“I Will Not Sit Idly as They Use Me as a Prop”: Is Bill Clinton Moving Back Into Contempt?

The Clintons are again suggesting that they might not agree to a deposition after previously yielding to the threat of a contempt vote. Hillary Clinton taunted House Oversight Chair James Comer “if you want this fight…let’s have it—in public.” For his part, Bill Clinton seemed more conclusive on X in opposing a deposition: “I will not sit idly as they use me as a prop in a closed-door kangaroo court.” The question is whether the Clintons are again gaming the system after avoiding a bipartisan vote to hold them in contempt.

As with the Hunter Biden deposition (which was also delayed by such tactics), there are various reasons for holding a closed deposition before public hearings.

First, these depositions allow professional staff to conduct questioning in a methodical and professional manner. In a public hearing, questioning is conducted by members who are often ill-equipped for substantive inquiries.

Second, the Clintons must be asked about a range of documents and communications that contain names and privacy-protected information. At a public hearing, the use of such documents would trigger redactions and interruptions.

Third, these depositions allow for in-depth questioning on transactions and communications. In a public hearing, members are confined to a five-minute rule that guarantees questioning cannot achieve much, if any, depth.

Those are all reasons the Clintons want a public hearing in which members, not staff, ask questions under tight time limits. It produces superficial examinations with little ability to pursue substantive conflicts or issues.

None of this really matters legally. All citizens are compelled to appear at such hearings. They may invoke the Fifth Amendment, but they must appear. Even the Clintons.

However, the Clintons have spent a lifetime gaming the system, avoiding accountability for alleged crimes, including (in the case of Bill Clinton) federal perjury.

This is vintage Clinton. After a bipartisan vote in committee to hold them in contempt, they took a 180-degree turn and agreed to the depositions. The final vote was then cancelled.

Once cancelled, Bill Clinton is again suggesting that he will “not sit idly by” for such a deposition. It is not clear what that means. He will sit for this deposition or be held in contempt like any other citizen.

The declaration could mean anything from laying the groundwork for invoking the Fifth Amendment to another act of defiance of the subpoena. He could be planning to refuse to answer certain questions in a combative approach to the deposition. However, that could still result in a contempt sanction.

Notably, the Clintons have long been able to control the conditions of their questioning. Even with the Independent Counsel, Clinton was able to secure concessions on time and questions. He still tripped the wire and committed perjury, according to a federal court.

This is a rare occasion where they will not dictate such conditions. That raises the intriguing possibility that Bill Clinton could set a precedent by invoking the Fifth Amendment. Otherwise, he may not be idle, but he will be present.

217 thoughts on ““I Will Not Sit Idly as They Use Me as a Prop”: Is Bill Clinton Moving Back Into Contempt?”

  1. Lets try to get our mid around Bill Clinton going to Epstein’s Island and Other properties.

    1. Does the Secret Service still have a detail for Bill Clinton (and Hillary)? Was there SS-Agent(s) on these Epstein visits?

    2. If Bill was visiting the Island, not for sexual encounters, then what was his business with Epstein that needed to be Face-to-Face to preserve confidentiality?

    3. If Bill was not there for sex or business, then what was he there for?

    4. Where are and What are the Agency Briefings Bill Clinton received on Epstein?

    5. When were Bill Clinton’s meeting with Epstein in a time line compared to Hillary Clinton’s Presidential ambitions.

    6. When were Bill Clinton’s meeting with Epstein in a time line compared to Donald Trump’s charges of; Stormy Daniels Hush Money, E. Jean Carroll Case, New York Civil Fraud, Federal Classified Documents (Florida) and Federal Election Interference (D.C.).

    7. What were Bill Clinton’s activities in the period of 2014 to the Present?

    8. If Bill Clinton was not engaging in nefarious activities from time to time, then what was his wife (Candidate Clinton) doing during this time? (She wasn’t exactly a Russian Hoax Denier)

    9. What did Bill Clinton tell Hillary about his whereabouts when he had visits with Epstein? (Honey, I’m going over to the Epstein’s for Pizza and Grape Pop, I’ll be right back)

    10. Did Bill and Hillary Clinton have an “Open Marriage” sometime thereafter the Monica Lewinsky encounter?

      1. No, Pizzagate is not real, whether “basically” or in any other way. Tucker Carlson and Ian Carroll are both filthy liars and neo-nazi propagandists, whose word should not be taken on anything.

    1. NOBODY CARES ABOUT BILL CLINTON. It’s all a MAGA distraction away from Trump, his involvement with Epstein, protection of the wealthy and powerful men who abused little girls and the incompetence of Bottle Blondie.

  2. Juanita Broaddrick
    Leslie Millwee
    Paula Jones
    Kathleen Willey
    Cristy Zercher
    Sandra Allen James

    students at the university confirmed that Clinton had tried to force himself on them when he was a professor

    plaintiffs alleged that the assaults took place shortly after the end of his presidency in the early 2000s, while they were in their late teens.

