Rep. Raskin: Comer Set A Very Clear Precedent, Ex-President Donald Trump Will Be Subject To Congressional Subpoena
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) on CNN spoke about the precedent being set for former presidents being called to testify before Congress:
KASIE HUNT, CNN HOST: All right, we’re running out of time, so I want to shift gears to talk about Jeffrey Epstein because, of course, Bill and Hillary Clinton are slated to talk to the House Oversight Committee to testify. Hillary Clinton today out there saying, let’s turn on the cameras, let’s do it in public. Do you think the Clintons are handling this situation the right way? REP. JAMIE RASKIN (D-MD): Well, look, they have entered into an agreement to come in and testify. So, yes, absolutely. I mean, unlike Attorney General Bondi, who is withholding three out of six million documents that were supposed to be turned over and meantime failed to redact the names, the identities, the ages, the other kinds of identifying information from actual victims. So the Clintons seem to be complying with their subpoena and they’re coming forward and they’re saying that they want to testify as they should, as everybody should who’s subpoenaed by Congress. But we have a major problem with the Trump administration working with the Department of Justice to continue to sandbag the investigation and withhold millions of documents that have been compelled both by subpoena and by a federal law. HUNT: What kind of precedent does it set to have a former president? Come in to testify under subpoena. RASKIN: It sets a very clear precedent. I know that Chairman Comer has been patting himself on the back, that he’s bringing the Clintons in because he views this through an entirely partisan lens, which is pathetic. He’s not listening to the actual survivors and the victims of this billion dollar international child sex trafficking ring, which really profoundly damaged and impaired the lives of hundreds or thousands of people. But any event, you know, he’s chortling because the Clintons are coming in. But what it means, of course, is that every future president, every future ex-president, including the current occupant of the White House, will be subject to subpoena.
