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   WASHINGTON — House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) has   
   ordered Bill and Hillary Clinton to appear for depositions next month   
   for the panel’s investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey   
   Epstein — or face possible contempt of Congress.   
      
   Comer initially subpoenaed the former first couple on Aug. 5 to answer   
   questions about their relationship with Epstein — but the Clintons’   
   attorney in a Nov. 3 response had asked for his clients to make merely   
   “a written proffer of what little information” they have.   
      
   “Given the admission that your clients possess some relevant   
   information, your position amounts to a demand that the Committee forgo   
   in-person testimony, potentially relevant to its legislative oversight,”   
   the powerful GOP chairman said.   
      
   “Additionally, your suggestion that your clients’ testimony would not be   
   relevant to the stated purposes of the Committee’s investigation because   
   the events in question took place outside of the Clintons’ respective   
   official duties misses the Committee’s point,” Comer added.   
      
   “It is precisely the fact President Clinton and Secretary Clinton each   
   maintained relationships with Mr. Epstein and Ms. Maxwell in their   
   personal capacities as private citizens that is of interest to the   
   Committee.”   
      
   The 42nd president has been ordered to appear for his deposition at 10   
   a.m. Dec. 17. His wife, the former secretary of state, was directed to   
   sit for her deposition at 10 a.m. the following day.   
      
   If the former first couple fail to show up in defiance of subpoenas,   
   Comer said he’d begin contempt of Congress proceedings. That would   
   require a resolution to pass out of the House Oversight Committee and   
   then the full House. A criminal referral would then be sent to Attorney   
   General Pam Bondi.   
      
   Under the Biden administration, Trump allies Steven Bannon and Peter   
   Navarro were prosecuted and sentenced to prison for contempt of Congress   
   convictions for failing to comply with subpoenas issued by the House   
   Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.   
      
   Experts have suggested that the former president and former secretary of   
   state may be able to invoke executive privilege to spurn the deposition,   
   though it’s unclear whether that would extend to “their personal   
   capacities.”   
      
   Epstein’s madam Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year   
   sentence for sex trafficking dozens of girls with the deceased   
   pedophile, attended Chelsea Clinton’s wedding in 2010.   
      
   After leaving the White House, Bill Clinton flew more than a dozen times   
   on Epstein’s private jet, later dubbed the “Lolita Express.” Hillary   
   Clinton received donations for a Senate campaign from the financier   
   before his run-ins with the law in the mid-2000s.   
      
   In 2008, Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida to soliciting a minor for   
   prostitution and had to register as a sex offender — yet continued to   
   foster relationships with influential business leaders, politicians and   
   even British royalty.   
      
   Epstein was hit with federal sex trafficking charges in July 2019 and   
   found dead in his Manhattan jail cell on Aug. 10, 2019, while awaiting   
   trial, in what was later determined to be a suicide.   
      
   President Trump’s DOJ concluded this past July that no third parties   
   could reasonably be charged with crimes in connection with Epstein and   
   that the dead 66-year-old had not kept a “client list” or blackmailed   
   anyone.   
      
   After Epstein’s arrest but before he was found dead, a rep for Bill   
   Clinton issued a statement that declared the former president had “not   
   spoken to Epstein in well over a decade” and “knows nothing about the   
   terrible crimes.”   
      
   Clinton attorney David Kendall, in his previous response to the   
   Oversight panel, wrote: “What we have learned over the years about   
   Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell is abhorrent.”   
      
   “The public’s demand for transparency from its government about their   
   criminality is both understandable and warranted,” Kendall said. “Former   
   President Clinton and former Secretary Clinton welcome legitimate   
      
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