Former President and First Lady Bill and Hillary Clinton and the Department of Justice have been subpoenaed by House Oversight Committee to further an investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) issued subpoenas Tuesday to the former president and first lady, along with a slew of others that could have connections to Epstein, as the issue plagues the Trump administration.
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Comer subpoenaed the DOJ for the Epstein files as the issue has continued heating up over the last several weeks, with a deadline of August 19.
Along with the Clintons, House Oversight also subpoenaed eight others for depositions from August through October including former FBI Directors James Comey and Robert Mueller, former Attorneys General Merrick Garland, Bill Barr, Jeff Sessions, Alberto Gonzales, Loretta Lynch, and Eric Holder.
Last month, as the Epstein drama began to heat up, the Wall Street Journal reported that President Donald Trump’s name was on a 2003 birthday card to Epstein that included a suggestive drawing, the president denied any relation to the birthday card. They later reported that Clinton was also among the group who wrote a note to Epstein.
“It’s reassuring isn’t it, to have lasted as long, across all the years of learning and knowing, adventures and [illegible word], and also to have your childlike curiosity, the drive to make a difference and the solace of friends,” Clinton’s note wrote, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The Washington Examiner reached out to a Clinton representative for comment.
Epstein’s pilot, who testified in Maxwell’s trial, listed both Trump and Clinton on the list of those who flew on his private plane, adding that he would be given a notice if high-profile individuals were flying.
Clinton’s spokesperson then admitted to the former president being aboard the plane, but claimed he knew nothing about the crimes being committed.
“In 2002 and 2003, President Clinton took a total of four trips on Jeffrey Epstein’s airplane: one to Europe, one to Asia, and two to Africa, which included stops in connection with the work of the Clinton Foundation,” Clinton spokesman Angel Urena told CNN in 2019.
As part of Trump’s tactics to divert attention away from his involvement with Epstein, he claimed he turned down an offer to visit the island, while calling out other people the press should focus on, Clinton in particular.
“I never went to the island, and Bill Clinton went there supposedly 28 times. I never went to the island, but Larry Summers, I hear, went there, he was the head of Harvard. And many other people that are very big people, nobody ever talks about them,” Trump said in Scotland as he sat with the U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
A 2002 photo surfaced — just about a year after the former president left office — of him receiving a massage from an Epstein accuser getting off a long flight to Africa, on the sex offender’s plane. Clinton received the massage from then 22-year-old Chauntae Davies, who served as Epstein’s personal masseuse.
Davies told the Daily Mail of the interaction, “Although the image looks bizarre, President Clinton was a perfect gentleman during the trip, and I saw absolutely no foul play involving him.” She has come forward as a victim of Epstein’s, saying she was repeatedly raped.
The Clinton subpoenas are part of three motions that have passed the House Oversight Committee in efforts to unveil more information in relation to the Epstein files following the uproar after the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigations releasing a two-page memo earlier this month stating there is no evidence Epstein blackmailed people or kept a “client list,” reiterating he died by suicide, a conclusion that has resulted in mounting backlash from Trump’s MAGA base.
The Oversight Committee has also issued a subpoena for Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s former girlfriend and convicted sex offender in his trafficking scheme. Maxwell already met with a senior Department of Justice official in July while in prison. However, her congressional deposition that was initially scheduled for Aug. 11 has been delayed as her petition to appeal her criminal conviction is to be considered by the Supreme Court on Sept. 29.
Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) also successfully pushed for a vote to subpoena a range of former attorneys general and former government officials as part of the Epstein files investigation, including: former FBI Director James Comey, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, former Attorney General Eric Holder, former Attorney General Merrick Garland, former Special Counsel Robert Mueller, former Attorney General William Barr, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
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The third successful bipartisan effort included Rep. Summer Lee’s (D-PA) motion to subpoena the Epstein records from the Department of Justice, where three Republicans voted with the Pennsylvania Democrat, including Perry.
On top of House Oversight’s subpoenas, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) announced the Epstein Files Transparency Act with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) to force a vote on the complete release of government files related to Epstein. Eleven Republicans have cosponsored the legislation as of Tuesday, as Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has dodged voting on the legislation.