Hillary Clinton has accused US President Donald Trump's administration of a "cover-up" in its handling of files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
"Bring out the files. They're moving slowly," the former US secretary of state told the BBC in Berlin, where she attended the annual World Forum, reports Telegraph.
The White House insisted that by releasing the files they had done "more for the victims than Democrats have ever done."
When asked whether Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor should appear before a congressional committee, Hillary Clinton said: "I think everyone who is asked to testify should testify."
The filing is not an indication of wrongdoing. Andrew has always denied any wrongdoing.
The Clintons are due to appear before a congressional committee. Bill Clinton will appear on February 27th 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 postponed after the pair agreed to testify.
It will be the first time a former US president has testified before a congressional panel since Gerald Ford did so in 1983.
Bill Clinton - who has appeared several times in the Epstein files - was acquainted with Epstein, but says he cut off contact two decades ago.
Neither Clinton has been accused of wrongdoing by survivors of Epstein's abuse, and both have denied being aware of his sexual offending at the time.
Millions of new files related to Epstein were made public by the US Justice Department earlier this month, after Congress passed a law requiring the agency to release materials related to the Epstein investigation.
The Justice Department has now said it has released all the files required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act, but lawmakers have argued that the release is insufficient.
Kentucky Republican Representative Thomas Massie, who co-authored the law, called for the Justice Department to also release internal memos describing past decisions on whether to charge Epstein and his associates.
Epstein died in a New York jail cell on August 10, 2019, while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges without the possibility of parole. This came more than a decade after his conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor, for which he registered as a sex offender.
Andrew, the former prince, has faced increasing pressure from US officials and the family of his prominent accuser Virginia Giuffre to testify before the House Oversight Committee about his ties to Epstein.
Andrew has consistently denied any wrongdoing and reached an out-of-court settlement with Giuffre in 2022 that contained no admission of liability. Giuffre died by suicide in 2025.
The Clintons have requested that their congressional committee hearing be public instead of a closed-door testimony.
"We will come forward, but we think it would be better to do it publicly," Hillary Clinton told the BBC.
Republican committee chairman James Comer had accused the Clintons of "delay," saying the pair "gave up" as a contempt vote loomed.
"I just want it to be fair. I want everyone to be treated the same way," Hillary Clinton said.
"We have nothing to hide. We have consistently called for the full publication of these files. We believe that sunlight is the best disinfectant," she added.
The former presidential candidate argued that she and her husband were being used to distract from Trump.
"Look at this shiny object. We're going to have the Clintons, even Hillary Clinton, who's never met that guy," Hillary said.
He also stressed that he had met with Ghislaine Maxwell - Epstein's convicted associate - "several times".
Trump - who is mentioned hundreds of times in the Epstein dossiers - has consistently denied any wrongdoing in connection with Epstein, with whom he says he cut off contact decades ago, and has not been accused of any crimes by Epstein's victims.
When asked about Hillary Clinton's comments in the interview, Trump told the BBC that he had nothing to hide.
"I have been cleared of all charges. I had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. They went in hoping they would find him, and they found exactly the opposite," he said aboard Air Force One.
"They are getting involved. And that's their problem... Clinton and many other Democrats are getting involved," he added. /Telegraph/
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