Comer warns Clintons to comply with Epstein probe subpoenas or be ‘in defiance’

Home Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., is urging former President Invoice Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to adjust to subpoenas requiring them to look for private depositions earlier than the committee’s investigation into the intercourse trafficking case of late financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Comer first ordered the Clintons to look earlier than the committee for a private assertion in August. Nonetheless, the Clintons’ lawyer, David Kendall, stated on Nov. 3 that his purchasers might present written solutions as a substitute as a result of it’s “probably the most environment friendly and truthful option to proceed.”

However Comer stated such an association was unacceptable.

“Given their historical past with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, any try by the Clintons to stop them from testifying would violate lawful subpoenas and grounds for initiating a contempt of courtroom continuing in Congress,” Comer stated Friday in a press release accompanied by a letter to Kendall.

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“The committee seems ahead to affirming their motion and stays dedicated to offering transparency and accountability for the survivors of Epstein’s heinous crimes and for the American folks.”

Former President Invoice Clinton speaks onstage throughout the 2024 New York Occasions Dealbook Summit at Jazz at Lincoln Middle on December 4, 2024 in New York Metropolis. (Eugene Gologursky/Getty Photos for The New York Occasions)

In Kendall’s earlier letter, he instructed Comer that the Clintons had little to supply the committee. So a private testimony was not essential.

“The general public’s demand for presidency transparency about their criminality is each comprehensible and justified,” Kendall stated in a Nov. 3 letter.

“Former President Clinton and former Secretary Clinton welcome professional oversight of this matter, which is fact-based. In that regard, former President Invoice Clinton and former Secretary Hillary Clinton have little to contribute to that professional purpose, all of which might simply be filed on paper.”

Nonetheless, Comer walked again that declare, saying Friday that future delays would quantity to defying a lawful subpoena. Comer stated Invoice Clinton’s assertion is scheduled for Dec. 17, and Hillary Clinton’s is scheduled for Dec. 18.

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Former President Invoice Clinton and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein (Al Drago/American Broadcasting Firms, Inc. through Getty Photos; Rick Friedman/Corbis through Getty Photos)

Though Invoice Clinton admitted to touring on a aircraft with Epstein, he has stated he has by no means visited Epstein’s island and wrote in his 2024 memoir “Citizen” that he wished he had by no means even met Epstein. The previous president additionally doesn’t face any allegations of wrongdoing relating to his relationship with Epstein.

The Clinton Basis didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Fox Information Digital.

Comer printed his letter after President Donald Trump signed laws directing the Justice Division to launch recordsdata associated to Epstein.

Beneath the Epstein Recordsdata Transparency Act, the Justice Division should launch all unclassified paperwork and investigative supplies associated to Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Moreover, it should share recordsdata associated to people referenced in Epstein’s earlier lawsuits, particulars surrounding human trafficking allegations, inner DOJ communications associated to Epstein, and any particulars surrounding the investigation into his dying.

Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Seaside, Florida, February 22, 1997. (Davidoff Studios/Getty Photos)

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The push to signal the laws got here after Democrats on Nov. 12 launched three emails offered to them by Epstein’s property that talked about Trump. In flip, Republicans launched their very own stash of greater than 20,000 pages of Epstein paperwork that very same day.

Whereas the paperwork themselves are genuine, Epstein’s statements within the emails stay unverified and uncorroborated. The paperwork don’t allege that Trump dedicated any wrongdoing and solely depict Epstein naming the president.

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Invoice Clinton can also be talked about in a number of the newly unearthed paperwork. For instance, Epstein stated in a 2015 electronic mail that Invoice Clinton “NEVER EVER” visited his so-called Epstein Island.

Fox Information’ Emma Colton contributed to this report.