I guess they don’t have many House Democratic friendsto fight for them?
Several House Democrats voted with the Republicans to compel the Clintons to show up, or else…
Former President Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have agreed to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee as part of the panel’s investigation into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The news marks a stunning about-face that came after months of negotiations and as the House Rules Committee was preparing to tee up floor votes on potentially holding the two in contempt of Congress. The House Oversight Committee voted last month to advance the contempt resolutions.
“They negotiated in good faith. You did not. They told you under oath what they know, but you don’t care,” Clinton spokesperson Angel Ureña wrote on the social platform X in response to a post from Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.). “But the former President and former Secretary of State will be there. They look forward to setting a precedent that applies to everyone.”
Comer appeared to learn the news in real time during the Rules Committee meeting on Monday.
The moment got heated, with Democrats demanding to know whether the panel would move forward with the contempt resolution and Comer responding that he hadn’t yet seen the letter from the Clintons’ lawyers and would need to review it….
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Comer has been targeting the Clintons for months, urging them in August to comply with a subpoena asking for their testimony on their link to Epstein.
“If someone doesn’t comply with a subpoena — we’ve seen it happen in the past, in both my committee, as well as on the Jan. 6 committee, when the Democrats had the majority — and you can hold them in contempt of Congress. And with a Republican attorney general, that’s something that I think that the Clinton legal team is going to think long and hard about,” Comer said at the time….
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“The Clintons have offered to testify fully to every single request from Chairman Comer and the Republicans. So they’ve accepted the full offer,” he said. “And like we’ve said, and we’ve said from day one, that we are and have always wanted to hear from President Clinton. We’ve been encouraging him to testify. We’ve been encouraging Comer to cut a deal.”….
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Does thios mean that 3 years from now Donald Trump or JD Vance could be subpoenaed to show up before a Democratic House Oversight Panell , or be held in criminal contempt?
image….Vox
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