r/politics • u/OkayButFoRealz • 3h ago
Possible Paywall James Comer Won’t Let Hillary Clinton Testify Publicly on Epstein
https://newrepublic.com/post/206253/james-comer-hillary-clinton-testimony-epstein•
u/TintedApostle 3h ago
So this is Trump trying to figure out what everyone knows.
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u/trisul-108 Europe 3h ago
They want to misrepresent what the Clintons have said, before it goes public.
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u/TintedApostle 3h ago
Humans never really progress.
“The suppressing of evidence ought always to be taken for the strongest evidence.”
- Andrew Hamilton, The Trial of John Peter Zenger 1735
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u/Yashema 2h ago
There are a decent number of humans in the US who dont want this.
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u/LongPorkJones 2h ago
I think in this case it'd be an indecent number, because any opposition to bringing this to light is terrible.
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u/Aqualung812 1h ago
Apparently they couldn’t be bothered to vote against it.
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u/Yashema 1h ago
Not voting, especially in a swing state, is proof the non voters might not be as against fascism as much as believed.
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u/WildYams 2h ago
Yep. They don't want to risk something being said which makes them look bad, so the private hearing allows them to fully control what gets out and what does not.
While I do support contempt of congress charges for people who defy a congressional subpoena, I think the laws (or rules) need to be amended so that congress can't dictate the specifics like the way Comer is doing and then be able to threaten jail time if the person doesn't fully allow themselves to be used as a political pawn like this. If you want to subpoena someone, fine, but if they insist on doing so publicly, that shouldn't be interpreted as refusing to testify and resulting in criminal charges.
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u/Thickencreamy 1h ago edited 18m ago
Nobody should testify secretly unless its national security material. Do we need a new law to state this? They did the same shit with Hunter Biden. "we only want your testimony in secret". And they have zero reason for it to be secret.
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u/WildYams 1h ago
I'm not totally sure if it's the law that would govern this or if it's some congressional rule of some kind. All I know is if people refuse a congressional subpoena then they can be voted in contempt of congress and referred to the DOJ for criminal charges as a result. Whatever part of that allows people who insist on only testifying publicly to still be held in contempt is what needs to be changed. If someone like Jim Comer doesn't want them to testify publicly, then fine, but the threat of criminal charges should disappear.
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u/JTMc48 1h ago
The subpoena isn’t legally enforceable, because they won’t provide the Clinton’s with the evidence they have, and they’re not being requested to testify to help with legislative purposes.
Legally speaking Congress isn’t acting per their purpose. They’re also not a court, so it’s nothing more than political theater.
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u/feraxks 55m ago
so it’s nothing more than political theater.
So just a continuation of every accusation is a confession.
Comer told Fox that the closed-door deposition had already been agreed to, and that the video, audio, and transcript of the deposition would be made available to the public afterward.
Then why not just make it a public hearing to begin with? Comer is so full of shit.
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u/WildYams 43m ago
Just FYI, this is not really true. If you refuse a congressional subpoena, congress can vote to hold you in contempt of congress. If that vote passes, then it is referred over to the DOJ and the Attorney General decides whether to press charges or not. If so, then it goes to trial. This is what happened to both Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro when they refused congressional subpoenas to testify about the January 6th insurrection. Both men served months in prison for their refusal to testify.
The AG has the discretion to not charge someone with contempt of congress (as Merrick Garland decided not to with Dan Scavino and Mark Meadows). But in the case of the Clintons, they'd have been gambling that Pam Bondi would choose not to press charges if congress voted that they were in contempt for not testifying. So yes, it's political theater, but Pam Bondi is every bit a part of that theater.
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u/0o0o0o0o0o0z 2h ago
They want to misrepresent what the Clintons have said, before it goes public.
Not to be that guy, but 100% having a public hearing would be the only way I'd capitulate to testifying. Kinda find it hard to understand why they couldn't stall, etc., to only force a public hearing.
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u/opinions360 1h ago
They have been doing that already and delayed until the contempt charges were threatened in writing to their attorney.
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u/0o0o0o0o0o0z 1h ago
I dont understand how Jim Jordan can avoid one, but the Clintons cant... 🤷♂️
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u/Randomfactoid42 Virginia 1h ago
Because he has an (R) after his name, it’s the get out of jail free card.
