I’m no great fan of Hillary Clinton, but she gave a hell of an opening statement:
And to this bit
Mr. Chairman, your investigation is supposed to be assessing the federal government’s handling of the investigations and prosecutions of Epstein and his crimes. You subpoenaed eight law enforcement officials, all of whom ran the Department of Justice or directed the FBI when Epstein’s crimes were investigated and prosecuted. Of those eight, only one appeared before the Committee. Five of the six former attorneys general were allowed to submit brief statements stating they had no information to provide.
You have held zero public hearings, refused to allow the media to attend them, including today, despite espousing the need for transparency on dozens of occasions.
You have made little effort to call the people who show up most prominently in the Epstein files. And when you did, not a single Republican Member showed up for Les Wexner’s deposition.
This institutional failure is designed to protect one political party and one public official, rather than to seek truth and justice for the victims and survivors, as well as the public who also want to get to the bottom of this matter. My heart breaks for the survivors. And I am furious on their behalf.
I have to say fookin’ aye.
It definitely wasn’t her first time defending herself from a partisan farce, for sure.
She’s 100% right.
Unfortunately, in the USA today, being right and $5 will get you a cup of coffee.
Bill and Hillary have always been traditional Republicans. Never actually Democrats in any meaningful sense. Hillary, herself, was a young Republican. Not just any young Republican, but one of the ones involved with investigating Nixon. It was Republicans like Hillary Clinton that Reagan specifically made his 11the commandment to target. She didn’t leave the party, the party left her. Which is not a defense of her horrible policy and decisions. But can you imagine where we would be today. If instead of defending corruption and empowering it, Republicans had chosen to embrace young Republicans like Hillary Clinton? No crooked kooks like Reagan or Bush.
Again, don’t get me wrong. That Republican Party would still be horrible, a party I would never vote for. But how much better would things be? And what a low bar that is.
