❓WHAT HAPPENED: Former President Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary Clinton, have agreed to testify in a House investigation into their ties with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Bill and Hillary Clinton, House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY), and the House Oversight Committee.
📍WHEN & WHERE: The offer to testify was made late Monday night, with depositions to take place on mutually agreed-upon dates.
💬KEY QUOTE: “We don’t have anything in writing,” Rep. Comer said, but left the door open to reaching an agreement for them to testify, adding, “It depends on what they say.”
🎯IMPACT: While attorneys for Bill and Hillary Clinton say their clients will now comply with the Oversight Committee’s subpoenas, Chairman Comer stated he will not be dropping his push for criminal contempt of Congress charges for the time being.
Former President Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary Clinton, appear to have reversed course late Monday night and agreed to testify in a House investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The decision comes after months of resisting in-person testimony regarding their alleged ties to Epstein and his visits to the Clinton White House.
The agreement, communicated through their attorneys, avoids—for now—a vote to hold the Clintons in criminal contempt of Congress. According to attorneys representing the former President and his wife, the couple now accepts Comer’s conditions and “will appear for depositions on mutually agreeable dates.” Still, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) says he will not drop his committee’s criminal contempt of Congress charges against the Clintons for their initial refusal to testify under subpoena. However, the House Rules Committee moved late Monday night to table the two contempt resolutions for the time being.
“We don’t have anything in writing,” Comer said, but left the door open to accepting the Clintons’ offer, noting that “it depends on what they say.” He stressed that the former President and his wife “don’t get to dictate the terms of lawful subpoenas.”
The National Pulse reported in late January that the House Oversight Committee, on a bipartisan vote, moved to adopt resolutions of criminal contempt of Congress against Bill and Hillary Clinton after months of negotiations over the conditions under which they would testify before the panel. Last month, both Bill and Hillary Clinton defied a congressional subpoena compelling them to testify before the House panel. The testimony was slated for January 13 and 14; however, an attorney representing the Clintons stated that neither would appear before the House panel and argued that the congressional subpoena is “legally unenforceable.”
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