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Jrose

(1,518 posts)
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 11:01 AM 5 hrs ago

The Clintons Refuse to Testify before Congress about Epstein.

'Instead they call for Comer 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."

[Excerpts from letter,
January 13, 2026]

'Chairman Comer,

We want to take a moment, given everything, to address you directly.

This past year has seen our Government engage in unprecedented acts, including against our own citizens. People have been seized by masked federal agents from their homes, their workplaces, and the streets of their communities. Students and scientists with visas permitting them to study and work here have been deported without due process. The people who laid siege to the U.S. Capitol have been pardoned and called heroes. Agencies vital to the country’s national security have been dismantled. Universities, media companies, and law firms have been subjected to threats to their funding, access, and licensing unless they made concessions and surrendered their right to constitutionally protected free speech. American troops have been deployed on the streets of our towns and cities. 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.

......
'Continue to mislead Americans about what is truly at stake, and you will learn that Americans are better at finding the truth than you are at burying it.

'Continue to pursue autopilots instead of penning laws Americans need, and you will learn that you are signing away any remaining chance of being on the right side of history.

'Continue to abet the dismantling of America, and you will learn that it takes more than a wrecking ball to demolish what Americans have built over 250 years.
........


Sincerely,

Bill Clinton
Hillary Rodham Clinton"

https://krassencast.com/p/full-letter-clintons-refuse-to-testify?publication_id=1458862&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=3jvpe3&utm_medium=email#:~:text=Krassencast%20%2D%20Protecting%20Democracy,Hillary%20Rodham%20Clinton

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The Clintons Refuse to Testify before Congress about Epstein. (Original Post) Jrose 5 hrs ago OP
You tell em MustLoveBeagles 5 hrs ago #1
In summary 🖕🫵 underpants 5 hrs ago #2
Amen! calimary 4 hrs ago #3
"You first." --The Clintons Iggo 4 hrs ago #4
Release all of the Epstein files and then, just maybe we will talk. efhmc 2 hrs ago #17
I would have... Mike Nelson 4 hrs ago #5
They should agree to it - when all the files are released leftstreet 4 hrs ago #6
Why on earth should it be "The Clintons" anyway? iemanja 3 hrs ago #7
They want to grill her over anything and everything in the hope that she makes a misstatement or error. LudwigPastorius 3 hrs ago #12
Really, that Trump idiot thinks can she can outwit/think HRC??? efhmc 2 hrs ago #16
Red meat for the idiots. Iggo 3 min ago #28
What they have on Trump must be UGLY. Joinfortmill 3 hrs ago #8
Trump and others were being blackmailed by Epstein ScratchCat 3 hrs ago #10
Don't fuck with Big Dawg! hamsterjill 3 hrs ago #9
Yup. TickTock. Joinfortmill 3 hrs ago #11
I agree. They don't understand who they are dealing with Buckeyeblue 2 hrs ago #13
And he's a hell of Blue_Roses 2 hrs ago #15
"Hillary is smart; Bill is cunning." ShazzieB 2 hrs ago #18
Agree completely hamsterjill 1 hr ago #22
Woop! Woop! Blue_Roses 2 hrs ago #14
Thanks for sharing this letter. ShazzieB 2 hrs ago #19
Meanwhile, after Jim Jordan was subpoenaed in the January 6th hearings Rob H. 1 hr ago #20
This opinion is probably going to be very unpopular on this site, but I think they should testify. They were subpoenaed Fil1957 1 hr ago #21
I agree hueymahl 1 hr ago #23
They are being set up and no lawyer would allow them to go along with it onenote 1 hr ago #24
I agree that the subpoena is based on B.S., but it is still the law of the land, and we cannot expect the other side to Fil1957 46 min ago #26
If you'd gone to the link and read the entire letter... SaveOurDemocracy 55 min ago #25
I gotta give it President. and Mrs. Clinton choie 39 min ago #27

Mike Nelson

(10,925 posts)
5. I would have...
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 12:31 PM
4 hrs ago

... added, "We're following the standard set by Jim Jordan, who refused his Congressional subpoena while serving in Congress," but I'm a bit more snarky than Bill and Hillary.

iemanja

(57,430 posts)
7. Why on earth should it be "The Clintons" anyway?
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 12:42 PM
3 hrs ago

There is no suggestion that Hillary was in anyway involved with Epstein. The GOP has a hard on for her.

LudwigPastorius

(14,223 posts)
12. They want to grill her over anything and everything in the hope that she makes a misstatement or error.
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 01:26 PM
3 hrs ago

That, so Bondi can charge her with perjury and prosecute her.

ScratchCat

(2,691 posts)
10. Trump and others were being blackmailed by Epstein
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 01:07 PM
3 hrs ago

We know this because Pam Bondi stood there and said there was no client list and nobody was being blackmailed. Everything they say is the opposite of the truth.