    Broaddrick, Willey, and Jones reemerged as critics of Hillary Clinton, accusing her of enabling her husband’s alleged sexual assaults on them.

    Broaddrick stated that Bill Clinton raped her and that Hillary Clinton knew about it and tried to threaten Broaddrick into remaining silent

    I am so sorry, Billy. Someone accuse you of something? I can’t believe it! You? Vilhelm! You? No way, u big handsome stud. How dare they?

  3. OT

    The teachers union head in Minneapolis says in a video that members and associates are “running plates” and perpetrating other illegal activities that constitute obstructing, interfering with, stalking and doxing ICE officers.

    1. What does “running plates” mean ?

      If they are accessing non-public government resources – then yes this is a crime.
      But if they are collecting the plates of ICE and then tracking them – that is legal. It may be undesirable, but it is legal,

      DOXing people is usually legal. Using that information to cause them harm or to threaten them is not.

      Don’t get me wrong – zI think the behavior of these “protestors” is excreble, and some of it is definitely illegal.

      But those on the right should not manufacture crimes out of legal conduct they do not like – just because the left did that massively under Biden.

      1. “Running the plates” has only one meaning, and the teachers union officers can only possibly be using an inside police source with the ability to “run the plates,” which can only possibly be illegal.

        Wait, here it is:

        AI Overview

        Based on recent reports, including interviews and social media posts from early February 2026, Marcia Howard, the President of the Minneapolis Federation of Educators, acknowledged that she and other teachers-turned-activists are involved in “running plates” on vehicles associated with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

      2. Running plates of fleet vehicles issued out of a pool? This literally tells no one anything about the particular occupants.

        Making a list of plates that ICE is using from a pool assigned to them means that people can monitor where ICE is operating.

        Get a grip.

        Also, how much is the GRU paying you? It must not be much, but apparently by the word based on the amount you spray out.

      3. “But if they are collecting the plates of ICE and then tracking them – that is legal. It may be undesirable, but it is legal,”

        John, I don’t know, but it appears that it can be illegal if it leads to a crime, and this would constitute a part of a conspiracy.

        I looked up the law, 18 U.S.C. § 371, in federal law, and it appears clear to me.

        The actions of these people are more criminal than most who were arrested on J6.

        1. Conspiracy requires an agreement between all its members that a crime should be committed. Merely collecting information and creating a database is perfectly legal, and so is checking plates against that database. So long as you can’t prove that the people doing so have conspired with the people using that information to commit crimes you can’t charge them with conspiracy. All they have to do is maintain a barrier between them, or at least claim they are doing so; you would have to prove they aren’t.

  4. OT

    What citizens have is not America; it is the “dictatorship of the proletariat (i.e., hired help),” the leeches and parasites of Karl Marx.
    ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

    “Depend upon it, sir, it is dangerous to open So fruitfull a Source of Controversy and Altercation, as would be opened by attempting to alter the Qualifications of Voters. There will be no End of it. New Claims will arise. Women will demand a Vote. Lads from 12 to 21 will think their Rights not enough attended to, and every Man, who has not a Farthing, will demand an equal Voice with any other in all Acts of State. It tends to confound and destroy all Distinctions, and prostrate all Ranks, to one common Levell. I am &c.”

    John Adams to James Sullivan, 26 May 1776

    1. “John Adams was strongly opposed to a government run by what he called the “mob.” He viewed direct, “one man, one vote” democracy as a “bloody” and unstable system that inevitably led to “suicide”. He believed that such simple governments, where the majority held unchecked power, were incapable of protecting individual liberty or property and would ultimately succumb to the same passions—greed, pride, and ambition—found in monarchies or aristocracies.”

      – Gemini (Google)

    1. You have that exactly backwards–MAGAverse tries to set off Trump’s illegality, grifting, using the office of President for personal gain, association with a notorious pedophile, hiding proof of children who were sexually assaulted and trafficked, ignoring of Court orders and norms by spinning the tale that the Clintons are really the bad actors. If they really did all of the crimes MAGA media accused them of, why isn’t there any proof, why haven’t they been arrested, charged and convicted? Little details like that don’t matter in MAGAverse.

      1. ” If they really did all of the crimes MAGA media accused them of, why isn’t there any proof, why haven’t they been arrested, charged and convicted”

        That is exactly the same response we said to YOU a few month ago, clown. You learn fast from this blog, don’t you

  5. Aside from the urge to gleefully reveal the unseemly behavior of some of Epstein’s socially & politically well connected elite friends, it is not at all clear what Federal issue or potential need for new legislation these hearing could possibly uncover. Are there no more pressing issues that Congress should consider? In my opinion, it is time to turn off the Congressional spotlight on the Epstein matter. Any remaining unresolved legal matters should be left as the purview of prosecutors.

    1. Agree 100%! I am sick of seeing Epstein’s face on tv every night!!
      And don’t the news people have anything better to report??

