House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) on Monday said former President Clinton’s alleged ties to the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein should be uncovered during his testimony before members of Congress.
“Everybody in America wants to know what went on in Epstein Island and we’ve all heard reports that Bill Clinton was a frequent visitor there, so he’s a prime suspect to be deposed by the House Oversight Committee,” Comer said Monday during an interview on Newsmax.
“So hopefully we’ll win that court battle with that subpoena and see President Clinton in October,” he added.
Comer subpoenaed Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, on Aug. 5 to give testimony in the House GOP’s probe of matters surrounding Epstein, a convicted sex offender. Democrats have joined Republicans’ in backing the request.
“I’ve never lost a subpoena battle, I’ve been chairman of that committee for a year and a half, this is the most challenging subpoena I’ve ever issued, but what makes this subpoena different is that the Democrats voted with Republicans,” Comer told Rob Finnerty.
The Kentucky Republican added that he believes the subpoena will hold “a lot of weight in court.”
Clinton could refuse to testify but would then be subject to repercussions from Attorney General Pam Bondi.
“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,” Comer said during an appearance on NewsNation’s “The Hill” last week. “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.”
Former Attorneys General Bill Barr, who served under Trump’s first administration, and Merrick Garland, who served under the Biden administration, have also been summoned to testify.
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