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Gaugamela

(3,575 posts)
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 12:32 PM Jul 2025

House Oversight Committee subpoena's Ghislaine Maxwell

The House oversight subcommittee has approved a motion to issue a subpoena for imprisoned Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell to testify before Congress.

The motion was offered by Republican congressman Tim Burchett, of Tennessee, during a hearing of the subcommittee on government operations. According to Axios, Burchett said he did not consult Donald Trump, who has been trying to put the controversy to bed, beforehand.

Oversight committee chair, Republican congressman James Comer of Kentucky, directed Burchett to introduce the motion and will seek to subpoena Maxwell “as expeditiously as possible”, a committee spokesperson told Axios.

Comer told Axios he also did not speak with Trump or House speaker Mike Johnson about the matter.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jul/22/trump-epstein-mike-johnson-congress-vote-politics-latest-updates
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yourout

(8,875 posts)
1. Yeah like she's going to tell the truth.
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 12:36 PM
Jul 2025

I'm sure she's been informed if she wants to keep breathing she has to keep her mouth shut.

Ocelot II

(131,252 posts)
4. She's appealing her conviction, hoping to get a new trial.
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 12:45 PM
Jul 2025

While that's a long shot, in the meantime she's likely to plead the 5th on a lot of questions. But Trump has probably offered her a pardon in exchange for testimony that protects him as well as for any future perjury prosecution. Of course that would stink so much that even the GOP might notice the odor, but would Trump even care?

Ninga

(9,034 posts)
2. Yep. Johnson and the WH left out of the loop. What happens next will be interesting. How does trumplethinskin sand
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 12:36 PM
Jul 2025

bag this……..

BoRaGard

(7,591 posts)
6. This is archetypal
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 12:51 PM
Jul 2025

throwing the woman on the sacrificial altar for public humiliation and revilement,
while the men go have a beer at their elite gourmet G.O.P. Golffe Clubbes.

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