Hillary Clinton has accused the Trump’s administration of a “cover-up” over its handling of files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“Get the files out. They are slow-walking it,” the former US secretary of state told the BBC in Berlin, where she attended the annual World Forum.
The White House insisted that by releasing the files, they had done “more for the victims than Democrats ever have”.
Millions of new files relating to the late sex offender Epstein were released by the US Department of Justice earlier this month.
At the time, the deputy attorney general said three million pages were not released due to the existence of personal medical files, graphic depictions of child abuse, or other material that would jeopardise investigations.
When asked whether Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor should go before a congressional committee, Hillary Clinton said: “I think everybody should testify who is asked to testify.”
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Appearing in the files is not an indication of wrongdoing. Andrew has always denied any wrongdoing.
The committee does not have the power to compel him to appear, but it put pressure on the Clintons to do so, which they agreed to last month.
Bill Clinton will make his appearance on February 27, and Hillary Clinton will appear the day before.
A planned vote to hold the Clintons in contempt of Congress for initially refusing to appear was shelved after the pair agreed to testify.
It will be the first time a former US president has testified to a congressional panel since Gerald Ford did so in 1983.
Hillary Clinton reiterated the couple’s call for their congressional committee hearing to be in public rather than a closed-door deposition.
“We will show up, but we think it would be better to have it in public,” Hillary Clinton told the BBC.
Republican committee chair James Comer had accused the Clintons of “delay”, saying the pair “caved” as a contempt vote loomed.
“I just want it to be fair,” said Hillary Clinton. “I want everybody treated the same way.
“We have nothing to hide. We have called for the full release of these files repeatedly. We think sunlight is the best disinfectant.”
The former presidential candidate argued that she and her husband were being used to divert attention away from Trump.
“Look at this shiny object. We’re going to have the Clintons, even Hillary Clinton, who never met the guy.”
Hillary Clinton said she had met Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s convicted associate, “on a few occasions.”
Bill Clinton, who was featured in the Epstein files, was acquainted with Epstein but said he cut off contact two decades ago.
Neither Clinton has been accused of wrongdoing by survivors of Epstein’s abuse, and both have denied knowledge of his sex offending at the time.
The millions of new files relating to Epstein that were made public by the US justice department earlier this month, after Congress passed a law requiring the agency to release material related to investigations of Epstein.
