Epstein Files

It has been 9,133 days since William Jefferson Clinton was president.

In that time, the World Trade Center has fallen. The first mass-produced product with WiFi, Apple’s iBook, was less than two years old at the time. Broadband internet was rare outside of college campuses. Real smartphones were years away. Barack Obama was an Illinois state senator who had, just four years prior, transitioned from being a “community organizer.”

George W. Bush was replacing Clinton, thanks in part to third-party candidates who took away votes from Democratic nominee Al Gore. One of them wasn’t businessman Donald Trump, who had considered a Reform Party run but decided against it. Liberals and conservatives alike, of course, thought that the possibility itself was silly, and thank heavens it didn’t have to be entertained anymore.

Former President Bill Clinton defied a House Republican committee’s subpoena Tuesday in an escalating battle over Congress’s handling of an investigation of disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer threatened the former president with a contempt prosecution, while Clinton accused the Republican of mounting a partisan campaign to hide, rather than reveal, the truth about Epstein and his powerful connections.

Clinton failed to appear at a deposition for Comer’s panel Tuesday. Instead, the former president posted a letter to the chairman on social media denouncing his investigation and condemning him for resisting successful legislation to force disclosure of Justice Department files on Epstein’s sex trafficking operation.

“If the government didn’t do all it could to investigate and prosecute these crimes, for whatever reason, that should be the focus of your work – to learn why and to prevent that from happening ever again. There is no evidence that you are doing so,” Clinton wrote in a letter co-signed by his wife, former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, who has also been subpoenaed by the panel.

One of the lawmakers behind a new law mandating the release of the government’s Jeffrey Epstein files said he is giving the Justice Department until Friday to comply, while warning there will be consequences if it does not.

The Epstein Files Transparency Act, signed into law last month by President Donald Trump, “calls for the release, publicly, of these files,” Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., told NBC News.

Khanna said the Justice Department has not responded to inquiries about when or how the records will be released but pointed to DOJ’s recent move to unseal grand jury materials as a sign officials may be trying to comply.

The law requires the department to make the files public by Dec. 19.

Khanna said the material could expose how Epstein wielded influence and intimidation.

“The Committee has chosen the date of January 13, 2026, for the deposition of President Clinton and January 14, 2026, for the deposition of Secretary Clinton,” Comer wrote. “If your clients do not comply with these new dates, the Committee will move immediately to contempt proceedings.”

Judge Rodney Smith of the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida, granted the Department of Justice’s request to release the grand jury transcripts from Jeffrey Epstein’s trial.

Smith agreed to the request due to the Epstein Files Transparency Act of 2025.

Smith wrote:

In its instant motion, the Government argues that the newly enacted Act overrides Rule 6(e)’s prohibition on the public disclosure of the grand jury transcripts in this matter. In support of its position, the Government cites Savage Services Corp. v. United States for the proposition “that more recent or specific statutes should prevail over older or more general ones.” 25 F.4th 925, 933 (11th Cir. 2022) (quoting Tug Allie-B, Inc. v. United States, 273 F.3d 936, 941 (11th Cir. 2001)). The Act applies to unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials that relate to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Consequently, the later-enacted and specific language of the Act trumps Rule 6’s prohibition on disclosure. Accordingly, it is

ORDERED that United States’ Expedited Motion to Unseal Grand Jury Transcripts and Modify Protective Order [DE 6] is GRANTED.

House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) warned Bill and Hillary Clinton Friday that if they continue to ignore deposition subpoenas regarding their history with Jeffrey Epstein, he will initiate contempt proceedings.

The House Oversight Committee is conducting a review of the federal government’s investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, focused on potential mismanagement of the case, the circumstances surrounding Epstein’s death, his trafficking network, and possible ethics violations by elected officials.

Comer sent a letter to Clinton attorney David Kendall, emphasizing that the Clintons are required to comply with House subpoenas and appear for scheduled in-person depositions.

According to the chairman, Democrats and Republicans on the Oversight Committee approved a motion to issue the subpoenas back in July.

The Democrats continue to embarrass themselves over the Jeffrey Epstein matter.

I reported on Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s (TX-30) shameless efforts to link Republicans to Epstein donations to deflect from the fact that the convicted sex offender donated to Democrat Delegate Stacey Plaskett, the non-voting delegate from the Virgin Islands.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) has publicly beclowned herself for the second time in a week by falsely accusing several Republican politicians of taking money from “somebody named Jeffrey Epstein.”

“Folks who also took money from somebody named Jeffrey Epstein, as I had my team dig in very quickly—Mitt Romney, the NRCC, Lee Zeldin, George Bush, McCain-Palin,” Crocket declared on the House floor on Tuesday.

Federal campaign finance records show that Epstein donated primarily to Democrats, including two current sitting members of Congress, Delegate Stacy Plaskett (D-V.I) and Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), both of whom have retained the donations, despite scrutiny.

Even worse, newly released documents from Epstein’s estate include text messages between Plaskett and Epstein that show he advised her on what questions to ask President Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen during a 2019 congressional hearing.

President Trump had nothing to hide, and he also knows that his team can easily swat away any attacks lobbed by Democrats over the Epstein Files. They’ve done so before. With Congress pushing through a bill releasing all the files yesterday, some on the Hill are already off to the races and have smashed into a wall, too. It’s imploding, not least because Democrats are named.

Washington continues to attract some of the worst people in America, and Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett (TX-30) is no exception. Her pathological tendencies range from alleged abuse of her staff to repeatedly misrepresenting her wealthy background.

How stupid do you have to be to, when you want to smear your opponents for taking donations from Jeffrey Epstein, not check to see if it’s the right Jeffrey Epstein? Apparently, you have to be Jasmine Crockett stupid. On the floor of the House, she thought she had Republicans in a gotcha. Instead, she gotched herself. Hard.

At issue was Democrat Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett and the attempt to censure her over her – alleged(?) – Epstein ties:

Plaskett was caught texting Epstein, whose primary residence was in the U.S. Virgin Islands, during a 2019 hearing when former Trump attorney Michael Cohen was testifying about his work with the president amid an ongoing probe into Trump’s business dealings and matters tied to the 2016 election.