Bill Clinton apparently isn’t much of an email guy.
In a deposition last Friday before the House Oversight Committee, the former president said he could recall sending only two emails in his entire life.
He said he sent an email to former US senator John Glenn when the former NASA astronaut was “in space at age 77” and an email to US military members aboard a ship in the Adriatic Sea during the Kosovo War.
“Since then, I’m not sure I’ve sent one,” Clinton said.
A spokesperson for Clinton told the Wall Street Journal in 2015 that the former president does not use email himself and instead relies on staff.
That came amid the height of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email scandal, in which she used a private email server for official communications.
The former president is in a distinct minority when it comes to email use. A 2011 Pew Research survey found that 92% of internet-using adults use email, and 61% do so on an average day. Pew found in 2025 that 96% of American adults use the internet.
Some business executives, like JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett, are known to use email sparingly, relying instead of staff to send emails for them.
Clinton later appeared to start making a self-deprecating joke about his lack of email use in the deposition, before trailing off: “I know that makes me a certified…”
The former president was deposed as part of the House Oversight Committee’s ongoing investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
Clinton’s email use came up when Republican Rep. Eric Burlison of Missouri asked the former president about an October 2001 email released as part of the Epstein Files Transparency Act between Doug Band, one of Clinton’s former assistants, and Ghislaine Maxwell.
In the email, Band refers to an email address — [email protected] — as the president’s. But Clinton said he never sent or received any emails from that address.
“I think Doug thought it would increase his… cachet if he had an email with WJC on it,” Clinton said in the deposition.
Clinton also said he didn’t “think” he had a phone at that point in time, despite Band saying in the email that he shared a BlackBerry with the former president.
Despite not using email, Clinton doesn’t seem to be a complete Luddite — the former president can be seen wearing an Apple Watch during the deposition.
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