WASHINGTON (TNND) — Republican-led House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer announced on Wednesday that he will move forward with contempt of Congress proceedings against former President Bill Clinton after he defied a congressional subpoena for a Jeffrey Epstein deposition.
The committee warned Hillary Clinton that if she doesn’t show up for her deposition on Wednesday morning, she will “face the same fate.”
“Not a single Democrat showed up today. Not a single Democrat—the ones who have press conferences on the Capitol steps and talk about how they’re trying to get justice for the victims and all that. It just seems like they only care about questioning Republicans,” Comer said in remarks. “And we’ve had a former cabinet secretary, [Alex] Acosta, in for a grilling. We had Bill Barr, former attorney general, in for a grilling. But for whatever reason, President Clinton didn’t show up, and the Democrats on the committee don’t seem to have a problem.”
Ahead of the hearing, Bill and Hillary made clear they had no intentions of being questioned by Comer and submitted an eight-page legal letter stating “it is clear the subpoenas themselves – and any subsequent attempt to enforce them – are nothing more than a ploy to attempt to embarrass political rivals, as President Trump has directed.”
The Clintons also accused Comer in a lengthy letter of being “on the cusp of bringing Congress to a halt to pursue a rarely used process literally designed to result in our imprisonment.”
Comer responded to the Clintons’ refusal to attend the hearing by sharing photos of Bill Clinton from the Epstein files and saying, “Epstein’s survivors deserve justice and answers.”
In anticipation of being held in contempt, the Clintons said they expected Comer to “release irrelevant, decades-old photos that you hope will embarrass us.”
Images from Epstein’s estate released in December by House Oversight Democrats included images of Bill Clinton and President Donald Trump, as well as Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, political strategist Steve Bannon, and British investor Richard Branson.
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The photos of Bill Clinton renewed scrutiny of the personal scandals that marred his career and led to his impeachment, but that didn’t stop him from demanding that the Justice Department release the remaining documents, claiming he needed no protection.
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