Oh, boy.
President Bill Clinton defied a subpoena to give a deposition regarding Jeffrey Epstein in front of the House Oversight Committee.
The sworn closed-door deposition should have happened at 10 AM ET.
Chairman James Comer is not happy:
Well, I think everyone knows by now Bill Clinton did not show up, and I think it’s important to note that this subpoena was voted on in a bipartisan manner by this committee. This wasn’t something that I just issued as chairman of the committee. This was voted on by the entire committee in a unanimous vote of the House Oversight Committee to subpoena former President Clinton and former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton.Now Hillary Clinton is supposed to show up tomorrow. We’ll see what happens there.But with respect to the former president, he did not show up today. One reason I think most Americans want President Clinton to answer some questions is because he [Epstein] visited the White House. Jeffrey Epstein visited the White House 17 times while Bill Clinton was President. I’ve been in Congress nine years. I think I’ve been to the White House nine times in nine years. Epstein was in the White House double the amount of time that I was under one president, and then we know that Bill Clinton flew on Epstein’s playing somewhere around 27 times after the presidency.So no one’s accusing Bill Clinton of anything, any wrongdoing. We just have questions, and that’s why the Democrats voted along with Republicans to subpoena Bill Clinton.Not a single Democrat showed up today. Not a single Democrat, the ones that have press conferences on the Capitol steps and talk about how they’re trying to get justice for the victims and all that, it just seems like they only care about questioning Republicans. And we’ve had, we’ve had a former Trump cabinet secretary, [Labor Secretary Alexander] Acosta, in for a grilling. We had Bill Barr, former attorney general, in for a grilling, but for whatever reason, President Clinton didn’t show up, and the Democrats on the committee don’t seem to have a have a problem.This is the amount of preparation that went into this deposition today. These were the questions that we were prepared to ask. We’ve communicated with President Clinton’s legal team for months now, giving them opportunity after opportunity to come in to give us a day, and they continue to delay, delay, delay to the point where we had no idea whether they’re going to show up today or not.I think it’s very disappointing as a result of Bill Clinton not showing up for his lawful subpoena, which again was voted on it unanimously by the committee in a bipartisan manner.We will move next week in the House Oversight Committee markup to hold former President Clinton in contempt of Congress.
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