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For political connoisseurs of a certain vintage, it feels like deja vu all over again.

To anyone who witnessed Bill Clinton’s presidency in the 1990s, the once unimaginable spectacle of a sitting president testifying under oath over sexual misconduct allegations levelled on a wave of Republican antipathy became so familiar as to seem almost routine.

Clinton gave sworn testimony twice in 1998, each occasion filmed for posterity: first in a suit filed by Paula Jones, an Arkansas state employee who accused him of sexually harassing her; then to a grand jury over the nature of his affair with Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern.

This week, a re-enactment of those half-forgotten ancient political battles will play out when the former president and his wife, Hillary, give depositions under oath to the House of Representatives’ oversight committee on the Jeffrey Epstein files.