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u/Raintitan 2h ago
Can't Clinton just have a press event and talk?
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u/Wurm42 District Of Columbia 1h ago
Yes. And if Congress won't let the Clintons give public testimony, the Clintons should have a press conference before they go into the closed hearing and say whatever they have to say.
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u/BigHardMephisto 1h ago
inb4 repubs try to claim that a press conference releasing information relevant to the epstien files is interfering with federal investigation and immediately try to have them arrested
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u/OnlyJabronisCanPlay 1h ago
Todd Blanche (deputy attorney general) said all of these crimes were committed by Epstein himself, and there's nothing else in the files that warrants further investigation. So arresting the Clintons for interfering with an investigation that doesn't exist sounds exactly like the type of things the trump regime would do. Is it too late to add this to my 2026 bingo card?
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u/SEAJustinDrum 1h ago
If they do that, their testimony will get cancelled, and called irrelevant. What they're saying needs to get sent out to the media by their Lawyers, during the first few minutes of the Clintons giving their testimony.
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u/upotheke 2h ago
What in the name of the Mueller report makes you think that?
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u/CanAlwaysBeBetter 1h ago
Mueller report: This report does not exonerate Trump
Barr: The Mueller report totally exonerates Trump
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u/LaserCondiment 2h ago
I'm surprised how effective that was with the Mueller Report. It'll work here as well
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u/Sedu 1h ago
Hillary Clinton:"I do <CUT> support the <CUT> bad people who <CUT> hurt <CUT> children. <CUT> I am completely <CUT> bad."
Fox News: "Can you BELIEVE the radical left?"
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u/CuteWithReceipts 3h ago
Lol exactly
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u/77NorthCambridge 3h ago
This is a perjury trap. The DOJ held back documents and Republicans are going to try and catch the Clintons perjuring themselves on some bullshit claim.
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u/physical0 2h ago
If it was just a perjury trap, they could do it in public. The trap would be better if they could whip out the receipts live on air and watch them squirm. They need to ensure that any potentially damaging testimony that could implicate those they protect doesn't reach public ears. This isn't just about protecting Trump. There is an entire donor class that they are beholden to.
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u/77NorthCambridge 2h ago
No, they want to do it in private so they can spin it the way they want. You are assuming good faith...even in a perjury trap situation. Bondi will indict based on nothing...as she has shown.
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u/Rob71322 2h ago
The. She’ll lose since an indictment based on nothing doesn’t go anywhere. Just like with all the rest. These people want it behind closed doors because they don’t want to be humiliated on live TV.
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u/seoulgleaux 2h ago
They know the charges won't go anywhere, they just want the soundbite "Hillary Clinton was indicted for lying about Epstein connections." And when it goes nowhere they'll blame the dismissal on "radical democrat, activist judges."
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u/opinions360 1h ago
This is happening because DT wants to inflict as much damage on the Democratic leadership past and present as much as possible-It’s all about DT’s revenge motivations-there is no actual legal reasoning to force them to testify-they just want to inflict damage on Democrats. It’s a political witch hunt for real.
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u/LirdorElese 2h ago
I mean it's true the last perjury trap for the clintons was basically taking advantage of the public's normal definition of "sexual relations" with the definition they gave him.
Though I think they want both a perjury trap, and not to have him speak publicly.
Though honestly I really want someone to just burn everything down.
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u/notebooksmellsofrain 2h ago
A real perjury trap only works if it’s public and on the record. Doing it behind closed doors defeats the whole point unless the goal is containment, not truth. This reeks of protecting a broader donor class and power network, not just Trump. If sunlight where safe for them they will welcome it.
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u/smurf123_123 2h ago
I'm not so sure they are at a perjury trap level of sophistication. My impression is that they want to control the narrative as much as possible.
Bill Clinton has access to intelligence reports. He would absolutely tar and feather them if it was public.
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u/rounder55 2h ago
Hillary is too savvy for their bullshit. She did the Benghazi thing like all day in front of everyone and they looked like a bunch of dumbasses for the five minutes our collective voting population can remember something for
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u/HypertensiveK 2h ago
Mandatory Fuck Darrell Issa for wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on that shit.
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u/NorthernerWuwu Canada 1h ago
Waste? They successfully deflected from the fact that Republicans were the ones that cut the embassy security budget. Benghazi was their fuck up and they made it Hillary's in the public eye. Mission accomplished!