      1. No, they don’t–this is the biggest child sex trafficking ring in US history, and it involves the President, his cronies, members of his cabinet and his wealthy and powerful donors–versus women who were abused and raped as children, and a DOJ under the control of an unscrupulous POTUS who is controlling release of information and protecting pedphiles. The story isn’t going to go away, but Donald Trump will be–sooner or later–and the truth will all come out and the victims will eventually get justice. Until then, legacy media are not, and should not, shut up because Trump and MAGA want them to. Trump has the authority to release the Epstein files in their entirety, but never will as long as he has the power to do so, because, as he told Marjorie Taylor Greene, people he likes better than the victims would get hurt.

        1. The president have never been accused by any of the victims of any wrongdoing. Maxwell has never implicated Trump in any criminal acts. None. Biden’s DOJ had four years to find something and couldn’t. What victims are claiming that Trump assaulted them? That’s right, none.

          1. Trump was accused of rape by a woman who was 13 years old at the time she claims Trump forced her to perform oral sex. Whoever edits for Turley wouldn’t post the an article I posted about this and other accusations against Trump that the FBI didn’t follow up on. The evidence was in the latest tranche of documents, many of which have since been taken down.

        2. “this is the biggest child sex trafficking ring in US history,”
          Probably not, not even close, but it is likely the most affluent caught.

          “it involves the President, his cronies, members of his cabinet and his wealthy and powerful donors”
          That would be president Obama, and President Biden.

          “versus women who were abused and raped as children”
          And they are free to sue, and they should receive monstrously large settlements.

          “a DOJ under the control of an unscrupulous POTUS”
          ROFL

          “who is controlling release of information and protecting pedphiles.”
          Millions of documents have been released and while LOTS of embarrassing material for lots of people has been released,
          There is nothing that proves that anyone committed a crime.

          I am not saying crimes were not committed, only that these documents do not prove that.

          There do not appear to be epstain blackmail videos,
          So you have to presume illegal conduct from association with Epstain.

          You are free to do so – outside of a courtroom.
          In court, proof must be beyond a reasonable doubt.

          “The story isn’t going to go away”
          Correct, like the WTC or JFK assassination – this will never go away
          even after we know all that can be known people will still beleive a smoking gun is being hidden.

          ” but Donald Trump will be–sooner or later–and the truth will all come out”
          If after 10 years of going after Trump you have come up empty – your not going to magically see things glip tomorow.
          At some point most people will accept that after thorough anal probing, absence of proof is proof of innocence.

          “the victims will eventually get justice.”
          How ? The could have sued long ago.
          Do you think the Victims do not know who violated them ?
          They do not need these files released.

          My guess is the Statute of Limitations on crimes has expired – DOJ would have prosecuted otherwise.

          ” MAGA want them to”

          the vast majority of americans – including MAGA want all of this released.

          “Trump has the authority to release the Epstein files in their entirety”
          He does – by law passed by congress, otherwise he actually does not.
          Regardless he has PUBLICLY ordered everything released.

          1. Juanita Broaddrick
            Leslie Millwee
            Paula Jones
            Kathleen Willey
            Cristy Zercher
            Sandra Allen James

            students at the university confirmed that Clinton had tried to force himself on them when he was a professor

            plaintiffs alleged that the assaults took place shortly after the end of his presidency in the early 2000s, while they were in their late teens.

            Broaddrick, Willey, and Jones reemerged as critics of Hillary Clinton, accusing her of enabling her husband’s alleged sexual assaults on them.

            Broaddrick stated that Bill Clinton raped her and that Hillary Clinton knew about it and tried to threaten Broaddrick into remaining silent

            I am so sorry, Billy. Someone accuse you of something? I can’t believe it! You? Vilhelm! You? No way, u big handsome stud. How dare they?

          2. For those unaware: John Say is a paid MAGA apologist. He will argue against anything written about Trump and/or his historically unqualified and incompetent administration.

            1. I think John Say is the name used for a room of propagandists for the GRU operating near Moscow. There may be a repeater node in the US to provide a US based IP address, but the content has enough errors to match those Russians with US schooling.

    2. ” Are there no more pressing issues that Congress should consider?”

      In fact, there are not. Since Trump has decided that following the laws passed by Congress is optional, the Legislature suddenly finds themselves with an enormous amount of time on their hands. They can scold and whine all they want, but Trump will just direct his branch to ignore them.

      At the least there is some entertainment value to watching Trump dance around his behaviors becoming public.

  6. To remove electioneering and partisan politics, should Donald and Melania Trump testify first? Since Trump’s name appears more than other person (over 1000 times) in the Epstein Files.

    To the average person it appears Trump is just trying to help Republicans in the November elections. If this were legitimate by Congress, Donald and Melania should go first.

    1. Trump is protecting his own butt by trying to prevent the Democrats from taking the House and the Senate.

      Entirely self-interest. He has no other principles.

    2. Trump’s name appears more than other person (over 1000 times)

      Well, that proves it! Finally, we have the evidence we sought for so long. Baby, it’s time now. Over 1000 times is a felony requiring at least 500 years imprisonment, solitary confinement, restitution of 76 trillion bucks, no visitation, no yard privileges. Man, WE NAILED HIM. WE DID IT GANG!!

