Japan as a child to learn from the top coaches there — spending “half a million to a million dollars.”

“That could probably be said by a lot of these Olympic parents. They invest a lot of time and energy and money into their kids. And I’m not condemning him,” Stuckey says.

“It’s just another opportunity for us to be reminded that yes, while everyone, no matter the circumstances surrounding their conception or surrounding their gestation or birth, are made in God’s image, we are glad Alysa is here, we are glad her siblings are here. It looks like they had a decent upbringing, I hope so,” she continues, though she points out that despite this, no one has a right to a child.

“Children are people. They’re image bearers of God. They’re not something that we are entitled to be able to create by any means necessary,” she adds.

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US Catholic bishops call on SCOTUS to shut down Trump birthright citizenship order and protect 'human dignity'

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1 week 3 days ago


The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops filed an argument in opposition to President Donald Trump's order against birthright citizenship, calling it "immoral."

The U.S. Supreme Court has taken up an appeal from the Trump administration of a lower court ruling siding with a class-action lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union.

'It is a question of whether the law will affirm or deny the equal worth of those born within our common community — whether the law will protect the human dignity of all God’s children.'

The bishops filed an amicus brief with the court to argue that shutting down birthright citizenship violated the "God-given human dignity" of children of migrants wanting to come to the U.S.

"Children do nothing wrong by being born in the United States," the bishops wrote in the brief. "Yet, this executive order renders them stateless. Depriving an innocent child of his citizenship based upon his parents’ immigration status would be an especially outrageous punishment — one that this court has rejected as punishment even for people who have been proven guilty."

Opponents of birthright citizenship say the policy depends on a misreading of the 14th Amendment, which goes back to the Civil War era, and argue that ending it would eliminate much of the motivation for illegal immigration.

The bishops addressed this argument in their brief.

"At its core, this case is not solely a question about citizenship status or the Fourteenth Amendment," they wrote. "It is a question of whether the law will affirm or deny the equal worth of those born within our common community — whether the law will protect the human dignity of all God’s children."

They went on to appeal to the court by citing a biblical parable.

"Migrants often flee war and persecution seeking a better life for their families," they added. "It is critical that we treat our suffering neighbors not with indifference, apathy, or bias, but instead with the same type of mercy as depicted in the story of the Good Samaritan, whose love transcended the most strident ethnic division of that day."

Some online noted that the counsel of record listed for the brief is Matthew Martens, a Baptist who says he voted for former President Joe Biden.

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Despite an invite from Vice President JD Vance to the pope for the 250th U.S. celebration, the Vatican said Pope Leo would not be visiting the U.S. this year.

Six of the nine justices on the Supreme Court are Catholic.

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