As you probably heard, it didn’t take long for Hillary Clinton’s Congressional testimony about Jeffrey Epstein to hit a snag.
Of course, her lawyers threw a tantrum, immediately shutting things down.
The fuss started when a photo of Hillary showed up on social media barely an hour into the proceedings.
And Hillary was obviously not having a good day, judging by her expression.
But the REAL fireworks came later, as I teased in the headline.
The image itself wasn’t anything incredibly shocking — we’ve all seen Hillary Clinton’s sour face a thousand times before. (Full body shiver…)
But the fact that popular conservative X podcaster Benny Johnson was the ‘source’ of the image from inside the CLOSED-DOOR testimony didn’t go over well with everyone.
Mostly… it didn’t go over well with Democrats.
Here’s the photo at the center of the controversy, shared by Johnson.
Along with the proper accrediting of Rep. Lauren Boebert for supplying the image:
🚨BREAKING: The first image of Hillary Clinton testifying under oath about Jeffery Epstein to the Republican Oversight Committee.
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 26, 2026
This is the first time Hillary has had to answer real questions about Epstein. Clinton does not look happy.
Photo provided by Rep. Lauren Boebert. pic.twitter.com/mPtUyA4u5i
As a public service announcement, I’ll go ahead and include both Benny Johnson and Rep. Boebert’s official “I did not kill myself” statements.
Considering the Clinton track record, I don’t blame either of them for reiterating their current mental state:
And I did not hang myself in my hotel room later tonight.
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) February 26, 2026
But possibly the most controversial quote of the day didn’t come from Clinton — even though she swore (under oath) that she never even met Epstein. (???)
Who knows where that statement might lead, as the investigation continues?
But let’s be honest. We all expected that answer.
Rep. Lauren Boebert, on the other hand, didn’t try to put up a denial…
She didn’t attempt to morally justify her actions of leaking the photo of Clinton…
And she didn’t REALLY even try to give an “excuse” for doing so.
When asked by a reporter why she did it, she answered with a very frank, “Why not?”
Here’s a clip of that EPIC MOMENT captured by Fox News’ cameras:
REPORTER: “Why did you send the picture?”
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 26, 2026
BOEBERT: “Why not?!”
Legend 🤣
pic.twitter.com/atArf2GsNe
Pushed later for a more involved answer, she simply said that Benny Johnson had done nothing wrong by sharing the photo.
And then she took a tongue-in-cheek swipe at the haters, commenting that “no Ambassadors” came to any harm as a result of sharing the photo, as reported by Newsweek:
Representative Lauren Boebert took to social media Thursday afternoon to defend a photo she took of the closed-door deposition of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and sent to podcaster Benny Johnson.
Boebert, a Colorado Republican, told reporters outside the House Oversight Committee hearing that she was not reprimanded for the photos she took, before posting on X that Johnson had done nothing wrong by sharing the image.
“No U.S. Ambassadors were harmed in the taking of today’s photo,” she said in another post, appearing to seek to poke fun at the outrage over the image, which led to a pause in proceedings.
The closed-door depositions in Chappaqua, New York, the hometown of Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton, come after months of tense back-and-forth between the high-powered Democratic couple and the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee. It will be the first time that a former president has been forced to testify before Congress.
Hillary Clinton was testifying in a House investigation into Epstein, who visited Bill Clinton at the White House multiple times in the 1990s, according to visitor logs. After he left office, the former president flew multiple times on Epstein’s private jet.
Hillary Clinton told lawmakers that she does not recall ever encountering Jeffrey Epstein in a closed-door deposition to the House Oversight Committee on Thursday. (Emphasis added.)
As you would expect, Democrats were livid.
But as others began pointing out on social media, if Rep. Lauren Boebert wound up in trouble for taking and leaking that photo…
What should happen to Rep. Stacey Plaskett?
Shout out to the always informative MJTruthUltra on X.com for this nugget a few months ago.
He pointed out that Democrat Rep. Plaskett was ‘ACTIVELY TEXTING’ with Jeffrey Epstein while the Democrats were going after President Trump in a Congressional hearing!
Check this out:
HOLEE SHYT‼️
— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) November 18, 2025
Jeffrey Epstein was ACTIVELY TEXTING House Democrats during the Cohen Hearing according to Document’s
Democrat Stacey Plaskett was identified as one of those individuals. These communications appear to influenced her questions to Trump’s attorneys.
Follow along… https://t.co/YNTtXNP80G pic.twitter.com/Ul47pphSyd
Here’s a full screen version of that clip for convenience:
That’s Jeffrey Epstein “colluding” — see what I did there? — with Congressional Democrats to influence the proceedings against President Trump in REAL TIME!
And yet, somehow, Democrats have lost their mind over Rep. Boebert’s “leak” of a photo of Clinton…
From a hearing that is SET TO BE RELEASED PUBLICLY, anyway?
Yeah — get over it.
But true to form, the Democrats had Clinton’s back — as has been reported by The Hill:
Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee tore into Republicans on the panel after Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) leaked a photo from inside former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s deposition on Thursday.
Ranking member Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) said Clinton, who said she did not recall ever meeting Epstein, was “completely cooperating with the deposition and the committee” and “answering questions in full faith and in good faith.”
“What is not acceptable is Oversight Republicans breaking their own committee rules that they established with the Secretary and her team,” Garcia said in statements to the press during a break in the deposition. “It was gracious of the Secretary and her team to continue the deposition.”
“We are sitting through an incredibly unserious clown show of a deposition where members of Congress and the Republican Party are more concerned about getting their photo op of Secretary Clinton than actually getting to the truth and holding anyone accountable,” Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.) said.
Asked about the photo when returning to the deposition after a break, Boebert made a reference to the FBI’s investigation into a private email server Clinton used while secretary of State, which dominated the final stretch of her 2016 presidential campaign.
“I just returned to my hotel room and installed the BleachBit software … So, I guess in regards to taking photos, I do not recall,” Boebert quipped. (Emphasis added.)
If you noticed the section I highlighted in bold text from that article, you might wonder what “BleachBit software” is.
Then again, knowing our readers…
You’ll probably get that not-so-subtle dig at Hillary right off the bat.
BleachBit was reportedly the software used to wipe Hillary’s emails from her “secret” server, apparently in an attempt to cover up communications related to the 2012 Benghazi attack.
Well played, Boebert — well played, indeed.
Meanwhile, the Democrats are still more upset with a soon-to-be-released image of Hillary getting out into the public space early…
Than they are about the growing evidence that the Clinton’s were intimately involved with Jeffrey Epstein.