  7. Communist move. denounce and destroy the ‘old guard’ and usher in the new ultra-socialist democrat party.
    It’s in the little red book. There must always be an enemy to point at, “and you’re with US, right?” kind of coercion.
    The desire for social acceptance is the biggest generator of teen rebellion, vandalism and trouble-making, and of course, communism.
    People who don’t like themselves would rather get their worth from ‘belonging’ and ‘going along’. It’s shame driven behavior.

    1. American move. Give the country away to the parasites and leeches.

      What citizens have is not America; it is the “dictatorship of the proletariat (i.e., hired help),” the leeches and parasites of Karl Marx.
      ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

      “Depend upon it, sir, it is dangerous to open So fruitfull a Source of Controversy and Altercation, as would be opened by attempting to alter the Qualifications of Voters. There will be no End of it. New Claims will arise. Women will demand a Vote. Lads from 12 to 21 will think their Rights not enough attended to, and every Man, who has not a Farthing, will demand an equal Voice with any other in all Acts of State. It tends to confound and destroy all Distinctions, and prostrate all Ranks, to one common Levell. I am &c.”

      John Adams to James Sullivan, 26 May 1776

      1. “John Adams was strongly opposed to a government run by what he called the “mob.” He viewed direct, “one man, one vote” democracy as a “bloody” and unstable system that inevitably led to “suicide”. He believed that such simple governments, where the majority held unchecked power, were incapable of protecting individual liberty or property and would ultimately succumb to the same passions—greed, pride, and ambition—found in monarchies or aristocracies.”

        – Gemini (Google)

  8. Today’s Turley MAGA assignment: 1. Ignore Trump losing another court case in which he tried to withhold federal funds appropriated by Congress years ago for construction of a tunnel between NJ and NY unless they would agree to re-name Penn Station and Dulles International Airport after him. Trump is, of course, appealing. It seems that the majority of jobs Trump is creating are in the legal sector. 2. Ignore the fact that the Minnesota US Attorney’s Office is down from 70 attorneys to 17, and that they are dragging in lawyers from the JAG Corps and military attorneys to try to cover the work generated by ICE abuses while they beg for applicants on X without much luck; 3. Ignore the fact that Howard Lutnick LIED when he claimed that he severed all ties to Epstein after he and his wife walked into Epstein’s mansion in Manhattan in 2005 and saw the massage tables. Lutnick claimed he realized Epstein was a “creep”, but the disclosures prove he was in business with Epstein for at least a decade after that, and his family and he were Epstein’s guests on Lolita Island; AND that he kept doing business with Epstein even after his first conviction for child prostitution. In better times, this would be more than enough for Lutnick to hit the road and even be prosecuted. Not any more, not since MAGA took over our government, and that, of itself, is a story; 4. Ignore the fact that JD Vance was roundly booed at the Winter Olympics, even though US athletes were cheered; 5. Keep ignoring the fact that the Epstein file release concealed the names of wealthy and powerful men who raped little girls, but outed numerous victims and survivors, included nude photos of some of them, including the driver’s license of one of them; these victims are afraid to name the wealthy and powerful men who abused them without backup with the documents in the Epstein files. Trump knows that, which is why he commanded Pammie Jo to withhold most of the files, redact the names of his powerful and wealthy friends, and why she has outed some of the victims as an intimidation tactic; 6. Ignore this query, reported by one social media user who tweeted on Wednesday, February 4: “Will Kid Rock be singing his song ‘Cool, Daddy Cool’ that contains these lyrics: ‘Young ladies, young ladies, I like ‘em underage,’ ‘See some say that’s statutory.’ ‘But I say it’s mandatory.'” Yeah, that actually DOES fit right in with Trump and his ilk–AND the White Christian Nationalists have no problem with this, either, which, itself, is a story. What version of Christianity consciences rape of children without accountability? What version of American jurisprudence consciences the Department of “Justice” protecting child predators and intimidating victims of the biggest child sex ring scandal in our history–one in which the POTUS is directly involved and is controlling the release of information? 7. Ignore the fact that Trump has demanded that Republicans take over the midterm elections, admitting that he KNOWS he will be impeached. This included seizing ballots from the 2020 election. Bannon declared that ICE will be surrounding polling places. ICE has no jurisdiction in state election matters, so it’s abundantly clear that Trump is using ICE as his personal army to try to intimidate people from voting and otherwise as a show of force–he sent ICE to Milan, which has upset the Italians to no end. What are they doing there? There has never been anything resembling proof that non-citizens vote in substantial numbers–but that’s not the point–it’s intimidation in blue cities in swing states, like Detroit, Philadelphia and Atlanta. This is the biggest existential threat to democracy ever.

    But, hey–Bill Clinton is the big political story here–right? Only in MAGAverse. The disciples need diversion and affirmation.

