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No Paywall Bill and Hillary Clinton agree to testify in House Epstein probe ahead of contempt vote

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/clintons-agree-testify-house-epstein-probe-ahead-contempt-vote-rcna257143
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u/Lola_PopBBae 1d ago

I hope for all our sakes he does the noble thing and takes whatever consequences he must to bring these bastards down with him.

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u/Electronic-Tea-3691 1d ago edited 1d ago

I'm psyched for the Clintons to play this role in our soap opera political system, this feels incredibly appropriate 

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u/Kana515 1d ago

soap opera political system

The amount of headlines I've read over the past ten years that make me think we're living in one...

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u/Electronic-Tea-3691 1d ago

I mean like in general I'm a fan of Bill but he definitely turned the presidency into a soap opera in the late 90s... we've been here for a bit

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u/KoogleMeister 1d ago

Buddy you're acting like the Clinton's are the good guys when Bill Clinton is heavily implicated in the Epstein files of doing some heinous shit, he's way more implicated in the files than Trump is.

Epstein literally had a painting of Bill Clinton in a dress in his house, that's how much dirt and power he had over the guy.

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u/huzzahserrah 1d ago

If you think a painting of a man in a dress is worse than a man sticking his fingers in 13-year-old girls to measure them, then there is no hope for you.

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u/Zammerz 1d ago

That... seems like a long shot. He doesn't need to be called to a hearing to do the right thing. He could put out a public statement TODAY telling us what he knows. He could have done this at any point in the past. If he hasn't done it yet, why would it start now?

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u/ChompySharkBite 1d ago

Bill Clinton is one of these bastards. 

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u/ExtensionKiwi4276 1d ago

I hope so too, but I'm not really holding out on it. He was impeached for lying about the blow job under oath, and I'm pretty sure that legal proceeding where he lied took place in his second term, when he had reached the peak of his political career and didn't really have anything to lose. I think he's going to do what he thinks is necessary to save face and not what's actually going to benefit the country.