WASHINGTON — White House senior trade and manufacturing counselor Peter Navarro is slamming Bill Clinton’s decision to dodge a deposition about his relationship with deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, as congressional Republicans seek to jail the former president and his wife, Hillary.

The 42nd president and ex-secretary of state were both compelled to appear before the House Oversight Committee last week — but declined to sit for questions. Instead, the former first couple sent a letter providing written declarations denying all knowledge of Epstein’s heinous sex crimes.

Republicans on the committee, led by Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), moved Wednesday to hold Bill and Hillary Clinton in contempt over their refusal to testify.

Navarro was jailed for several months in 2024 after House Democrats held him in contempt for refusing to testify to the select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot — despite Navarro claiming that he could not answer questions due to Trump invoking executive privilege.

“The difference with Clinton is no executive privilege was invoked, and he’s facing a duly authorized committee,” Navarro said. “If he gets a subpoena, he has to come. Full stop.”

Former Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon also declined to testify before the Democrat-led panel, and both he and Navarro served four months in federal prisons.

“Clinton can’t argue — as [Steve] Bannon did correctly — that the committee was illegally formed and therefore the subpoena was illegal,” Navarro explained.

In an interview with The Post on Tuesday, the trade adviser also said that — unlike the Oversight panel — the January 6th Committee was not duly organized since it lacked a ranking member chosen by House Republican leadership.

Navarro called his prosecution and eventual imprisonment “the purest expression of the weaponization of the justice system” of the Biden administration’s targeting of Trump and his advisers.

A report on the Clinton contempt resolutions noted the former president’s attorney raised “separation-of-powers concerns,” but the Oversight panel was “primarily concerned with his time as a private citizen, and any potential issues of executive privilege or otherwise could have been raised on a question-by-question basis during a deposition.”

The Clintons, in a Jan. 13 letter, accused Comer and Oversight Republicans of “trying to punish those who you see as your enemies and to protect those you think are your friends” and claimed the subpoenas were “invalid and legally unenforceable.”

The eight-page letter was also accompanied by written declarations, in which Bill Clinton testified: “I do not recall speaking to Mr. Epstein for more than a decade prior to his 2019 arrest.”

Despite using Epstein’s private jet around two dozen times in the early 2000s, the former president stated the flights were for “philanthropic and life-saving humanitarian efforts.”

Photos put out by Trump’s DOJ last month show Bill Clinton lounging in a jacuzzi half-naked and posing in pictures with women whose faces are redacted — suggesting they were victimized by Epstein and Maxwell.

The Clintons, in their letter, called the disclosures “irrelevant, decades-old photos that you hope will embarrass us,” though a former aide to the 42nd president called the images “his reckoning.”

Oversight Republicans — and some Democrats — could pass resolutions out of committee later Wednesday holding the Clintons in contempt and referring their potential prosecution to the Department of Justice.

From there, the resolutions will go to the full House for approval.

“If you want to go down the path,” Rep. Dan Meuser (R-Pa.) said of the former first couple, “good luck in prison.”

“Are they above the law? Hell no,” added Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.).

“They’re going to be held in contempt of Congress, and they need to be jailed if they don’t come in here and speak to Congress,” Van Orden said. “They are not special. They’re American citizens.”

If the resolutions pass the House, the DOJ will decide whether to prosecute Bill and Hillary Clinton, likely prompting years of legal battles if Navarro’s case is any indication.

House Democrats passed the contempt resolution against Navarro on April 6, 2022, and he was eventually sentenced on Sept. 7, 2023.

DC US District Court Judge Amit Mehta had ruled the month before that the president had made “no formal invocation of executive privilege” and ordered Navarro to stand trial.

Navarro, now 76, reported to federal prison on March 19, 2024, and was released that July 17 — traveling to Milwaukee to address the Republican National Convention hours after being sprung.