    1. We all need to pray for this individual, clearly the strain of their (he or she, no indication) obsession with Trump and loose association with facts and information around such facts, they is really cracking.

    2. What you’ve just described, and so perfectly, is the CLINTONverse. Clinton disciples have blazed the trial, set the bar, for the blind-following of criminals.

      Clinton-sycophants have affirmed a Clinton history rife with the strange trail of deaths, connections to cocaine, impeachment, abuse and defamation of women, theft of disaster relief funds, initiated and snubbed the Benghazi murders, the horrors of the Weiner Laptop, HRC’s-emails (Seth rich), and the Steele Dossier….

      And who needs diversion???

    3. Deaf ears. The MAGA crowd can ignore their nose in front of their face if the talking points come from Fox and Trump

      1. Whjat is being ignored ? Half the View is in the epstain files AFTER Epstain was sent to jail for sex offenses ?

    4. So your argument is a song ?
      Do you think Kid Rock is the only rocker who has ever written a song like that.

    5. ” Ignore Trump losing another court case in which he tried to withhold federal funds appropriated by Congress years ago for construction of a tunnel between NJ and NY unless they would agree to re-name Penn Station and Dulles International Airport after him. ”
      Dulles is in VA, your just not credible – ever.

      Regardless – who cares ?
      Inconsequential case – assuming you are not lying about it.
      More impantly the 5th Cir cT of appeals. found that judges can NOT release illegal alleins on Bond while they file habeuas claims.
      Why ? Because that is LITTERALLY what law passed by congress decades ago says.

      While only applying to the 5th Cir. that is where most are detained.

      Further f it is appealed – SCOTUS will decide the same and it will apply nationally.

      ” It seems that the majority of jobs Trump is creating are in the legal sector.”
      They are primarily private working class jobs.
      Government jobs are declining.

      “Ignore the fact that the Minnesota US Attorney’s Office is down from 70 attorneys to 17”
      Hallelujah. More left wing nut “career” left wing nuts gone

      “that they are dragging in lawyers from the JAG Corps and military attorneys to try to cover the work”
      They will have no problem hiring replacements.
      These will be Career DOJ attorneys that democrats will not be able to easily fire.

      “generated by ICE abuses”
      What abuses ?
      detaining and deporting criminal illegal aliens is their job.

      “while they beg for applicants on X without much luck;”
      Do you really think that DOJ will not be able to find lawyers that will do this job gleefully ?
      In my community the local DA’s office is loosing prosecutors who are going to work for ICE.

      “Ignore the fact that Howard Lutnick LIED when he claimed that he severed all ties to Epstein after he and his wife walked into Epstein’s mansion in Manhattan in 2005 and saw the massage tables. Lutnick claimed he realized Epstein was a “creep”, but the disclosures prove he was in business with Epstein for at least a decade after that, and his family and he were Epstein’s guests on Lolita Island; AND that he kept doing business with Epstein even after his first conviction for child prostitution.”
      As did Whoopi Goldberg. LOTS of people have questionable relations with Epstain – except Trump.
      There is no actual evidence of anything but animus between Trump and Epstain after Trump threw him out of MAL for suspicious conduct with underage MAL staff.

      “In better times, this would be more than enough for Lutnick to hit the road and even be prosecuted.”
      I do not trust you to report ANYTHING truthfully. But even assuming you are correct – What are you prosecuting Lutnick for ?
      Do you have a victim who has come forward ?

      One of the huge problems with the Epstain files – which I have pointed out repeatedly, is they are NOT going to prove anything beyond questionable choices in assosiating with him.

      If you want to convict people – you need the victims to come forward and identify their abusers.

      ” Ignore the fact that JD Vance was roundly booed at the Winter Olympics”
      The olympics have become like Hollywood awards shows – no one cares.

      “Keep ignoring the fact that the Epstein file release concealed the names of wealthy and powerful men who raped little girls”
      But they do not. Please cite anything in the Epstain files that even comes close to evidence of misconduct ?

      To be clear – no one is saying there was no misconduct.
      Just that Everyone has been delusional in beleiving the files would provide evidence.
      They dont.

      ” but outed numerous victims and survivors”
      Which is what happens when you rush things.
      Even DOJ can not propertly redated millions of pages in a few weeks.

      I mostly do not care about the Epstain files.
      Certainly evidence of positive interactiosn with Epstain – particularly after 2008 cast doubt about the character of those mentioned.
      If you wish to convict them in the court of public opinion – be my guest. Most of those mentioned are democrats, and celebrities.
      But you can publicly dam whoever you please.

      But you can not prosecute anyone based on these files.
      They do not prove crimes. They are not even credible evidence of crimes.

      I have no problem prosecuting people who can be prosecuted.

      You rant about “outing victims” – this is what happens when you demand access to government investigative materials.
      You expose the innocent and the guilty, it is what this was a bad idea.

      But if you have enough to prosecute – especially if you have a victim who will come forward – they should take their abusers to the cleaners.

