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March 3, 2026

Viral Video Appears to Show Kuwaiti Rescuing Grateful US Pilot Downed by Friendly Fire

Three U.S. F-15E Strike Eagles flying in support of Operation Epic Fury went down in what is being described as a friendly fire incident. Kuwaiti air defenses reportedly shot them down accidentally, but all six aircrew managed to eject safely, have been recovered, and are in stable condition. 

Multiple reports indicate that at least some of the pilots were rescued by grateful Kuwaitis: There will be investigations into what happened, but our servicemembers are fine, and that’s what’s important.

Clinton deposition videos reveal table-pounding Hillary and trembling Bill in Epstein testimony before House Oversight

The House Oversight Committee has released hours of deposition footage showing both Bill and Hillary Clinton testifying about their ties to Jeffrey Epstein, and the videos deliver exactly the kind of drama the Clintons have spent decades trying to manage out of public view.

The footage, totaling more than nine combined hours, amounts to the most significant forced accounting the Clintons have faced on the Epstein matter.

The depositions took place last week at the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center after the Clintons initially refused to testify. Back in August, the Oversight panel had subpoenaed the Clintons and eight others. Several Democrats joined Republicans in advancing a contempt of Congress measure against them before the couple finally agreed to sit.

That sequence matters. The Clintons did not volunteer transparency. They had to be dragged to it, and even then, they came swinging.

Hillary’s four-and-a-half hours of defiance

The 4-hour and 35-minute video of Hillary Clinton’s deposition features what can only be described as a former Secretary of State treating congressional oversight like an imposition beneath her. Early in the proceeding, Rep. Lauren Boebert snapped an unsanctioned photo of Clinton, which appeared online and set off a confrontation. Clinton pounded the table with her fist and started to leave.

“I am done with this if you guys are doing this, I’m done.”

The deposition went off the record. She ultimately returned, but the tone was set. Clinton later dared the committee to hold her accountable:

“You can hold me in contempt from now until the cows come home.”

Boebert later copped to taking the photo but claimed to have done so before the hearing kicked off. Regardless, the moment crystallized something familiar about Clinton’s relationship with accountability: she treats every question as an attack and every procedure as a conspiracy.

Pizzagate, Mace, and the art of deflection

Boebert pressed Clinton on the Epstein files and coded language in the Pizzagate conspiracy theory. Clinton fired back, calling the 2016 conspiracy “totally made up” and “an outrageous allegation” that “ended up hurting a number of people.” She referenced the shooting at Comet Ping Pong in DC in 2016:

“It caused a deranged young man to show up with an assault rifle and shoot up a local pizzeria.”

Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina needled Clinton repeatedly, referencing an Epstein file email about now-Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick inviting the disgraced financier to a Clinton campaign fundraiser in 2015. Clinton explained that she became connected with Lutnick because, while serving as senator from New York, he lost scores of his employees in the September 11, 2001 attacks.

“This is what I spent my time doing…I was taking care of the people that lost 3,000 lives at World Trade Center.”

When Mace seemingly implied Clinton wasn’t being honest and attempted to cut off her explanation, the exchange escalated. Mace also brought up her status as a survivor of sexual abuse. Clinton responded by expressing sympathy:

“I have read about it, I have seen you testify or speak on the floor about it, and I am very much sympathetic with not only what you went through, but appreciate your standing up for survivors.”

It was the closest Clinton came to sounding like a person instead of a litigant. The moment passed quickly.

Clinton also revealed publicly for the first time why Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s accomplice, attended Chelsea Clinton’s 2010 wedding. She described Maxwell as a “guest of someone who was invited.” A neat formulation. Someone invited Epstein’s right hand to a Clinton family wedding, and Hillary Clinton wants you to know it wasn’t her problem.

Bill Clinton: Memory lapses and a birthday note

The 4-hour and 33-minute video of Bill Clinton’s deposition paints a picture of a 79-year-old former president navigating questions about a dead sex trafficker with the careful imprecision that has defined his public life for three decades. His hands shook throughout the testimony. His answers were cooperative in tone but surgically vague in substance.

