[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Bill and Hillary Clinton have declared themselves above the law as they refused to testify before Congress on Jeffrey Epstein.
The ex-president was scheduled to testify at a closed-door deposition in the House Oversight Committee's bipartisan investigation into Epstein at 10am Tuesday but failed to show. Hillary was slated to appear on Wednesday.
House Oversight's Republican chairman James Comer promised to bring contempt proceedings next week, setting off a potentially protracted and politically fraught legal battle that would be the first time in history a sitting or former president has been held in contempt by Congress.
In an astonishing letter to Comer, the Clintons launched a broadside at Donald Trump and the Republican lawmakers carrying out his 'cruel agenda.'
"Do you KNOW who WE ARE??"
They claimed a legal analysis proved they were not required to testify and insisted the subpoenas were an extension of Trump's 'weaponization' of the law.
'The Justice Department has been used as a weapon, at the direction of the President, to pursue political opponents. And most recently and searingly, an ICE agent killed an unarmed mother only days ago,' the Clintons wrote.
'Every person has to decide when they have seen or had enough and are ready to fight for this country, its principles and its people, no matter the consequences. For us, now is that time.'
The Clintons cited the precedent set by Trump in October 2022, when he defied a congressional subpoena demanding his testimony over the Capitol riot.
| An interesting argument. But is it likely to persuade those who hold power in this exchange? |
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