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u/JuanJeanJohn 2h ago
I went to the Fox News website about an hour ago to see what bullshit stories they were headlining instead of covering the Trump racist monkey video story (which as expected, is nowhere to be found) and they literally had a Benghazi related headline halfway down the page as a top story. In 2026. It’s pathological.
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u/SubstanceHaunting282 3h ago
What do you bet the plan is to accidentally “leak” every fifth word and spin it to make the Clintons look guilty?
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u/beer_is_tasty Oregon 2h ago
"During my time in the upper-class New York social scene, I personally witnessed Donald Trump loudly bragging on multiple occasions that he visited Epstein's Island frequently and raped dozens of minors"
-Bill Clinton
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u/Slade_Riprock 2h ago
Testimony, Bill is an attorney and slick, that frames it as he made the poor choice to associate WITH Epstein and even stay on his island where he did not partake in any sexual activity. However he witnessed other high-profile current and former politicians and well known names in attendance who were in the accompany of young but not underage women. I was also privy to "rumors" and "gossip" that I did not witness first hand but was given second hand accounts of which I could lot verify the validity that these well known names and politicians engaged in reprehensible sexual conduct that included potential underage women. Again I want to be clear I did not witness this it was merely a multitude of information from others who were indeed in attendance and one of those people was Jeffrey Epstein who made these claims to me about those people.
Just detailed enough to blow up the speculation world and just vague enough to skirt defamation.
Then watch dementia brain flip out and put himself by saying he'd sue Clinton for defamation.
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u/Extra-Ad5925 3h ago
That’s why they want it to be public
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u/Brief-Distance7702 2h ago
Closed doors are a feature, not a bug, when you're manufacturing a narrative.
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u/ITookTrinkets Oregon 3h ago edited 3h ago
Yeah it’ll basically be pedophile billionaire blackout poetry
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u/opinions360 2h ago
They want them to be their scapegoats. When the republicans are guilty they bully the Clintons.
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u/one_pound_of_flesh 3h ago
Like a police interrogation, but performed by feeble minded stooges with the collective mental capacity of a potato
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u/Fionaelaine4 2h ago
Comer wants to be able to control the narrative for the public and can’t if Clintons speak out publicly on the stand. He wants to manipulate the recordings like they have other Epstein files.
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u/lazy-but-talented 3h ago
In which way? I can’t figure it out
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u/Gortonis 3h ago
He wants them to testify behind closed doors so Trump can get the transcript and see if they would reveal something damaging about him if given the opportunity. Because Trump doesn't know what the Clinton's know about his relationship and activities with Epstein.
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u/Seven-Prime 3h ago
great now the orange turd is going to say he's the first to solve prisoner's dilemma
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u/NlghtmanCometh 3h ago
Bill Clinton should spill the beans on the BJ. Take one for the team even if it isn’t true. “Oh yeah that Donnie, he could suck the chrome off a trailer hitch let me tell ya…”
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u/LaurelCanyoner 2h ago
DING DING DING
This.
He can't believe they called his bluff and said, "Sure, we will testify, but only in the open, for everyone to hear"
If you look up the phrase, "Be careful what you wish for" there is a picture of trump and this story. lol.
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u/seriousofficialname 3h ago
I assume that's because James Comer is a pedophile.
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u/Toomanyeastereggs 3h ago
It’s probably a very good assumption to make.
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u/youshouldn-ofdunthat 3h ago
Might as well given his defense of them
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u/seriousofficialname 3h ago
It's kind of like nazism where if you don't have a problem with it then that's exactly what makes you one of them
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u/bbcversus Europe 3h ago
Incredible how a country (especially USA) can be held prisoner by a bunch of pedophiles… what the fuck…
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u/seriousofficialname 2h ago
Tale as old as time. Degenerates and rapists and psychopaths must seize power to become unaccountable for their crimes and abuses. Yet when people were starting to really talk a lot around 2008-2010 about how and why we have a "rape culture" all the rapists and abusers came out to gaslight. It's actually all very predictable. They feel cornered. And "cucked" in their words.
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u/fcocyclone Iowa 2h ago
Degenerates and rapists and psychopaths must seize power to become unaccountable for their crimes and abuses.
