Published August 13, 2025 6:26pm Diana Stancy Fox News
‘Hopefully we’ll win that court battle with that subpoena and see President Clinton in October,’ Comer said
Former President Bill Clinton is the “prime suspect” in the House Oversight Committee’s probe looking at the late financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking case, according to the committee’s chairman Rep. James Comer.
“Everybody in America wants to know what went on in Epstein Island, and we’ve all heard reports that Bill Clinton was a frequent visitor there, so he’s a prime suspect to be deposed by the House Oversight Committee,” Comer, a Republican from Kentucky, said in a Monday interview with Newsmax.
Fox News Digital reached out to Comer’s office and received confirmation of his comments to the outlet.
The House Oversight Committee issued a large batch of deposition subpoenas to those with ties to Epstein Aug. 5 — including the former president and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — to testify before lawmakers.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) said former President Bill Clinton is the “prime suspect” in the House Oversight Committee’s probe looking at the late financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking case. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Democrats joined Republicans in voting to move forward issuing the subpoenas. The committee requested Hillary Clinton appear Oct. 9, and Bill Clinton Oct. 14.
“So, hopefully we’ll win that court battle with that subpoena and see President Clinton in October,” Comer told Newsmax.
Clinton has said he has never visited Epstein’s island. Clinton wrote in his 2024 memoir “Citizen” that he’d never gone to the island and that he wished he’d never even met Epstein in the first place.
A spokesperson for Clinton did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
Meanwhile, the case has attracted additional attention after the Department of Justice and the FBI announced in July the agencies would not release new documents from the Epstein sex trafficking case and that their review into Epstein was closed.
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were both indicted on federal sex trafficking charges stemming from Epstein’s years of abuse of underage girls. (Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
The agencies said at the time that they did not track down a list of sexual predators with connections to Epstein, and determined there were no new people who would face charges.
But that’s at odds with efforts by the Oversight Committee, which also issued a subpoena for all Justice Department documents pertaining to Epstein. The committee also issued subpoenas to former FBI Director James Comey, former Attorneys General Eric Holder, Jeff Sessions and Merrick Garland, among others.
The Justice Department faces a Tuesday deadline to submit documents related to Epstein, Fox News Digital previously reported.
Former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former U.S. President George W. Bush attend the inauguration of then President-elect Donald Trump in the U.S. Capitol Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington. (Chip Somodevilla/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
While Comer acknowledged it would prove challenging to actually get the former president to testify before Congress, he remained optimistic about the odds — given his track record.
“I’ve never lost a subpoena battle,” Comer said Monday. “I’ve been chairman of that committee for a year and a half — this is the most challenging subpoena I’ve ever issued, but what makes this subpoena different is that the Democrats voted with Republicans.”
Some people want to distract others with this Epstein scandal….
FAFO….
Now, back to the news about Ukraine…………..
I don’t know what’s coming out of this and you’re right my primary concern are our brothers and sisters in Ukraine.
The Faux News headline says, “Bill Clinton ‘prime suspect’ in oversight probe into Epstein case, GOP lawmaker says”
I can’t imagine why you would have omitted the fact that it was just Comer’s claim the Clinten was a “suspect”. 🙂
“back to the news about Ukraine”
Ironic that you complain when people post articles about trumpkov that are unrelated to Ukraine, but turn around and post this nonsense when you think it looks bad for Bill Clinton.
I added the “update” to the title too and the title was too long. Nothing changed the article though. Funny you make fun of Fox News but always support MSNBC who has lost vast amounts of viewers over the years because of their lies. But you keep humming right along with them, lol…
“always support MSNBC”
When did I ever support MSNBC? I don’t watch it, as I’ve posted here before.
LOL. Headline neglected to include “…according to Comer”. That’s BS, trying to distract from the fact that trumpkov is the top name in the trump/Epstein files.
“we’ve all heard reports that Bill Clinton was a frequent visitor there”
Not from any legitimate sources.
“the Democrats voted with Republicans.”
Actually, House Democrats (joined by 3 Republicans) voted for the “full, complete, unredacted Epstein files to be delivered concurrently to the majority and minority.” Republicans tried to derail this effort by adding amendments to subpoena various Democrats. But the Democrats on the committee said “Fine”.
Because Democrats want to expose all the pedophiles. Republicans are trying to protect their Pedohile-in-Chief.
See the difference?
And you simply skip right over the fact that it was a bipartisan vote…and then lie to the readers here that Republicans are trying to protect POTUS. If that was the case, wouldn’t they refrain from investigating? You are just barely worth my time until you get a connection to Ukraine…………
I wrote, “House Democrats (joined by 3 Republicans)”
How is that skipping “over the fact that it was a bipartisan vote”?
“wouldn’t they refrain from investigating?”
You mean, like how Mike Johnson sent the House home early, in order to avoid a vote on releasing the trump/Epstein files? And how 211 House Republicans voted to block release of the trump/Epstein files, with zero Republicans supporting the measure?
https://newrepublic.com/post/197987/house-republicans-vote-block-epstein-files
Release the Epstein Files!!!
Open the Epstein files and prosecute EVERYONE that was involved in child abuse and trafficking!
We will have to be patient though because Biden didn’t do anything to get the transparency started and legally releasing grand jury docs takes forever.
Baloney. If taco wanted the files to be released, they would be released.
The Epstein records were sealed by a judge until after Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial. They weren’t unsealed until January 2024.
Biden didn’t run a cult. He let the DOJ operate independently – unlike trumpkov, who demands loyalty oaths and treats every agency like his personal operatives.
And no Democrat ran on a platform promising to release the Epstein files. trumpkov did. Then blocked them.
“legally releasing grand jury docs”
Who cares about the grand jury files? The request to unseal grand jury files from Maxwell’s sex trafficking case was always a red herring: grand jury minutes do not include evidence or witness statements and are “largely uninformative.”
In fact, Judge Paul Engelmayer of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York called out the Department of Justice for misleading the public about what the files would reveal. “Its entire premise—that the Maxwell grand jury materials would bring to light meaningful new information about Epstein’s and Maxwell’s crimes, or the Government’s investigation into them—is demonstrably false,” he wrote, and pointed out that the material is already almost all public.
“A member of the public, appreciating that the Maxwell grand jury materials do not contribute anything to public knowledge, might conclude that the Government’s motion for their unsealing was aimed not at ‘transparency’ but at diversion—aimed not at full disclosure but at the illusion of such,” he wrote.
Once again – the trump/Epstein files are in the hands of the DOJ and the FBI. If trumpkov wanted them to be released, all he’d have to do is say to release them.
The *only* thing keeping the trump/Epstein files from being released is the fact that trumpkov’s name is all over them. (Pam Bondi told him that back in May.)
Chuck Schumer posted yesterday:
It’s August 15th, the deadline for Trump and Bondi to release the Epstein files to us under the Rule of 5.
They’re now breaking the law to hide the files.
Sen. Thune must appoint a lawyer to defend the Senate in Court and get the files.
If he chooses complicity – we’ll take them to court ourselves.
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So, which party is it that demands transparency? Hmmm…