James Comer Is Effectively Killing the Epstein Investigation
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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
April 22, 2026 / 3:41 p.m. ET
James Comer Is Effectively Killing the Epstein Investigation
A House Oversight Committee memo shows Representative James Comer plans to make big changes to the hearing process, including not requiring witnesses to swear in.

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Republicans have found a new way to conduct the Epstein investigation. Democrats insist its just another attempt to sweep the whole scandal under the rug.
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee flamed House Oversight Chair James Comer in a congressional memo for running scared, accusing the Kentucky Republican of changing the Epstein investigation proceedings into informal roundtables that lack any rules.
In this format, theres no opportunity to consider subpoenas, and no recourse for Democrats to force votes on transparency measures, according to the memo shared among Democratic lawmakers last week.
Perhaps worst of all, the roundtables are designed to look and feel like regular committee hearings, according to the memo, but dont require witnesses to speak under oath. That will effectively void the investigation of any value, giving potential witnesses an opportunity to lie before Congress without consequence.
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Whip-poor-will
(357 posts)Of course they've viewed the snuff films
Justice matters.
(9,923 posts)bucolic_frolic
(55,473 posts)peppertree
(23,406 posts)In his arteries, in his heart, in his guts...
All that pork and fried garbage is still in there, wrecking havoc (though not nearly enough).
PuraVidaDreamin
(4,653 posts)There's so much material we have learned that that rug ain't big enough
to handle that dirt.
Seinan Sensei
(1,592 posts)LymphocyteLover
(9,985 posts)Botany
(77,594 posts)
neck this year.
Donald Trump was part of the biggest organized criminal syndicate in the history of the world
of which Vlad, Epstein, Musk, and Thiel were principal players and the sex trafficking was just
part of their M.O..
Vote Comer he loves little girls. Billboards, internet, TV, Radio, and so on. Kerry fucked up in
2004 by not hanging the August 6th 2001 P.D.B. around Ws neck.
Clouds Passing
(8,089 posts)Botany
(77,594 posts)I think they have video of Comer fucking farm animals. Just saying.
Six117
(349 posts)Those of us who care will not let that happen.
Lovie777
(23,275 posts)orleans
(37,060 posts)GreenWave
(12,701 posts)Volaris
(11,759 posts)The find out phase will be Comers ass on the other side of the table with Bondi and Blanche answering questions about Obstruction.
So keep it up guys, it'll be soooo much more fun for the rest of us LATER...oh, no it's ok we promise, we'll wait.
Oh, yes...we will wait. For as long as it fucking takes.
flvegan
(66,390 posts)Not me of course, but some. I would never just flat out accuse or assume.
That said, rich old pudgy white dude wants to bury the Epstein files? Shit just sort of checks out, but might juuuuuuuuuust be a coincidence.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(136,476 posts)Botany
(77,594 posts)Gang of pedophile protectors.
They know the truth but would rather retain power by having a child raping, sex trafficking piece
of shit who is working with Vlad Putin in the White House, and an election cheating shit, then do
the right thing and expose the truth. But I betya Comer is a Christian too.
Years ago in a middle class neighborhood in Meadville, PA as a child our next door neighbor was
the county D.A. and his brother was Ray Shafer the Governor of Pennsylvania and to this day he was
the finest man I have ever met and a Republican too. For some reason he liked to talk to me as I
was fishing in the little lake behind our houses. He would have had zero time or tolerance for Comer
and the rest of these shits.