Those Nine Democrats Were Wrong to Vote the Clintons in Contempt

Comer: I didn’t—I wasn’t paying attention to your question.

Stansbury: OK, we’re here pursuant to a motion you brought for contempt. And the claim is that you have made reasonable accommodations and that [the Clintons] have not been responsive. But they have transmitted correspondence to all of the members of the committee … including a letter from their attorneys stating that they have offered … to meet with you on the record with the staff to give sworn statements. Is that correct?

Comer: We, we have negotiated …

Stansbury: Yes or no?

Comer: You all are trying to create a false narrative. You had five months. You should have gotten to the Clintons before the contempt vote.

Stansbury: All I’m asking you is, is that true?

After a little more petty obfuscation from Comer, Stansbury asked him again and was met with silence.

Stansbury: Just to be clear for the public, his staffer [is] advising the chairman to not answer the question.

Comer: No, the staff said they couldn’t understand what you were saying because you’ve blabbered for three minutes.

I encourage you to watch the whole exchange, which begins around 3:40:57. Stansbury was an inspiration. Comer was an embarrassment. So are Stansbury’s nine colleagues who voted for his contempt resolution.

If the details described above don’t interest you, consider the sheer hypocrisy of it. Comer, the Clintons note in their letter, was “silent when the sitting President took the same position, as a president, barely more than three years ago.” That was when Trump refused to show up for a deposition before the select committee on the January 6, 2021, riot. He had no interest in reaching an informal accommodation. In a similar spirit, the Oversight Committee will never ask Trump to answer any questions about Epstein voluntarily. Unlike with Clinton, there’s no shortage of such questions. For starters: What did that birthday card, the one with Trump’s deft drawing of a nude woman (“May every day be a wonderful secret”), actually mean?