I think its more the other way around though.
These people were and are rich and powerful, and that does something to a lot of their brains when they can get almost everything they want. Eventually they start wanting the things they are told they can't have, and at the top of that list is fucking children. Its not even about being attracted to children for these people, its about having the power to be able to do what no one else can and get away with it.
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u/Batmanischill 2h ago
It baffles me that apparently this whole time the US had no real state defense mechanism to immediately get us out of this situation. This whole time the government has had no real worst possible scenario back up plan. Just relying and hoping that no one so evil and so corrupt ends up in the white house. Now that we got someone like that in the white house he is destroying the country and there's almost no way to stop him legally. It's crazy
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u/DingerSinger2016 Alabama 2h ago
To be fair the Founding Fathers anticipated that the Constitution would get amended a lot more than what it is right now.
Unfortunately they made the bar to amend the Constitution to be damn near impossible now.
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u/radarthreat 2h ago
No, I think the bar is at an appropriate height. I think the founding fathers didnt anticipate something like this where the party in power is totally cool with the President acting and being this way
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u/Wrath_Ascending 2h ago
He lead three insurrections live on air, wasn't impeached because of his own party, judges colluded to prevent him facing charges or were intimidated into lenient sentencing, and then the Supreme Court ruled that the 14th Amendment didn't apply to him.
There were enough guard rails. But nothing was going to stop him when Republicans were already ascendant and knew they only needed one more successful election to secure eternal victory.
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u/Rare-Peak2697 2h ago
Until he presents evidence he isn’t, we don’t know for sure
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u/jabrwock1 3h ago
They should go scorched earth and just publish their prepared statements with as much detail as possible, to be released right as they're being sworn in. Imagine every single question Trump apologists would ask, and address those up-front.
Then take notes of what Comer asks, and publish those too right afterwards. Dare him to do something about it.
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u/EndNo4852 2h ago
I like this approach. I wonder what we’ll really get though
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u/WellHung67 1h ago
I seriously don’t get Schumer. This is a war. You have a tactical nuke and the other side has already violated MAD. However, they fucked up and their nuke didn’t detonate. How do democrats like Schumer not have a war room? This Epstein thing literally can kneecap the Trump admin today - why the fuck is he not doing stuff like this?
This leader is so, so weak and compromised. Even if he was gung ho about stopping fascism, which clearly he either isn’t or for some inane naive failure he doesn’t realize it, he isn’t pulling out all the stops. Using the fact that Trump is a pedophile, if the situation was reversed they would be calling for Bidens head as we speak. Republicans would.
Dems need a new leader this is pissing me off the more I think about it. Milquetoast, weak, idiots all of the Schumer type democratic leaders. They are the most powerful people in place to stop this and they refuse to do anything other than complain that there’s nothing they can do to stop this
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u/SellaraAB Missouri 1h ago
Where you’re going wrong in trying to understand Schumer is that you’re starting with this notion that he is on your side in this war. He’s not.
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u/6millionreps 1h ago
.....because Schumer's compromised? I thought it was obvious he's an enemy of the people, an extension of the GOP. Am I mistaken?
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u/Michael_G_Bordin 1h ago
There's no direct evidence of this, but all circumstantial evidence points to it. If I was a jurist in a case against Schumer, I'd call this "clear and convincing evidence". If he's not some sort of controlled opposition, he sure isn't doing anything but acting like he is.
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u/RolloTonyBrownTown 43m ago
I mean, look at his donors for direct evidence of where his support sits. Dark money has corrupted both parties to their core, we are no longer being represented, their donors are.
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u/whomad1215 1h ago
He cares about not upsetting the big donors and supporting Israel
Those are his two priorities, and they do not align with the average person
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u/jabrwock1 2h ago
If it's a closed ("in camera") session, is that even admissible in a court of law to prosecute? Because their "confession" would have to be entered into the court record, and discovery would be, how they say, "a bitch"
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u/cobrachickenwing 2h ago
You can't prove libel unless you fully release the unredacted Epstein files, in a court of law.
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u/lasers42 3h ago
Then just release your 'conclusion' now. It's already written, obviously.
"We finished our grilling of the Clinton crime family, and let me tell you, it was sick what they did. You're welcome, America. Now, due to the vagaries of the various institutional, and legal ramifications of the statues, with regard to the timing of the so-and-so, they were not charged with any crimes..."
