DAMN!….
They seem SERIOUS….
And we’re talking Trump, their main man?
I expect the President to quash this with ‘Excutive Privilege ‘ to keep Bondi from testifying ….
But?
Wow!
A key House committee voted on Wednesday to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi to compel her to testify about the Justice Department’s investigation of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and its release of investigative material about him, after Republicans sided with Democrats to insist on it.
Over the objection of the panel’s Republican chairman, Representative James R. Comer of Kentucky, five Republicans on the Oversight Committee joined Democrats to force approval of the subpoena, which was introduced by Representative Nancy Mace, Republican of South Carolina.
The vote, 24 to 19, was a striking rebuke of a top Trump administration official by members of President Trump’s own party at a time when the Republican-controlled Congress has generally marched in lock-step with him.
It was also the second time in the past year that Republican members of the Oversight Committee, the House’s chief investigative panel, had crossed party lines to force action around Mr. Epstein, the disgraced financier who died in federal custody in 2019 while facing sex trafficking charges.
The Republicans who voted for the subpoena were Ms. Mace and Representatives Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Tim Burchett of Tennessee, Michael Cloud of Texas and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania.
Under the committee’s rules, Mr. Comer will be required to issue the subpoena for a closed-door deposition, in which Ms. Bondi will be under oath. The setting may force Ms. Bondi to contend more seriously with lawmakers’ questions than at a congressional hearing, where officials often perform for live television cameras and fall back on prepared talking points.
Though the Oversight Committee tends to be among the most strictly partisan panels in Congress, Republican leaders have repeatedly had to contend with defections connected to the Epstein scandal, which has become a potent political issue that has exposed rifts in Mr. Trump’s political coalition….
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