House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer claimed Tuesday that Ghislaine Maxwell, the sex trafficker and former Jeffrey Epstein associate, “exonerated” Donald Trump in her Department of Justice interview.
During testimony before the House Rules Committee the same day Comer’s committee published mostly old Epstein documents, Comer was asked about potentially holding a hearing on Maxwell’s transfer to a different—and some say cushier—prison after speaking with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in July. But Comer didn’t seem to be on board with it.
“You want to have a whole hearing, a whole entire hearing not about the victims, not about a government coverup, not about human trafficking, but about Maxwell, who you all were begging to be deposed, and I did the subpoena.” he told New