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u/Secret_Research_7185 3h ago
Comer did this with Devon Archer as well, but then released the transcript. Prior to the transcript Comer gave his account of the testimony, which was then completely disproved by the actual transcript.
Comer hearings are almost funny; he has no idea of the rules of his own committee, he asks witnesses "gotcha" questions, only to try to then quiet them when what they're saying is the opposite of what Comer thought they'd say, he is never prepared.
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u/paws5624 2h ago
Yes and then the right wing media carries him and his statements and quietly ignores the actual transcript. They “win” in the eyes of their fanatic voters and the rest of us yell and scream about the actual transcript but no one else hears it
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u/gringledoom 1h ago
Yep, he wants to get the lie halfway around the world before the truth can get its shoes on
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u/Infamous_Employer_85 3h ago
So predictable. Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton would both name names.
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u/Junior-Explorer-7506 3h ago
All Bill has to say is "Yes. DJT gave me a blowjob." And watch conservatives implode
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u/Infamous_Employer_85 3h ago
"And he was very enthusiastic about it"
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u/Junior-Explorer-7506 3h ago
"The proof is in the redacted files. So unredact them all for the public. (Except the victims faces)
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u/Rolemodel247 3h ago
We got HALF the files illegally redacted. So the files we got were not legally presented and they also illegally held 3 million more files.
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u/oops_i_made_a_typi 1h ago
we got 3 million pages. there are 6 million documents, so we're at far less than half
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u/pangalaticgargler 3h ago
“His small hands made me feel huge.”
Oh gods what have I written?
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u/Kiyohara Minnesota 3h ago
"He was really good at it. Right amount of spit, no teeth, worked the tongue so well, cupped and rolled the balls, gentle pressure on the stem, and man... he went deep. Like deep enough that I was worried he'd suffocate, but boy, he had no fear. He was like a blowjob viking heading for Valhalla."
Hillary nods. "Bill would not stop talking about it for years. Just would not shut up. I had to tell him not everyone can suppress their gag reflex so well, but he just wouldn't listen. Honestly I couldn't compete. I don't think any woman could short of some really skilled professionals."
"Yeah. he was a professional all right. I sometimes still dream of that moment. It's my fucking El Dorado."
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u/anderskants 3h ago
"The only reason I let him do it is because I felt bad for him. He kept begging and at one point started to cry, so I whapped it out, never seen a man so happy in my life..."
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u/space_wiener 3h ago
Implode? You are joking right? They’ll start standing on corners with signs saying free blowjobs. They weren’t going to care one bit if Trump did it.
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u/Junior-Explorer-7506 2h ago
They'll implode because long before they were Trump supporters they were homophobes.
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u/marsisblack 2h ago
He will start that way and then continue, " but it wasnt mine. We made him wear a blind fold and he actually sucked Bob Dole's dick."
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u/BaldPorqupine 3h ago
Hillary's name isn't even in the Epstine files so he should pound sand when he says "Open hearings are more for entertainment."
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u/Infamous_Employer_85 3h ago
I thought this was "the most transparent administration in the history of the world"
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u/atrich Washington 3h ago
They meant "transparent" as in "blatantly obvious". As in "transparently corrupt"
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u/Ok-disaster2022 3h ago
Hillary stood her ground for like 12 hours on Benghazi and came out looking better IMHO. Mistakes were made and Americans were killed and buck stopped with her and she didn't shy away from it.
Republicans know they don't have nearly the credibility of Hillary, and that says something
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u/TooManyDraculas 2h ago
Actually that endless series of GOP lead Congressional investigations, ultimately laid the blame on the GOP lead congress' forced budget cuts undermining embassy security.
Multiple times.
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u/Olealicat 3h ago
Even then, how long did the imbeciles cry about Benghazi?
I understand their hesitation to not testify under Trump’s guard. Get an unbiased third party in there and it’ll still be played a certain way on each side, but it won’t be Trump distracting from himself.
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u/bluehat9 3h ago
Hillary appears in the files over 1000 times actually. Hillary Clinton 685 times. Does that implicate her in anything? Probably not. But you can’t really claim her name doesn’t appear.
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u/Orwells_Roses Oregon 3h ago
Then she should ignore the courts the way Republicans do.