      “these victims are afraid to name the wealthy and powerful men who abused them”
      Why ? backup is trivial. Anything DOJ has a victim can subpeona.

      We did not need this circus, and no even perfectly releasing files would not serve the victims.

      “What version of Christianity consciences rape of children without accountability?”
      None.
      What version of justice imprisons people without evidence ?

      “Trump has demanded that Republicans take over the midterm elections”
      Just as democrats seek to do,
      it is called politics.

      “admitting that he KNOWS he will be impeached.”
      Of course he will – democrats are nuts.
      If democrats take the house – Trump will be impeached again.
      It will go nowhere.
      and no one will care

      Your the little boy who cried wolf.

      “This included seizing ballots from the 2020 election.”
      Why arent these public record ?
      Why werent they provided to the GA Election board as required by US and GA law ?
      Why weren’t they provided to DOJ when requested as required by US and GA law ?

      Why does Fulton County even want them ?
      The only reason they have not been destroyed is that they were ordered preserved by the courts while the Willis Trial was still ongoing.
      States can delete election records after 22 months – absent a court order to preserve them.

      Fulton County has no interest in these anymore EXCEPT to avoid getting caught for fraud.

      “Bannon declared that ICE will be surrounding polling places.”
      Bannon is not president,

      “ICE has no jurisdiction in state election matters”
      Correct, but they do have jurisdiction over illegal immigration.
      There are not enough ICE agents to put one at 1/5th of polling places in the US.
      But If ICE has reasons to beleive illegal immigrants might come to specific polling places – they can “stake them out”
      This is not going to happen.
      But I am 100% OK with illegal immigrants BELIEVING that trying to vote will get them deported.
      Aren’t you ?

      “so it’s abundantly clear that Trump is using ICE as his personal army to try to intimidate people from voting”
      Nothing is abundantly clear. But even your lunatic claim still only goes logically as far as Trump is trying to intimidate illegal aliens from voting.
      I would bet 99% of the country is OK with that.

  9. The Clintons do not need to sit for Anybody or Anything[.]
    You know Why Jonathan,
    Because this is not a CONSTITUTIONAL Democracy

  10. Having lived through what the “meaning of ‘is’ is”, and the blue dress that both humiliated and made blatant liars out of both Bill and Hillary, the fact that we can keep torturing them and making them spend their ill-gotten criminal profits on this high-profile defense attorney is the best part of this whole thing.
    It’s so very entertaining, but the icing on the cake is that Democrats did it all themselves by demanding the release of the Epstein files, thinking they would take down Trump.
    Oopsies, y’all! 😉

    1. You got it. I said earlier that this is exactly what would happen and it is sweet indeed. Trump will not allow slick to bs his way out of this one. Not out of hatred, though the Clinton’s are despicable animals, who lowered the morality of the U.S. substantially. The DOJ under him will demand accountability. They don’t fear slick. They will thrash him with a winnowing fork and until he gets honest.

    2. We don’t care if it takes down Bill. We do care if Trump directs the FBI to cover up Trump’s involvement.

      They blacked out the word “don’t” because a pattern recognizer was told to black out variations of “don t” AKA Donald Trump.

      1. frequent communications between Maxwell and Clinton
        traveled on Epstein’s plane at least 16 times.
        emails between Maxwell and Clinton were flirtatious or lewd in nature; in one message, Maxwell said that the recipient was “hung like a horse,”

  11. What struck me as curious is that the Clintons had quite unequivocally defied closed-door appearances pursuant to the subpoenas for a very. long. time. They’ve taken various alternative positions/stances but still refused Comer’s demand. Notwithstanding the pending House vote on contempt charges, they were still holding out.
    Then suddenly:
    (1) On Friday, January 30th, we have the largest release yet of cache/trove Epstein files/records/docs/tapes/videos, etc. (some three+million?). Importantly, but nothing new involving the Clintons made any headlines.
    (2) After the weekend (Jan. 31-Feb 1st Clinton team review of the new releases?), on Monday morning (Feb 2), the Clintons agree to Comer’s depositions.
    Equally important as the pending House vote on Feb. 4, were they waiting as long as they could for the release of the mess of forthcoming files before they agreed?

    1. As the products of wealth, power, deception, rape and lies enfold you, and push you along the bow wave, and you press on God’s waiter your last dime, as he hands you the bill, and you spin in slipstream

      It’s going to hurt

    2. Unlike Trump, who could clog an outhouse flushing classified documents, the Clintons actually know how to prepare for foreseeable events. I expect they have had a response in the waiting for a decade or more and merely needed a few weeks delay to update it and themselves.

      Recall how Secretary Hillary went around 10 Hours of congressional questioning without breaking a sweat while Kavanaugh and his Republican backers were reduced to tears over what they said were unfair accusations. The sort of crying one does when caught.

      The thing is, no one is worried about getting caught telling the truth. Donny “I plead the 5th” Trump has got to be sweating his clown paint off about now.

