Congressional Republicans are threatening to hold Bill and Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress after the Democratic former president and presidential candidate refused to testify in a GOP-led House probe into Jeffrey Epstein.

blistering letter from the Clintons to House Oversight Committee chair James Comer states that “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.”

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    2 months ago

    Here’s why the Clintons say they won’t testify.

    They just told James Comer to go ahead and hold them in contempt - they’ll wait. Their letter, dated today, is four pages of “we see exactly what you’re doing.” The Clintons point out that Comer subpoenaed eight people in his Epstein investigation, dismissed seven without a word, and has interviewed a grand total of two witnesses. Two.

    They’ve got lawyers saying his subpoenas are legally invalid, and they’re calling out the obvious: Comer said nothing when Trump took the exact same position three years ago. The Epstein files only came out because four Republicans broke ranks to force a vote. Comer wasn’t one of them. He won’t subpoena the Attorney General to make DOJ comply with the law Congress passed. But he’s ready to bring the whole chamber to a halt for contempt charges against the Clintons.

    The threat is barely veiled.

    They’re prepared to take this public, make their case to all 45 committee members, and frame the whole thing as Comer protecting his friends while punishing his enemies. They’re basically saying: if you want to grind Congress to a standstill over us instead of passing laws, that works too - we’ll call it our contribution to slowing down the Republican agenda. The letter ends with the kind of line you write when you want it quoted: “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.”

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    5A? You cannot be compelled to testify against yourself nor can you be compelled to testify to anything that might incriminate you. Even if you are innocent, you cannot be forced to testify.

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      You still have to show up and sit there…

      You can’t just text “5a bro” and get out of it.

      Like, it’s on a question by question basis, and he could pull a Lil Woody, but he still has to show up and say “I plead the fifth” everytime they ask a question.

      Lil Woody at Young Thug trial:

      https://youtu.be/3xpwZfeZMMo?t=37

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    “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.”

    And for Bill, that’s being investigated personally.

    He ain’t standing up for us, they’re demanding we stand up for them.

    If either of them are guilty, and it looks like Bill is, then he should face investigation then prosecution if enough is uncovered.

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      And he was open to talk about it, but he will not play the game of having it all be pinned on just him. Thats the message i got out of previous statements and now this