How many Republicans refused to testify even though it was court ordered?
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u/The_Skoal_Bandit Florida 3h ago
Gym Jordan is still in violation
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u/Capital-Win-4732 3h ago
Not ordered by a court. He was subpoenaed by a congressional committee and refused to testify. Just clarifying that it is an Article I thing, not an Article III thing.
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u/yulscakes 3h ago
Yeah. Like what are they gonna do? Arrest her for contempt? She can just say she’s willing to testify publicly. The optics just aren’t on the Republicans’ side here.
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u/AmbivalentFanatic 3h ago
Then she shouldn't go.
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u/Walden_recluse 3h ago
Yes. This was Hunter Biden's concern. I'll testify but only in an open forum. He knew any closed door hearings would only result in shenanigans.
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u/freebytes 3h ago
She should simply plead the fifth on every question and refuse to answer anything.
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u/Andrey2790 3h ago
"I do not recall" seems to be an acceptable answer to certain...people.
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u/jerseyboy24601 3h ago
The Clintons should bring their own stenographer and then immediately release the transcripts to prevent selective releases and leaks.
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u/mok000 Europe 3h ago
Exactly. Or even record the whole session.
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u/Nervous_Ad_6998 2h ago
Just do a live YouTub.
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u/auart Alabama 1h ago
Now I'm picturing Bill in a bubble bath with a rubber duck. "I do not recall." squeaks ducky "...Neither does he."
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u/jason082 3h ago
Why not? Comer said he wanted testimony from the Clintons, bitched when he said they dragged their feet, and held countless time wasting press conferences.
Now they’re volunteering to do it and he doesn’t want it?
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u/biscodude 3h ago
They should refuse unless it's public. Good luck getting them in contempt for that.
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u/HiddenInLight 3h ago
Anybody actively protecting or supporting pedophiles is just as guilty, or a pedophile themselves. Take that as you may.
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u/WkndCake 3h ago
Trying to remember the last time a god loving republican ever testified under oath, hand to the bible?
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u/SpaceMonkeyZane 2h ago
The amount of effort the Republicans are putting into protecting pedophiles should be the end of that party... should be.
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u/AngelicBumblebee 17m ago
they're clearly trying to misrepresent what the clintons have said before it goes public.. i hate people like that, i dated this 50 year old while i was in highschool and he literally looks exactly like him
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u/uoy_redruM 3h ago
They don't need to testify. Just start naming names and give stories. We'll sort it out soon enough.
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u/SubstanceHaunting282 3h ago
Seriously, if they won’t allow them to testify publicly, what’s stopping them from getting it all out there ahead of it?
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u/FanofK 3h ago
If the Clinton’s are as evil and dangerous as they told us for many years than let the world see first hand by making this an open and transparent proscess.
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u/18MazdaCX5 3h ago
They are the ones that want to testify publicly too! Something isn't right and someone wants the truth hidden.
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u/caradventure 2h ago
Hillary Clinton is a former Senator, Secretary of State, First Lady while married to Bill Clinton, and survivor of decades of investigations, senate inquiries, etc. I watched every single minute of her Benghazi testimony and she was treated with astonishing contempt, but she never hesitated in her answers. I am sure her inquisitors are eager to press the thorny crown on her head and nail her to a cross. She must testify publicly. Remember, one Trump says it's all a hoax, but I don't recall what the other Trump says.
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u/WallNumerous3230 3h ago
Comer isn't really trying to get any truth released. He just wants to cherry pick the testimony to slander a former President, and his Senator/Sec State wife.
Make no mistake, this is a witch hunt by Trump's cronies to find out who knows what.
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u/pasta2666 3h ago
This is why Trump started sucking up to Bill suddenly. "Hate to see it" my ass.
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u/Foojira 3h ago
The games they play. Fuck every Republican in office and every single voter every one. Don’t care
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u/Kiyohara Minnesota 3h ago
But that doesn't make any sense unless someone was afraid that the Clintons would reveal something they want to keep quiet.
But that can't be the case, right?
Right?
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u/Guy-De-Lombard 1h ago
😂 the Republicans are so fucked lol. Their entire party is about to implode because they’re all pedos
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u/dispelhope 2h ago
Because anything Ms Clinton says, testifies too, or reveals will definitely not fit Comer's world view nor serve his or the maga republicans interest.
