Bill Barr deposition kicks off House GOP’s Epstein probe

Former Attorney General Bill Barr answered questions about Jeffrey Epstein in a Monday deposition with the House Oversight Committee that kicked off the panel’s probe into matters relating to the late sex offender — an interview that fueled Republican defenses of President Trump while leaving the panel’s Democrats hoping to call additional witnesses.

Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the panel’s chair who was present for the first hours of the deposition, told reporters that Barr testified that he did not know of any information that would implicate President Trump.

“What Attorney General Barr testified in there was that he never had conversations with President Trump pertaining to a client list,” Comer said. “He didn’t know anything about a client list. He said that he had never seen anything that would implicate President Trump in any of this, and that he believed...