Clinton denied “any communications with Mr Epstein that related to young women or girls.” He acknowledged flying on Epstein’s infamous plane, placing his first memory of Epstein around 2002, when he boarded for a foundation trip.

“I took one flight back from Florida to New York and all or part of several other, I think 4 or 5, trips to Africa, Asia and one to Northern Europe.”

He described his interactions with Epstein as occurring “usually only on the trips” and said he “paid a brief visit” to Epstein’s mansion on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. He said Epstein visited the Clinton Foundation’s Harlem office at least once.

Then there was the photo. Bill Clinton was asked about an image showing him in a hot tub at a lavish hotel in Brunei. His explanation involved the Sultan of Brunei, whom he said he had “gotten to know well.” The Sultan, according to Clinton, told him to stay at a hotel and use the pool. Clinton said Ghislaine Maxwell and his AIDS initiative team were also present.

“I had forgotten that there was anybody in the hot tub.”

He said he could not identify the woman in the photo. The former president of the United States sat in a hot tub at a luxury hotel in Brunei with Epstein’s inner circle present and forgot the details. That is the testimony.

A note for Epstein’s birthday book

Perhaps the most remarkable moment came when Clinton read aloud a note he had submitted to Ghislaine Maxwell for inclusion in a 50th birthday book for Epstein. The note praised Epstein’s “childlike curiosity, the drive to make a difference, and the wealth of friends.”

Clinton’s assessment of his own writing: “Not a bad letter.”

When pressed on whether he knew anything about Epstein’s crimes, he responded flatly:

“Absolutely not. I knew nothing about that.”

He added that he “thought Epstein was interesting and curious” and wrote a letter reflecting that. A former president contributed a glowing character tribute to a man who would later be exposed as one of the most prolific sex traffickers in modern history. Clinton found this unremarkable.

Clinton, to his credit, acknowledged the committee’s right to question him:

“I do think you should be talking to me. I think you should have called me. I did take those plane trips with him and you have a right to ask those questions.”

He also invoked age and memory:

“I have to be honest with you, you know, I’ll be 80-years-old if I live to my next birthday – I don’t remember everything that happened 24 years ago.”

The Clintons had previously accused Committee Chairman James Comer of “trying to punish those who you see as your enemies” in a January letter. That framing tells you everything about how the Clinton machine processes oversight. Subpoenas aren’t institutional checks. They’re personal vendettas. Depositions aren’t fact-finding. They’re persecution.

Democrats already pivoting

Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the Oversight panel, wasted no time turning the proceedings into a political weapon aimed elsewhere. He spoke to reporters during Hillary’s deposition last week:

“This committee has now set a new precedent about talking to presidents and former presidents.”

The deflection is reflexive at this point. The committee releases footage of two Clintons struggling to explain their entanglement with a convicted sex trafficker, and the Democratic response is to demand that someone else sit in the chair. Not accountability. Counter-programming.

President Trump responded to reporters about the subpoena fight with characteristic directness:

“I like Bill Clinton. I don’t like seeing him deposed… But they certainly went after me a lot more than that.”

Bill Clinton himself testified about a conversation with Trump at a charity golf tournament in New York, in which Trump referenced knowing Clinton had flown on Epstein’s aircraft. According to Clinton, Trump described their own falling out over a real estate deal and said he was sorry it happened.

Strip away the partisan maneuvering, the photo controversy, and the procedural theatrics, and what remains is straightforward. Two of the most powerful people in modern American politics maintained a social relationship with a man who ran a sex trafficking operation. They flew on his plane. They attended events where his accomplice was present. They contributed to his birthday book. They invited his associate to their daughter’s wedding.

And when Congress finally compelled them to answer for it, one pounded the table and threatened to leave. The other couldn’t remember.

A Royal Family Exposed: Ex-Prince Andrew’s Arrest and the Mounting Fallout for Sarah Ferguson, Beatrice and Eugenie 

Andrew’s arrest has revealed a family shielded by privilege, putting Sarah Ferguson under scrutiny and raising questions about Beatrice and Eugenie’s future

 

 

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