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u/EnvironmentalLock440 2h ago
If they won't let them testify in public then they shouldn't testify. Gymy Jordan still hasn't.
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u/zach010 1h ago
There are Democrats in the files.
There are no files
There are files but we have to redact the victims.
We released them all but weve gotta keep perpetrators redacted because some of them are Democrats
We aren't going to prove there are Democrats in them.
This is an obvious cover up. Anyone who thinks is not, is a liar or stupid af!
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u/fuck-nazi 3h ago
Guess they refuse to testify then
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u/18MazdaCX5 3h ago
Actually that's a good move. Then they're found in contempt of court and go to trial... discovery will be a bitch then! I hope they do it.
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u/Iron_Knight7 2h ago
Remember, this is the guy who claimed there were mountains of evidence of Biden's corruption. But shrank like Trump's mushroom in winter when told to file the articles of impeachment.
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u/DarkArmyLieutenant 3h ago
Why tf not? Uh Conservatives, you guys should be pretty pissed off here!
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u/Craneteam I voted 3h ago
Comey humiliated that committee. Comer doesn't want another public beating and after all his bluster, trump didn't think the clintons would show up
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u/Adventurous_Oil_5805 2h ago
When Bill Barr got the Mueller Report he lied about how it exonerated Trump when in fact it implicated him. But the MAGA base to this very day still believes it exonerated Trump even though now it’s been released and we can see for ourselves. Same with this case. Comer can say whatever he wants and even when the transcripts come out and say the opposite, the MAGA base will go by Comer.
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u/Mister_Poopy_Butthol 2h ago
Wasn't he going to hold them in contempt for not testifying? Make it make sense!
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u/Robot0verlord 2h ago
Cool, so the Clinton's should threaten to hold a press conference where they start naming names without the cross examination.
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u/MeteorMike1 2h ago
“The deposition is for substance. This is a serious investigation. The purpose of the investigation is to get justice for the victims, and why the government failed the victims, and who the bad guys were and if they can be held accountable,” Comer said.
If that were remotely true, they would be deposing Trump. James Comer is the worst kind of person with no morals.
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u/AffectionateYear5232 2h ago
Comer was told by an aide that the Clintons will make him look like an absolute dumbass if he tries to publicly go toe to toe with them.
Probably.
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u/BallBearingBill 2h ago
Doesn't the Epstein law mean all released and discovered info on the subject need to be public with the exception of victim names? So they can't do a deposition behind closed doors.
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u/phreeman25 2h ago
These cowards know she'd dismantle them. I'm no Hillary fan, but she would run circles around Jimmy and the Bubbas trying to sell this sh*t.
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u/Tribute2BizzareMilk 2h ago
Because he’s a pussy. He also knows that this hearing, unlike the public Benghazi hearing-a-palooza, has the potential to expose/embarrass a lot of his friends and colleagues.
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u/Foxbodynation 2h ago
He is complicit in everything Trump does. He sweeps it all under the rug probably for monetary rewards. He’s scared or Trump is scared. That’s why they won’t let them testify publicly. I think the Clintons should have a News conference and lay it all out there, lock the door doors before any goons come in and try to stop it
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u/Embarrassed_Radio596 1h ago
James Comer doesn't get a fucking say in it. He's a failure and a traitor.
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u/Dgp68824402 3h ago
Comer again wants to control what gets reported afterwards. Clinton is too smart to fall for this.
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u/Ok_Coyote9326 3h ago
She should Go on MS NOW with the list of questions she was/would be asked and have that hearing on public tv.
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u/CommonSense66 2h ago
Jmo, but why don’t the Clintons and everyone else involved just call a press conference or have someone come out for a video and tell the tale? If ya ‘all know something just friggin’ get it out!!! My god!! Everyone is waiting to write a book for cash. It’s free to be the hero. Just come out and say it whomever is involved and wants to be on the correct side of history. You don’t have to be in the military to be Smedley Butler!
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u/muffledvoice 1h ago
Comer is afraid of the answers the Clintons will give. He knows that they can paint a very dim picture of Trump’s involvement in this, and he wants the power to selectively edit the parts that leak to the public.
MAGA is in damage control mode right now. They KNOW how it all looks for Trump if the complete truth is aired.
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