That's primarily what they don't want out. As others have posted, it goes very far and wide as to who was being blackmailed. Its my belief many have offered Trump large sums of money to keep it under wraps. Given that "everybody" says there is nothing in the files that indicate crimes by Trump, this is about the only legitimate explanation as to why he is trying so hard to not release it all.

hamsterjill

(17,080 posts)
9. Don't fuck with Big Dawg!
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 12:47 PM
3 hrs ago

Bill Clinton may be old and he may be slowing down, but he is still one of the most cunning politicians that I've ever seen. Hillary is smart; Bill is cunning.

Let's see how this unfolds.

Buckeyeblue

(6,208 posts)
13. I agree. They don't understand who they are dealing with
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 01:38 PM
2 hrs ago

He would likely make them look very foolish.

ShazzieB

(22,233 posts)
18. "Hillary is smart; Bill is cunning."
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 02:18 PM
2 hrs ago

And between the two of them, they are a formidable team. They both have more brains in their little fingers than all the Republicans in Congress put together have in their heads.
Comer is so outmatched that he's probably too stupid to realize just HOW outmatched he is. How hilarious is that?

For the record, I have never been convinced that Bill Clinton was involved in Epstein's shady sexual shenanigans. We all know his history of being a horn dog and a skirt chaser, but I'm not aware of any evidence that he chased any skirts that were worn by underage girls. Comer and his ilk may think, or at least hope, differently, OR they may just be leaping at what they see as a chance to intimidate and embarrass two people their party has had it in for since the 1990s. Either way, they haven't just brought a knife to a gunfight. They've challenged the Clintons to a duel with the weapons being an antique musket and a state of the art assault rifle. (I'll leave it to the reader to figure out which side is using which weapon. )

hamsterjill

(17,080 posts)
22. Agree completely
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 02:59 PM
1 hr ago

I've said many times on DU that I believe Bill enjoys flattery and has (obviously) acted on it. That's between him and Hillary. But I have never thought of him as being some kind of pervert, deviant sexual predator like I completely believe Donald Trump to be.

ShazzieB

(22,233 posts)
19. Thanks for sharing this letter.
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 02:35 PM
2 hrs ago

To anyone who hasn't gone to the link and read the whole thing, I highly recommend it, because it's so, so good. They ripped Comey a whole bunch of new ones in the most icily polite manner imaginable. I am in awe of just how well written the letter is.

I'm sure the Clintons have good lawyers who helped with this, but their own brilliant legal minds are all over it as well. Hats off to Bill, Hillary, and anyone else involved, for standing up to Comer and his craven Republican cohorts!

Rob H.

(5,787 posts)
20. Meanwhile, after Jim Jordan was subpoenaed in the January 6th hearings
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 02:47 PM
1 hr ago

he defied that subpoena for more than 600 days and faced zero consequences for doing so. Never forget.

Fil1957

(557 posts)
21. This opinion is probably going to be very unpopular on this site, but I think they should testify. They were subpoenaed
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 02:52 PM
1 hr ago

and by law are required to do so. Just because the other side routinely violates it doesn't mean we should follow their example.

And the right wing media sphere will never let the public hear the end of this, I can hear "Crooked HIliary and Bill" all over again. And the conspiracy theories regarding the Clintons will go into high gear.

The only hope for a return to a lawful society is for at least one side to observe it. Once our side starts violating it, the rule of law is over folks, and it ain't coming back.

The Clinton's are making a huge mistake, which is going to damage our country.

onenote

(45,993 posts)
24. They are being set up and no lawyer would allow them to go along with it
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 03:29 PM
1 hr ago

It would be one thing if the subpoena required Clinton to turn over any material he has referencing Epstein and then was questioned about it. He would have had the opportunity to review those materials.

I have every reason to believe Jordan has access to Epstein-related material that references Clinton but that Clinton may never have seen or saw many years ago. Jordan is looking for "gotcha" moments by questioning Clinton on such documents. No way. As Clinton says --- put it all out there and then, and only then, have a hearing where Clinton can be asked about those documents.

Fil1957

(557 posts)
26. I agree that the subpoena is based on B.S., but it is still the law of the land, and we cannot expect the other side to
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 03:50 PM
46 min ago

appear when they're subpoenaed in the future.

To make matters worse, this isn't going to go away. Far from it. There will be a vote in the house on contempt charges. Then the DOJ will be asked to make arrests and guess what they'll do? Merrick Garland doesn't work there anymore. All this takes time.

So the media, instead of covering the Trump-Epstein connection will be covering the Clinton-Epstein connection.

They should appear, testify, suffer some embarrassment, take the hit and move on. Now they're going to be the center of attention for months with possible arrest at the end.

SaveOurDemocracy

(4,552 posts)
25. If you'd gone to the link and read the entire letter...
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 03:41 PM
55 min ago

…you would have read:

A legal analysis prepared by two law firms and provided to you yesterday makes clear your subpoenas are legally invalid


Bill and Hillary are both knowledgeable and savvy enough not to be drawn into the idiot games this republican congress clown show plays. They both support rule of law and to claim they should allow themselves to be used as a distraction is laughable.

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!!



choie

(6,653 posts)
27. I gotta give it President. and Mrs. Clinton
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 03:56 PM
40 min ago

they wrote a kick ass letter. Would that other current elected officials do the same.

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