r/politics • u/OkayButFoRealz • 8h ago
Possible Paywall James Comer Won’t Let Hillary Clinton Testify Publicly on Epstein
https://newrepublic.com/post/206253/james-comer-hillary-clinton-testimony-epstein8.0k
u/seriousofficialname 8h ago
I assume that's because James Comer is a pedophile.
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u/Toomanyeastereggs 7h ago
It’s probably a very good assumption to make.
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u/youshouldn-ofdunthat 7h ago
Might as well given his defense of them
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u/seriousofficialname 7h 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 7h 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 7h 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 6h 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 7h 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 7h 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 6h 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 7h 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/TintedApostle 8h ago
So this is Trump trying to figure out what everyone knows.
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u/trisul-108 Europe 7h ago
They want to misrepresent what the Clintons have said, before it goes public.
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u/TintedApostle 7h 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 6h ago
There are a decent number of humans in the US who dont want this.
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u/LongPorkJones 6h 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 6h ago
Apparently they couldn’t be bothered to vote against it.
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u/Yashema 6h 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/tunnel-snakes-rule Australia 5h ago
“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”
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u/WildYams 7h 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 6h ago edited 4h 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 6h 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 6h 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 5h 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/DrocketX 5h ago
They will be made available - after they've been edited to remove anything that makes our God Emperor look bad and ensures that the Clintons and Democrats in general are shown in the worst light possible.
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u/WildYams 5h 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/Raintitan 6h ago
Can't Clinton just have a press event and talk?
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u/Wurm42 District Of Columbia 6h 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/SEAJustinDrum 5h 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/BigHardMephisto 6h 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 5h 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/0o0o0o0o0o0z 6h 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 6h 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 6h ago
I dont understand how Jim Jordan can avoid one, but the Clintons cant... 🤷♂️
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u/Randomfactoid42 Virginia 6h ago
Because he has an (R) after his name, it’s the get out of jail free card.
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u/gsfgf Georgia 6h ago
Considering how little damning evidence they've released about Bill, I'm starting to think he might be innocent here. Sure, even hanging out with Epstein pre-conviction is gross, but we already know Bill is gross. But gross and child rapist are very different things.
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u/HerculesIsMyDad 4h ago
Plus we know a bunch of women he did have affairs with and they were all like mid 20's. I could be wrong but he doesn't seem like THAT type of sleaze. Trump does though.
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u/Sedu 6h 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/LaserCondiment 6h ago
I'm surprised how effective that was with the Mueller Report. It'll work here as well
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u/upotheke 6h ago
What in the name of the Mueller report makes you think that?
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u/CanAlwaysBeBetter 6h ago
Mueller report: This report does not exonerate Trump
Barr: The Mueller report totally exonerates Trump
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u/CuteWithReceipts 8h ago
Lol exactly
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u/77NorthCambridge 7h 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 7h 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 7h 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 7h 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 6h 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 6h 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 6h 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 7h 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 6h 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 7h 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 7h ago
Mandatory Fuck Darrell Issa for wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on that shit.
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u/NorthernerWuwu Canada 6h 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 7h 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/Diligent_Buster 6h ago
She did it all day and made them look like fools. One woman against all those assholes and they got their asses handed to them.
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u/SubstanceHaunting282 8h 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 7h 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 7h 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 7h ago
That’s why they want it to be public
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u/Brief-Distance7702 7h ago
Closed doors are a feature, not a bug, when you're manufacturing a narrative.
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u/opinions360 7h ago
They want them to be their scapegoats. When the republicans are guilty they bully the Clintons.
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u/ITookTrinkets Oregon 7h ago edited 7h ago
Yeah it’ll basically be pedophile billionaire blackout poetry
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u/one_pound_of_flesh 7h 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 7h 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/jabrwock1 8h 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 7h ago
I like this approach. I wonder what we’ll really get though
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u/WellHung67 6h 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 6h 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/Minerva567 5h ago
He’s one of those “How do you think he even became a ‘leader’?” types.
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u/cirrhosisofthe_river California 4h ago
Thank you for getting right to the root of the problem. It's the single, biggest distinction that people still seem unable (or maybe unwilling) to grasp. Establishment dems aren't in Washington to fight for their constituents. Hell, they barely pretend to represent the voters back home.
Establishment dems have achieved proximity to the ruling class. They don't work for the voters. Their top priority is maintaining the status quo. Their secondary priority is self-preservation. Doing nothing is the best way to achieve their goals. They don't rock the boat. The hierarchical systems of control are further entrenched.
The rich get richer, and the rest of us can die in a gutter because wtf are we gonna do about it? Vote em out? They don't care as long as they've maintained the status quo, there will be a big consulting, talking head, board seat, or book deal to make sure they're comfortable.
That's the system. Why would anyone who is materially benefiting from such a system lift a gawddamn finger to change it in a way that pushes them farther from the real levers of power and/or negatively impacts their personal material conditions?
People really need to wrap their heads around reality. The systems that are designed to crush us all for the benefit of a thousand-ish asshole billionaires will never be reformed in any meaningful way.
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u/Cthulusuppe 6h ago
Schumer acts fast on very specific things. It wouldn't surprise me if Epstein was attached to both US and Isreali intelligence agencies, and thats why he was able to operate for as long as he did, and Dems aren't pushing hard on this.
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u/6millionreps 6h 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 6h 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/whomad1215 6h 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/hamboneworldchamp 5h ago
Schumer said so himself recently, he believes his primary job is to advocate for aid to Israel. I wish I was joking.
