Former Attorney General Bill Barr answered questions about Jeffrey Epstein in a Monday deposition with the House Oversight Committee that kicked off the panel’s probe into matters relating to the late sex offender — an interview that fueled Republican defenses of President Trump while leaving the panel’s Democrats hoping to call additional witnesses.

Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the panel’s chair who was present for the first hours of the deposition, told reporters that Barr testified that he did not know of any information that would implicate President Trump.

“What Attorney General Barr testified in there was that he never had conversations with President Trump pertaining to a client list,” Comer said. “He didn't know anything about a client list. He said that he had never seen anything that would implicate President Trump in any of this, and that he believed if there had been anything pertaining to President Trump with respect to the Epstein list, that he felt like the Biden administration would have probably leaked it out.”

Asked about reporting from the Wall Street Journal that Attorney General Pam Bondi had told Trump that he was mentioned in the Epstein files, Comer said Barr talked about how “you go over everyone that you've ever been in communication with, or whatever, that doesn't implicate you, as far as being guilty.”

Democrats on the panel who sat in on the deposition, meanwhile, asserted that they were taking the investigation more seriously than the Republicans.

“I think the Democratic side is doing most of the heavy lifting. I don't think we're learning much from........

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