REPORT: House Dems Mulling Ultimate Betrayal Of Bill Clinton Ahead Of Contempt Vote

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are leaving the door open to backing a Republican move to hold former President Bill Clinton in contempt of Congress after he failed to show up for a scheduled deposition on Tuesday.

Some Democrats are privately bristling at what they call a hyper-partisan push by Republicans. Still, several say they do not want to be seen shielding Clinton while GOP lawmakers continue to rally around President Trump.

“We want everyone to come in if they know something. They should come in,” Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., told Axios.

Frost said Democrats will wait to see the final language of the contempt measure, but added “there’s definitely a chance” members of his party vote for it.

The standoff stems from the committee’s investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were subpoenaed along with several former attorneys general and FBI directors.

Hillary Clinton is scheduled to testify on Wednesday. Lawyers for the Clintons have told the committee the subpoenas are “invalid and legally unenforceable.”

After Bill Clinton did not appear for his deposition, Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said the panel will move next week to hold the former president in contempt.

Maxwell and Epstein speak with Bill Clinton in 1993

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“We’ve communicated with President Clinton’s legal team for months now … and they continue to delay, delay, delay. Delaying to the point where we had no idea whether they would show up today,” Comer told reporters.

Democrats have accused Comer of selective enforcement, noting that some former attorneys general were allowed to submit written statements instead of testifying in person. A spokesperson for Bill Clinton has said the former president offered to provide a sworn statement, but that the committee rejected the proposal.

Several Democrats said the panel should also subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi over the Justice Department’s failure to release all Epstein-related documents by a congressionally mandated Dec. 19 deadline. Others floated holding Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell in contempt for refusing to give substantive testimony last year without an immunity deal.

“It seems like Comer is selectively enforcing subpoenas,” Rep. Emily Randall, D-Wash., told Axios. “I don’t think anyone should be able to avoid sharing information with the committee.”

Rep. Yassamin Ansari, D-Ariz., said Republicans are fixated on the Clintons but claimed Democrats are focused on the broader probe. “Don’t care about your party … when it comes to [Epstein], we just want to get to the truth,” she told Axios.

Another Democratic member said, “Anybody who has anything to do with hurting women and girls, they should be held to account … I also think that this fixation on partisanship in this conversation is ridiculous.”

A second Democrat, speaking anonymously, echoed that view while still slamming the process.

“We’ve always said from day one we want to talk to everyone. That continues to be the case. And it’s also clear that this is a hyper-partisan attack,” the lawmaker said.

Not all Democrats are on board. Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., who has teamed up with Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., to push for the release of Epstein files, said he opposes holding the Clintons in contempt.

“I don’t think we should hold President Clinton and Hillary Clinton in contempt,” Khanna told Axios.

“We should work with them and figure out what they can tell us, but it needs to be done broad base. The person we need to be holding in contempt is Pam Bondi.”

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