Jon Stewart on Tuesday challenged Bill and Hillary Clinton after they refused to testify in the House probe into Jeffrey Epstein, but also called out the Justice Department for its handling of files tied to the late convicted sex offender.
“Is compliance a kind of specialized individual indigenous opportunity or should it be universal?” Stewart asked in a preview clip of his “Weekly Show” podcast.
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Stewart said the Clintons should “abso-fucking-lutely” comply with congressional subpoenas, even after the couple sent a letter to House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) that said the subpoenas were “legally invalid.” The Clintons also questioned why Comer had dismissed other subpoena targets from appearing for depositions.
The GOP-led panel has since threatened the former president with contempt of Congress. Bill Clinton, like President Donald Trump, socialized and appeared in several photos with Epstein. Both have denied any wrongdoing, and neither of the presidents has, so far, been implicated in Epstein’s crimes.
“Despite everything that needs to be done to help our country, you are on the cusp of bringing Congress to a halt to pursue a rarely used process literally designed to result in our imprisonment,” the Clintons wrote in their letter to Comer. “This is not the way out of America’s ills, and we will forcefully defend ourselves.”
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Stewart also questioned why the DOJ was not complying with its release of the Epstein files despite having a legally mandated deadline to drop all of its records linked to the disgraced financier. Fewer than 1% of the DOJ’s Epstein files have been released, Time magazine noted last week.
Stewart then turned his attention back to the Clintons.
“If they’ve got something to hide or — yes, we should know about all this. This is bonkers how long this is going on,” he said.
“But absolutely, they should comply, and the Department of Justice should comply. And these victims of this heinous case should finally get some of the justice and peace that they deserve, for God’s sakes,” Stewart added.
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The next episode of “The Weekly Show” is set to drop on Wednesday.
