Comer: Clintons should think ‘long and hard' about defying subpoena
'If someone doesn't comply with a subpoena — we've seen it happen in the past, in both my committee, as well as on the Jan. 6 committee, when the Democrats had the majority — and you can hold them in contempt of Congress. And with a Republican attorney general, that's something that I think that the Clinton legal team is going to think long and hard about,' Comer said during an appearance on NewsNation's 'The Hill.'
'You're not going to have a lot of sympathy, probably — from the Trump DOJ — if the Clintons failed to comply with a bipartisan, congressionally approved subpoena, which is what that was,' he added.
Comer said bipartisan support is going to make it hard for the former president to dodge the congressional investigation.
'Obviously, when you subpoena a former president, your odds aren't the best at getting them in, if you look at history. But what makes this different is this subpoena was approved in a bipartisan manner by a subcommittee vote,' he told anchor Blake Burman.
'So you had Democrats and Republicans on the record voting to subpoena that whole list you showed, and there were Republicans and Democrats on that list. In addition to those subpoenas, I also subpoenaed [Attorney General] Pam Bondi for Epstein files,' he continued.
In recent weeks, the Trump administration has been facing intense backlash over how it has handled information related to Epstein, the convicted sex offender who died in 2019. The backlash has come from both MAGA faithful and left-wing progressives.
Comer has taken the lead in a lengthy committee-led investigation.
The Kentucky lawmaker told Burman that 'at the end of the day, I've been ordered by Congress to take the lead in this investigation, and we expect to get everything that we could legally get.'
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