My apologies.

I thought about taking down the posts I published recently that purported to be about Senate hearings that had Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana grilling Hillary Clinton. The posts are fakes, much as I wanted to believe them when first viewed.

A Radiopatriot reader clued me in to that fact, so I checked it out on GROK. Here’s the result:

No. There was no congressional hearing in which Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) and Hillary Clinton both participated or confronted each other.

Claims circulating online (especially in late 2025) that Kennedy argued with, embarrassed, or silenced Clinton during a Senate hearing are false. Fact-checkers, including Snopes, found no evidence of any such event, no news reports of Clinton testifying before a Senate committee around that time in connection with Kennedy, and confirmed the stories were fabricated (often for engagement or ad revenue).

Relevant background

• Hillary Clinton testified before Congress multiple times, most notably:
  • Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the Benghazi attacks (January 23, 2013).
  • House Select Committee on Benghazi (October 22, 2015, a lengthy hearing).
• Senator John Neely Kennedy of Louisiana was first elected to the Senate in 2016 and took office in January 2017. He was not a member of Congress during Clinton’s major Benghazi testimonies.
• The two have publicly criticized each other at times (e.g., Clinton responded to Kennedy’s comments on Ukraine and the 2016 election in 2019), but this occurred via media statements or social media, not in a joint hearing.
• Kennedy has questioned witnesses in various Senate hearings (Judiciary, etc.) and has referenced Clinton-related topics (e.g., campaign associates or emails) while questioning others, but Clinton herself was not present as a witness in those settings with him.

In short, no such joint congressional hearing occurred. Recent viral stories claiming otherwise are fabricated.