By STEPHEN GROVES
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Invoice Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton say they are going to refuse to adjust to a congressional subpoena for them to testify in an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
The Clintons are slamming a Republican-controlled committee’s makes an attempt as “legally invalid” as GOP lawmakers put together contempt of Congress proceedings in opposition to them. In a letter launched on social media Tuesday, the Clintons inform the chair of the Home Oversight Committee, Republican Rep. James Comer, he’s on the cusp of a course of “actually designed to end in our imprisonment.”
Comer says he’ll start contempt of Congress proceedings subsequent week. It probably begins an advanced and politically messy course of that Congress has not often reached for.
“Nobody’s accusing the Clintons of any wrongdoing. We simply have questions,” Comer advised reporters after Invoice Clinton didn’t present up for a scheduled deposition at Home places of work Tuesday.
He added, “Anybody would admit they spent lots of time collectively.”
Clinton has by no means been accused of wrongdoing in reference to Epstein however had a well-documented friendship with Epstein, a rich financier, all through the Nineties and early 2000s. Republicans have zeroed in on that relationship as they attempt to wrestle management over calls for for a full accounting of Epstein’s wrongdoing.
Epstein was arrested in 2019 on federal intercourse trafficking and conspiracy expenses. He killed himself in a New York jail cell whereas awaiting trial.
A number of former presidents have voluntarily testified earlier than Congress, however none has been compelled to take action.
Comer additionally indicated that the committee wouldn’t try and compel testimony from President Donald Trump, a fellow Republican, saying that it couldn’t drive a sitting president to testify.