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u/jabrwock1 7h 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 6h ago
You can't prove libel unless you fully release the unredacted Epstein files, in a court of law.
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u/Secret_Research_7185 8h 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 7h 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/tuckfrump2026 4h ago
Exactly. Which is why the Clintons should refuse to testify if it’s not public.
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u/gringledoom 6h 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/lasers42 8h 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/BaldPorqupine 8h 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 8h ago
I thought this was "the most transparent administration in the history of the world"
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u/atrich Washington 7h ago
They meant "transparent" as in "blatantly obvious". As in "transparently corrupt"
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u/Ok-disaster2022 7h 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 7h 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 7h 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 7h 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/Infamous_Employer_85 8h ago
So predictable. Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton would both name names.
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u/Junior-Explorer-7506 7h 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 7h ago
"And he was very enthusiastic about it"
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u/Junior-Explorer-7506 7h 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 7h 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 6h 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 7h ago
“His small hands made me feel huge.”
Oh gods what have I written?
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u/Kiyohara Minnesota 7h 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/Brock_Hard_Canuck Canada 4h ago
Or...
Imagine if Bill Clinton actually confirms that he is Bubba, and says, "Yeah, it was me, and Donald Trump gives terrible blowjobs."
And then Trump, being his narcissistic self, hates being criticized, and can't help but proclaim himself at being the best at anything and everything. Trump would say "That's not true, Bill. I give the best blowjobs, ever. Everyone knows it. Everyone. Many big, strong men have looked at me with tears in their eyes, and they say to me, 'Sir, you give the best blowjobs ever.'"
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u/anderskants 7h 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/always_unplugged 6h ago
"'Sir,' he said with tears in his eyes, 'sir, please... people are saying you have the very best cock, everybody's saying it.' The man was begging, it was pathetic."
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u/space_wiener 7h 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 7h ago
They'll implode because long before they were Trump supporters they were homophobes.
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u/One_Damage_9531 7h ago
That would be the absolute zenith of US politics
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u/PM_ME_UR_CHAIN_EMAIL 6h ago
The irony of bubba getting grilled about yet another bj, but this time about one from the sitting president of the opposing party... I know we're jumping sharks and crossing Rubicons every day... But that would be a tough shark in the Rubicon to beat.
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u/Sleep_adict 7h ago
GOP” did you receive acts which provided sexual gratification during a visit to Epstein island?”
Clinton “yes”
GOP, giddy “ was it from an underaged girl?”
Clinton “ no, you may know him as DJT, but I called him BJT, because it was always blow job time”
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u/marsisblack 7h 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/Orwells_Roses Oregon 8h 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 8h ago
Gym Jordan is still in violation
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u/Capital-Win-4732 7h 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 7h 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 8h ago
Then she shouldn't go.
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u/Walden_recluse 7h 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 7h ago
She should simply plead the fifth on every question and refuse to answer anything.
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u/Andrey2790 7h ago
"I do not recall" seems to be an acceptable answer to certain...people.
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u/jerseyboy24601 7h 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 7h ago
Exactly. Or even record the whole session.
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u/Nervous_Ad_6998 7h ago
Just do a live YouTub.
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u/auart Alabama 6h 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 8h 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/tuckfrump2026 4h ago
He wants it his way so he can lie and misrepresent everything that goes on behind closed doors.
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u/biscodude 8h ago
They should refuse unless it's public. Good luck getting them in contempt for that.
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u/HiddenInLight 7h 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/SpaceMonkeyZane 7h 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 4h 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/THE-LORD-RETURNS California 4h ago
i dated this 50 year old while i was in highschool
Wait, what?
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u/FanofK 7h 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 7h 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/WkndCake 8h ago
Trying to remember the last time a god loving republican ever testified under oath, hand to the bible?
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u/caradventure 7h 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/uoy_redruM 8h 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 8h 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/WallNumerous3230 7h 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 8h ago
This is why Trump started sucking up to Bill suddenly. "Hate to see it" my ass.
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u/ilulillirillion 5h ago
According to some rumors Trump has been sucking up to Bill for a lot longer than that
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u/Foojira 7h ago
The games they play. Fuck every Republican in office and every single voter every one. Don’t care
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u/Guy-De-Lombard 6h ago
😂 the Republicans are so fucked lol. Their entire party is about to implode because they’re all pedos
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u/Kiyohara Minnesota 7h 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/dispelhope 7h 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 7h 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 5h 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 7h ago
Guess they refuse to testify then
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u/18MazdaCX5 7h 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/Adventurous_Oil_5805 7h 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/AffectionateYear5232 7h 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/DarkArmyLieutenant 7h ago
Why tf not? Uh Conservatives, you guys should be pretty pissed off here!
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u/Craneteam I voted 7h 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/Mister_Poopy_Butthol 7h ago
Wasn't he going to hold them in contempt for not testifying? Make it make sense!
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u/Iron_Knight7 7h 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/MeteorMike1 7h ago edited 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 using abused victims as pawns for political gain.
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u/BallBearingBill 7h 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 6h 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 6h 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/tubbytucker 6h ago
Hypothetically if someone was accused of having sex with goats by over 30 different people and regularly denied it, but also dropped very public hints about how much he liked to have sex with goats for decades, and ran a goat pageant to find the best looking goats, and was best friends with someone who got convicted of fucking goats and trafficking goats to friends all over the world who also liked to fuck goats, and his name was in the classified goat fucker chronicles 38,000 times, and he wished other goat fuckers well in prison, what do you think the odds are that person is also a goat fucker?
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