  12. So, Jonathan and anyone else enjoying pouncing on the Clintons, whom the current occupant of the White House makes look like Teresa of Avila and Francis of Assisi, what legislative purpose underlies these subpoenas? You were once pretty fair on constitutional law before you sold your soul to FoxNews, tell me why these hearings have any relevance to what Congress is assigned under the constitution.

    1. Whoa there, Nellly! Teresa of Avila and Francis of Assisi???

      Neither Trump, nor any other “saint” on earth has a trail of 50+ dead bodies, all of them personal friends, colleagues, and close-acquaintances, all conveniently dead on timely coincidences with Clinton misdeeds, and the most bizarre record of unbelievable “suicides” ever recorded.

      Legislative purpose? Sunlight on the most corrupt couple in American political history. Bringing these political monarchs to justice. Finally.

    2. I do not think we should be subpoenaing former presidents over stuff like the Epstain files.
      I do not think that congress has a legitimate purpose for most everything epstain related.
      I do not think these records should have been releases – I think the 4th amendment prohibits the releaseof investigative material without a prosecution.

      If DOJ has any cases that can be made -= it should prosecute.
      If victims wish to sue – they should take their abusers to the cleaners.

      But people left and right are crazy over epstain files.
      Most everyone thinks it is going to take them somewhere useful politically – it is not.

      But I do understand everyones fascination. But it does not alter the fact that all of this is unconstitution.
      The govenrment speaks through prosecutions.

  13. Why never a column of analysis on the Democratic Party itself, rather than just those in it? Whether it’s Clinton, Nadler, or some university professor rage queen, his Democrat party provides Professor Turley with an endless and bountiful supply of grist to feed into his financial mill, as he grinds out one column after another. A normal person, like Alan Dershowitz, by now would have announced “I’m done with you”.

    1. “Why never a column of analysis on the Democratic Party itself, rather than just those in it?”

      Because Prof. Turley, as a consummate victim of his past and his upbringing, cannot envision himself as anything other than a loyal Democrat. Speculation on my part, but it fits all of the available evidence of which I am aware.

      1. The disguise of being a Democrat (no evidence that he supports any Democratic Party position) he wears allows him to pretend this is some sign that there is major dissent in the Party in an effort to erode confidence in Party membership and Party leadership.

        The technical term is “False Flag” and he’s done it for a very long time.

  14. Clearly, opprobrium hounds the Clintons. Except for leaks, I’m not optimistic that we will be privy to the actual process, as Johnathan has described. Maybe news if the Fifth Amendment is taken. Our system is built to handle freeplay in the joints. The rub is time against the 24/7 news cycle. We’re not always as patient as quality governance needs.

  15. Really. The modern left is no longer a political party, and these two and their associates were some of its biggest architects. Consequences, no consequences – there is nothing to redeem there. Vote your little behind off in opposition in November.

      1. Of course you do. You want free stuff, don’t see the ultimate disastrous consequences of the Dem policy of stealing from the productive normal citizens and using the proceeds to buy votes from the illiterate, uneducated and privileged.

        Oh, and, like all Dems, you are a coward, hiding behind an anonymous screen name.

        1. Trump promised $2000 for everyone. How is that not “free stuff”?

          Practically it isn’t; Trump makes promises that he never keeps and the money he was going to put into those checks was money stolen from the importers and buyers of imported items, transferring part of the money from those buyers to those who didn’t buy.

      2. Why? What do you like about Democrats?

        They owned slaves
        They denied rights to blacks
        They have black political plantations

        They cheat and steal

        They have bad foreign policy and bad economic programs.

        What do you like about Democrats?

        1. The present Democratic party is based on the Northerners who did not own slaves and were concerned with the civil rights movement. The former Southern Democrats switched parties rather than give their former property any consideration at the ballot box and became the current Southern Republicans. The Northern Republicans, seeing their popularity waning in the face of the civil rights movement threw in with the former southern slave holders. This is why the majority of southern states are red/conservative/Republican states.

    1. There isn’t a Republican party anymore. It’s the Trumplican party and has been for more than a decade. The Republicans all look solely to Trump for their guidance, pledge their allegiance to Trump over allegiance to America, and have even worshiped a golden idol in the shape of Trump.

      Perhaps they will copy the example of David Koresh or Jim Jones followers.

      We see the way that the followers of Charlie Kirk and Rush Limbaugh essentially evaporated after their bloviating tin gods died; the spark of hatred dies out and whatever light was lit by it goes dark.

  16. Perhaps he wants to avoid answering questions related to this, Flight logs show Bill Clinton flew on sex offender’s jet much more than previously known
    “Former President Bill Clinton was a much more frequent flyer on a registered sex offender’s infamous jet than previously reported, with flight logs showing the former president taking at least 26 trips aboard the “Lolita Express” — even apparently ditching his Secret Service detail for at least five of the flights, according to records obtained by FoxNews.com.”
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/flight-logs-show-bill-clinton-flew-on-sex-offenders-jet-much-more-than-previously-known

    1. Avoid? And maybe not. So what he flew on a jet. More than known? Are you really that f-ing stupid to postulate facts that don’t exist and then source fox?

