Clintons refuse to testify in House’s Epstein investigation

Former President Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that they will refuse to comply with a congressional subpoena to testify in a House committee’s investigation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

- STEPHEN GROVES

REP. James Comer (R-Ky.), center, and Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), right, speak to reporters on Tuesday.

(BILL CLARK CQ-Roll Call)

The Clintons, in a letter released on social media, slammed the House Oversight probe as “legally invalid” even as Republican lawmakers prepared contempt of Congress proceedings. The Clintons wrote that the chair of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), is on the cusp of a process “literally designed to result in our imprisonment.”

“We will forcefully defend ourselves,” wrote the Clintons, who are Democrats.

They accused Comer of allowing other former officials to provide written statements about Epstein to the committee, while selectively enforcing subpoenas against them.