Those Nine Democrats Were Wrong to Vote the Clintons in Contempt
Arriving: I didn’t—I didn’t pay attention to your question.
Stansbury: OK, we’re here in response to a motion you filed for contempt. And the assertion is that you have made reasonable accommodations and that [the Clintons] did not respond. But they forwarded correspondence to all committee members…including a letter from their attorneys stating that they offered…to meet formally with you and staff to make sworn statements. Is this correct?
Arriving: We negotiated…
Stansbury: Yes or no?
Arriving: You are all trying to create a false narrative. You were five months old. You should have addressed the Clintons before the contempt vote.
Stansbury: All I ask you is if it’s true?
After some more petty dissembling on Comer’s part, Stansbury asked him again and was met with silence.
Stansbury: Just to be clear for the public, his staff [is] advising the president not to answer the question.
Arriving: No, the staff said they didn’t understand what you were saying because you had been chatting for three minutes.
I encourage you to watch the entire exchange, which starts around 15:40:57. Stansbury was an inspiration. Comer was embarrassing. The same goes for Stansbury’s nine colleagues who voted for his contempt resolution.
If the details described above don’t interest you, consider their sheer hypocrisy. Comer, the Clintons note in their letter, was “silent when the sitting president took the same position, as president, just over three years ago.” This was when Trump refused to appear for testimony before the select committee during the riot of January 6, 2021. He had no interest in reaching an informal accommodation. In the same vein, the Oversight Committee will never ask Trump to voluntarily answer questions about Epstein. Unlike Clinton, there is no shortage of such questions. To begin with: what is this birthday card, the one with Trump’s clever drawing of a naked woman (“Let Every Day Be a Wonderful Secret”), does that really mean?
