Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrive in the US Capitol on January 20, 2025 in Washington for the inauguration of Donald Trump as a president. (Photo Shawn Thew-Pool/Getty Images)
Washington-Komitet for supervision issued on Tuesday a call to the testimonies of former President Bill Clinton and former secretary of State Hillary Clinton, among other former officials of democratic and republican administration, regarding the knowledge of a sex crime in Florida Jeffrey Epstein.
Chairman of the James Comer committee from Kentucky also Call garden The US Department of Justice regarding the Federal Purchase of Epstein on sexual trade. Comer gave the department until August 19 to turn the files.
Comer issued a call to support a bilateral committee at the end of July to force the documentation after President Donald Trump withdrew from the promise of opening files.
Epstein, who confessed to sexual offenses in Florida in 2008, died in a New York prison cell in August 2019, expecting a federal trial on charges of sexual trade. Co-Menage of Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of a wealthy media tycoon, serving a 20-year sentence in a federal prison for her role in the sexual trade program.
The former financier surrounded himself with opulent and powerful characters, including Trump and Clinton, among many other influential people.
List of calls
IN fiction For several former state officials, COMER wrote that congress supervision over the government investigation in the Epstein case is “necessary”.
“The Committee may employ the results of this investigation to inform legislative solutions to improve federal efforts to combat sexual trade and reform the employ of non -contractual agreements and/or contracts for the allegation in investigations on sexual crime. Given your relations with Mr. Epstein and Mrs. Maxwell, the committee thinks that the committee thinks that the committee thinks that the committee thinks
In addition to Clinton, Comer also called on testimonies from:
- Former General Prosecutor Merrick Garland
- Former US prosecutor Bill Barr
- Former prosecutor general Jeff Sessions
- Former US prosecutor general Loretta Lynch
- Former prosecutor general Eric Holder
- Former prosecutor general Alberto Gonzales
- Former director of FBI James Comey
- Former FBI director Robert Mueller
Comer outlined the deadline for testimony in early October.
Comer previously called Maxwell to testify of August 11. According to many media, the legislator Kentucky rejected Maxwell’s request for immunity, but agreed to delay the Committee’s testimony Reports.
Bondi does not release Epstein files
Note in the federal case against Epstein, she swelled after the Department of Justice, under the command of the current prosecutor general PAM Bondi, refused to publicly issue a case file, because Trump promised on the campaign trail.
According to the unsigned Department of Justice on July 7 note“The system review did not reveal the burdensome” client list “, and the department and FBI officials stated that” no further disclosure would be appropriate or justified. “
The declaration caused agitation among the legislators and the Trump voters base, including some in his own administration. Proponents of the president and Trump himself have long been focused on what they describe as “Epstein files” with some conspiracy theories.
House speaker Mike Johnson from Louisiana sent legislators Early house for a failure in August to avoid voices forcing the release of the material.
There were also details of the president’s previous relations with Epstein, including report From the Wall Street magazine, which Trump gave financiers a 50th birthday note containing a mysterious message and outline of a naked woman with characteristic imitating Trump’s hair. The president denied the note and quickly sued the journal.
The mouth also Reported This Bondi informed Trump in May that his name appeared in Epstein materials. The context in which Trump appeared in the files is unknown.
Since then, Trump called for the testimony of a great jury in a case that the judge in Florida negative.
Trump also sent the deputy Prosecutor General Todd Blanche, his former criminal defense lawyer, to interview Maxwell in Florida, where it was held.
Since then, administration moved Maxwell to the facility in Texas.
