WATCH: Coomer says Ghislaine Maxwell refused to answer questions about Epstein in House deposition

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, declined to answer questions from House lawmakers in her filing Monday, but indicated that if President Donald Trump finishes her prison sentence, she is willing to testify that neither he nor former President Bill Clinton did anything wrong in their relationships with Epstein.

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The House Oversight Committee wanted Maxwell to answer questions during a video call to a federal prison camp in Texas, where she is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking, but she invoked her Fifth Amendment rights to avoid answering questions that would incriminate herself. It has come under new scrutiny as lawmakers try to investigate how Epstein, a well-connected financier, was able to sexually abuse underage girls for years.

Amid a reckoning over Epstein’s abuse that has spanned countries around the world, lawmakers are searching for anyone who was connected to Epstein and may have facilitated his abuse. So far, these revelations have shown how Trump and Clinton spent time with Epstein in the 1990s and early 2000s, but they have not been credibly accused of wrongdoing.

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During Monday’s closed-door filing, Maxwell’s lawyer told lawmakers that if Trump granted her clemency, she would be willing to testify that neither Trump nor former President Bill Clinton is responsible for any wrongdoing in their ties to Epstein, according to both Democratic and Republican lawmakers who emerged from the closed-door meeting.

Democrats said it was a brazen effort by Maxwell to get Trump to finish her prison sentence.

“It’s very clear that she’s campaigning for clemency,” said Rep. Melanie Stansbury, a New Mexico Democrat.

Another Democrat, Rep. Suhas Subramaniam, called Maxwell’s behavior during the brief video call “robotic” and “unrepentant.”

Trump has not ruled out granting clemency to Maxwell, but Republican pushback on the idea quickly rose after Maxwell filed the appeal.

“No pardon. You comply or face punishment,” Republican Rep. Ana Paulina Luna wrote on social media. “You deserve justice for what you did, you monster.”

Maxwell is seeking to have her conviction overturned, arguing that she was wrongly convicted. The Supreme Court rejected her appeal last year, but in December she asked a federal judge in New York to consider what her lawyers described as “substantial new evidence” that her trial was tainted by constitutional violations.

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Maxwell’s attorney cited that petition when telling lawmakers she would invoke her Fifth Amendment rights.

The committee’s Republican chairman, Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, told reporters it was “extremely disappointing” that Maxwell declined to participate in the deposition.

Family members of the late Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s most outspoken victims, also issued a letter to Maxwell clarifying that they do not consider her a “bystander” to Epstein’s abuse.

“You were a central and intentional player in a system designed to find, isolate, groom, and deliver children for abuse,” Skye and Amanda Roberts wrote in the letter to Maxwell.

Maxwell was transferred from a federal prison in Florida to a low-security prison camp in Texas last summer after she participated in two days of interviews with Deputy District Attorney Todd Blanche.

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Comer had also asked her for a subpoena at the time, but her attorneys consistently told the committee that she would not answer questions. However, Comer was pressured to postpone the briefing, as he pressed the committee to enforce subpoenas on Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. After Comer threatened them with contempt of Congress charges, they agreed to sit for depositions later this month.

Coomer had been haggling with the Clintons over whether that testimony should be held in a public hearing, but Coomer confirmed Monday that he would insist on closed depositions and then release the transcripts and videos later.

Meanwhile, several lawmakers also planned Monday to look into unredacted versions of files on Epstein that the Justice Department released to comply with the law passed by Congress last year.