Hillary Clinton comes out swinging after GOP grilled her during marathon Epstein deposition

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wasted no time criticizing Republicans after she ended a roughly six-hour grilling in the House Oversight Committee's Jeffrey Epstein probe on Thursday evening. Clinton told reporters she answered questions "repetitively, literally over and over again" after blasting Republicans for holding a closed-door deposition instead of a public hearing. She said, however, that she would not testify again if there was a public hearing, telling reporters, "They had a chance to do it in public and I wish they had done it in public. And I think they're making the wrong decision, avoiding doing it in public." "It then got, at the end, quite unusual because I started being asked about UFOs and a series of questions about Pizzagate — one of the most vile, bogus conspiracy theories that was propagated on the internet — that was serving as the basis of a member's questions to me," Clinton said. REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK: CLINTONS CALL FOR OPEN EPSTEIN FILES HEARING AFTER MONTHS OF DEFYING SUBPOENAS She also knocked Republican lawmakers for not attending the deposition of former Victoria's Secret CEO Leslie Wexner in person. Clinton did save praise for House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., however, "for raising a series of significant questions that I responded to about the nature of the investigation, and the areas that I thought should be explored." "So I appreciated that. I want to see the truth come out. So that was a reassuring way to end a very long, repetitive, deposition," Clinton said. She also reiterated comments from her opening statement that she did not know Epstein, and said she only knew Ghislaine Maxwell "as an acquaintance." When asked why Maxwell was invited to her daughter, Chelsea Clinton's wedding, however, Clinton said she was a "plus one of someone invited." Clinton's deposition began in the 11 a.m. hour and wrapped in the 5 p.m. hour in her hometown of Chappaqua, New York. Comer said afterward that Clinton "a…