Bill and Hillary Clinton have declared themselves above the law as they refused to testify before Congress on Jeffrey Epstein on Tuesday.
The ex-president was scheduled to testify at a closed-door deposition in the House Oversight Committee’s bipartisan investigation into Epstein at 10am but failed to show. Hillary was slated to appear on Wednesday.
House Oversight’s Republican chair James Comer promised to hold the Clintons in contempt of Congress — where the Republican Party holds a majority.
In an astonishing letter to Comer, the Clintons launched a broadside at Donald Trump and the Republican lawmakers carrying out his ‘cruel agenda.’
They argued that a legal analysis that had been submitted to the committee meant that they were not required to testify and claimed that the threats against them were an extension of the Trump administration’s ‘weaponization’ of the law.
The Clintons wrote: ‘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. 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.’
They went on to claim that they have attempted to furnish the committee with all the information that it requires regarding what they know about Epstein, but believe that they are being treated unfairly.
‘A legal analysis prepared by two law firms and provided to you yesterday makes clear your subpoenas are legally invalid,’ the Clintons wrote.
‘You claim your subpoenas are inviolate when they are used against us yet were silent when the sitting President took the same position, as a former president, barely more than three years ago.
‘We call on you to release that analysis to the public to allow them to see how this is yet another example of the casual disregard of the law of the land. All the while, you have done nothing with your oversight capacity to force the Department of Justice to follow the law and release all its Epstein files, including any material regarding us as we have publicly called for.’
Former president Bill Clinton and a woman are seen in this newly released image from the Epstein estate