      1. Are you really that f-ing stupid to postulate facts that don’t exist

        Are you really that f-ing stupid that you believe everybody wants to see the same Democrat childrens’ matinee showing of the Democrat Commie Clown Show? Mirrors are your kyrptonite.

        Projection:
        Channeling one’s actions onto others typically refers to the psychological concept of projection, where a deeply emotionally disturbed individual unconsciously or deliberately attributes their own thoughts, feelings, and anti-social or criminal behaviors onto someone else.

        This is an internal defense mechanism which allows mentally ill people to avoid confronting their own behavior and guilt by seeing it instead as as the thoughts and actions of another person who they despise and hate.

      2. “Are you really that f-ing stupid to postulate facts that don’t exist”?
        Hillary, you said the same thing about Benghazi and the Steele dossier. Is the 3rd time a charm?

      3. Oh! No! The annony moron is all butt hurt I brought facts to the table, as in official flight logs!! What is the matter annony? Facts hurt?
        How marvelous!!! 🙂

  17. Let’s be purely honest; there really are some individuals who are above the law. . . . That is life . . . It is what it is.

    1. The Clintons may skate but what damage will be done, by their nefarious behavior, to the democrat party? It’s all about the mid terms boys and girls.

  18. My opinion, Epstein may have bribed people to facilitate his suicide. Like so many hardcore narcissists, once he was ruined, he probably decided to off himself, but he went one step further–he did it in a way that would leave enemies and ex-friends in chaos for years.

    If so, it worked. Now, both sides beat each other over the head with Epstein’s bones. I have to give it to ol’ Epstein, he’s not only the most successful blackmailer in history, but he’s also now the most successful hoaxer. Any proceeding–Democrat or Republican–will have him smiling at the table, like Banquo’s ghost.

    At some point, Washington needs to let the courts handle Epstein’s ghost and move on, but that can’t happen until Democrats stop staging show trials in deranged venues like NYC and Fulton County. I doubt that will ever stop. The Clintons could say something about what was perpetrated against Trump, but I know they won’t.

    So… what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Sad but Epstein wins again.

      1. Seems outrageous to me too, Dad. Why not just go for the obvious: Jeffy had no friends in power and his ‘clients’ would rather see him dead than testify. So Jeffy had no bargaining chips and you know how it goes for pedos in the big house without friends, right?

    1. “Epstein may have bribed people to facilitate his suicide. Like so many hardcore narcissists, once he was ruined, he probably decided to off himself, but he went one step further–he did it in a way that would leave enemies and ex-friends in chaos for years.”

      I doubt that very much. One item that has been conspicuously missing from discussions of Epstein’s “misbehavior” is motivation. Now, I, probably like most people upon learning of the prurience and perversion for which he was responsible, figured that he was a warped sexual deviant who had the money to indulge himself, and that it went no further than that.

      But I am seeing an undercurrent in the recently released information (particularly that in regard to Bill Gates) that suggests a different primary motive. What if Epstein wasn’t a pervert at all, or if he was, but that was only incidental to his conduct? What if the entire scheme was solely intended to manufacture evidence that would allow him to blackmail the rich and powerful, the world’s movers and shakers? What if, even after his conviction and imprisonment, he remained knowledgeable about all kinds of perverted misdeeds (up to and including murder?) by those powerful individuals that had not yet seen the tiniest glimmer of daylight?

      That could be more than sufficient motivation for his murder. And if you do not think that any one of those individuals, with virtually unlimited power and money at his or her disposal, could procure the murder of a prison inmate, to be successfully disguised as suicide, even of a target that was much better surveilled and protected than was Epstein, I would suggest that you are quite naive. If my speculation is correct, the remaining question is chiefly one of motivation.

      Did Epstein want riches even beyond the largess that he already enjoyed? Did he aspire to be the prime mover of world events, completely hidden from view? Or was he in the employ of a powerful political agency that controlled him, as he sought to control others?

    2. Well, the NYC medical examiner, the DOJ’s Inspector General, and the FBI all adamantly came to the same conclusion: Epstein committed suicide. None of them have since recanted. If you want to create homicide theories, that requires a vast criminal conspiracy of public officials from both parties.

      I’m sticking with suicide.

      Now about the bribery:
      Epstein’s cellmate was transferred with no replacement THE DAY BEFORE, and
      Epstein’s cell cameras went on the fritz and yet NOBODY NOTICED, and
      The guards failed to make the REQUIRED 30-minute checks that night.

      While there might be innocent explanations for those things happening individually, for all three to happen at once takes a lot of bad luck–or bribery. Epstein probably figured it out. That was the first time in 21 years that that facility had had a successful suicide attempt.

      I’m sticking with my theory.

    3. It was WIlliam Barr’s responsibility to ensure that Epstein remained alive while in federal care.

      How curious it is that the most important detainee in the Federal system at the time was left alone and without video recording.

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