Bill Clinton responds to questions about hot tub photo
About halfway through his deposition, Bill Clinton is asked about a photo released by the US justice department showing him in a hot tub.
The congressman asking the question says the public is interested in knowing the “context” and “details” of the photo.
“I don’t think I ever knew the photo was taken,” begins Clinton.
He says he’s “almost sure” the photo was taken in Brunei, at the end of a “long” trip across Asia.
“The Sultan of Brunei was a man I had gotten to know well in my eight years as president,” Clinton recalls.
He adds that the Asian leader wanted to help with the Clinton Global Initative, his international development foundation, and suggested a hotel for him to stay in while he was visiting.
He said “I want you to stay at this hotel and I hope you will use the pool. So I did. And then I got out, and went to bed, exhausted”, Clinton says with a chuckle.
Asked about another person in the photo, whose identity is edited out by the justice department, Clinton twice says: “I don’t know who that is.”
He adds that there were other people in the nearby pool, which was adjacent to the hot tub, and that they were all part of his travelling party, and that no children were present.
“I sat in the hot tub for five minutes, or whatever it was, and I got up and went to bed,” he says.
Asked by the congressman whether any sexual activity occurred that night, he responds no.
