Former President Bill Clinton didn’t show for his closed-door deposition with congressional investigators scheduled for Tuesday morning as part of the ongoing Epstein files investigation.
Clinton posted part of a letter written by his and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s legal team to the Republican-led House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Committee on X on Tuesday morning. They accused the committee of playing political games instead of conducting a real investigation.
“You have forced the victims to relive their painful experiences, while doing little to give them and everybody else what’s deserved: truth and justice. There is no plausible explanation for what you are doing other than partisan politics,” the Clintons wrote.
Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., told journalists Tuesday that the committee plans to move next week to begin contempt of Congress proceedings against Bill Clinton.
Hillary Clinton is supposed to be deposed on Wednesday, and Comer said it would do the same for her if she doesn’t attend.
The committee subpoenaed the Clintons, along with Justice Department records and former U.S. attorneys general and former FBI directors, in early August. It directed the Clintons to appear for in-person private depositions in October. The depositions were rescheduled for December and then again rescheduled for mid-January, due to pushback from the Clintons and their attorney.
Comer had said that if the Clintons refused to attend their December depositions that Congress would move to begin contempt proceedings then, but he ultimately accepted the second rescheduling as their attorney had said they were needed at a funeral.
The committee has accepted sworn statements from seven of the eight others it subpoenaed in August, according to the Clintons’ letter, but has insisted they provide in-person depositions.
With his social media post of the letter, the former president wrote, “This is not about Right or Left, it’s about Right and Wrong.”
Comer replied with an X post of his own.
“You’re right, President Clinton. This is about right and wrong,” Comer wrote. “Refusing to comply with a bipartisan, duly authorized congressional subpoena in our Epstein investigation is unacceptable. No one is above the law.”
Comer included multiple photos of Clinton with Epstein and women whose faces were blacked out.
The letter said the Clintons expected they might be held in contempt and that they were prepared to defend themselves.
