Home Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) on Wednesday urged former President Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to adjust to a subpoena requesting their testimony detailing their connection to convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“If somebody does not adjust to a subpoena, we have seen it occur prior to now, in each my committee, in addition to on the Jan. 6 committee, when the Democrats had the bulk, and you may maintain them in contempt of Congress, and with a Republican lawyer normal, that is one thing that I believe that the Clinton authorized staff goes to assume lengthy and exhausting about,” Comer mentioned throughout an look on NewsNation’s “The Hill.”
“You are not going to have a variety of sympathy, most likely from the Trump DOJ, if the Clintons didn’t adjust to a bipartisan, congressionally authorized subpoena, which is what that was,” he added.
Comer mentioned bipartisan assist goes to make it exhausting for the previous president to dodge the congressional investigation.
“Clearly, once you subpoena a former president, your odds aren’t the very best at getting them in when you have a look at historical past. However what makes this totally different is that this subpoena was authorized in a bipartisan method by a subcommittee vote,” the chair advised anchor Blake Burman.
“So that you had Democrats and Republicans on the document voting to subpoena that entire listing you confirmed and there have been Republicans and Democrats on that listing. Along with these subpoenas, I additionally subpoenaed [Attorney General] Pam Bondi for Epstein recordsdata,” he continued.
In current weeks, the Trump administration has been dealing with intense backlash over the way it has dealt with data associated to Epstein, the convicted intercourse offender who died in 2019. The backlash has come from each MAGA trustworthy and left-wing progressives.
Comer has taken the lead in a prolonged committee-led investigation.
The Kentucky lawmaker advised Burman that “on the finish of the day, I have been ordered by Congress to take the lead on this investigation, and we count on to get all the things that we may legally get.”