House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) issued a scathing rebuke to former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for their refusal to comply with bipartisan subpoenas. He also condemned Democrats who fail to support the effort for accountability, declaring that “they will be exposed as hypocrites.”
“Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform meets to advance two resolutions recommending that the House of Representatives find former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with duly issued subpoenas,” Comer said in his opening remarks at a markup to consider finding the Clintons in contempt of Congress. “The Committee does not take this action lightly. But subpoenas are not mere suggestions; they carry the force of law and require compliance.”
Comer declared that the Clintons have argued that they have been “treated unfairly because this Committee accepted written statements, under penalty of perjury from former U.S. Attorneys General Holder, Lynch, Sessions, and Garland, as well as former FBI Director Comey.” The Clintons, however, are in a “fundamentally different category,” for they have had “documented relationships with Epstein and Maxwell, evidenced by numerous photographs, flight-log records, wedding invitations, and other materials.”
The Clintons previously shared a letter addressed to Comer on social media, also signed by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, calling the subpoenas “legally invalid.”
“Despite everything that needs to be done to help our country, you are on the cusp of bringing Congress to a halt to pursue a rarely used process literally designed to result in our imprisonment,” the letter adds. “This is not the way out of America’s ills, and we will forcefully defend ourselves.”
