James Comer is effectively killing the Epstein investigation: A House Oversight Committee memo shows Representative James Comer plans to make big changes to the hearing process, including not requiring witnesses to swear in.
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James Comer is effectively killing the Epstein investigation: A House Oversight Committee memo shows Representative James Comer plans to make big changes to the hearing process, including not requiring witnesses to swear in.
Source: OkayButFoRealz
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So not a hearing then. Just letting people say whatever the they want. They do that now, but at least the law is there.
Wrong…many of us will keep it alive…the Grand Old Pedophiles have to do better…
comer never misses an opportunity to burnish his legacy with more pig shit.
Guess we will have to find all these fucks accountable once the county is sane again.
So… wait till after the election? Two can play that game. It would be for their own good to quickly finish the investigation with the bare minimum amount of hearings to make sure the people are annoyed when the other party wants to re-open it.
Republicans pulling all the stops to protect pedophiles.
guess he wants to muddy the waters before the Dems get a chance for real hearings next year
This should be a wake-up call for the entirety of American culture; something went terribly wrong, and that something is the abject worship of rich people.
Epstein got rich figuring out how to give wealthy men a product that they couldn’t get anywhere else.
And the Republican Party is desperate to bury it of course, because the list of these people is practically the same list as the list of their biggest donors. Reagan has been dead long enough; his burial is way past due.
Somehow, America has gone full circle. The ridiculous religion of worship of the rich has turned the U.S. into precisely what the American and French Revolution were meant to rid the world of; the mindlessness and corruption of an aristocratic system.
[Republicans’ Loss of Operational Control of the Oversight Committee](https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000019d-ad5c-de9d-a9fd-bfde0ff60000)
>In a development with little precedent in modern Congressional history, Oversight
Republicans have suspended the use of traditional committee hearings in favor of conducting
informal, off-the-record “roundtables.” This decision is a direct reaction to Oversight Democrats
successfully working with bipartisan majorities to force subpoenas advancing the Epstein
investigation. Since Representative Garcia became Ranking Member in July 2025, the
Committee has made seven successful subpoena motions, issuing 18 subpoenas—all with the
support of a bipartisan majority of the Committee.1 These motions and their resulting subpoenas
have been opposed by Republican leadership. Oversight Republicans are avoiding hearings to
block bipartisan subpoena motions they are losing. This shift doesn’t just affect Committee
procedure—it limits Congress’s ability to uncover the truth and hold powerful actors
accountable.
>I. BACKGROUND
>Unlike hearings, “roundtables” are informal sessions with no rules, no accountability, no
protections for the minority, and no opportunity to consider motions to issue subpoenas. They are
designed to look and feel like hearings, with Members seated at the Committee dais and
witnesses testifying as they would for a hearing, though without the requirement of testifying
under oath. By holding roundtables, Republicans are denying Members their basic rights as
lawmakers. Most importantly, they are blocking motions to secure documents, testimony, and
witnesses; even when those motions are supported by a bipartisan majority.2 These informal
events also deny Members of Congress the rights and protections of House rules, including
guarantees that their time to question witnesses will be respected, the protected right to invite
minority witnesses, or the protections provided by rules of decorum.3
>Roundtables mean no rules, no accountability, and no official record.
>By avoiding hearings, Republicans are avoiding the only forum where Democrats can
force votes, demand documents, and hold the majority accountable.
>The use of roundtables in place of hearings is not a regular practice in other committees.
The Ways & Means Committee has reported that Committee Republicans have begun holding
roundtables instead of hearings when Administration witnesses testify. However, other
committees have not experienced the large-scale replacement of official hearings with
roundtables at this time. While there are no House or Committee rules that require official
committee hearings to be held with a specific frequency, the use of roundtables by Chairman
Comer could create House-wide precedent that would fundamentally undermine the rights of all
Members. Chairman Comer’s refusal to convene official, full Committee and subcommittee
hearings is a dangerous and undemocratic ploy to block legitimate bipartisan oversight efforts.4
>II. OVERSIGHT REPUBLICANS’ TRANSITION AWAY FROM HEARINGS
>Running scared, Republicans are retreating from real hearings and hiding behind
roundtables to avoid votes they are losing.
>The transition away from formal hearings to roundtables has progressed over the span of
several months and initially began with the Committee’s subcommittees. So far, five
subcommittee roundtables have been held in 2026:
>>4/16/2026 Economic Growth, Energy Policy and Regulatory Affairs and Military and
Foreign Affairs Joint Roundtable, “Artificial Intelligence and American
Power: Leadership, Security, and Prosperity”
>>4/15/2026 Delivering on Government Efficiency Roundtable, “The IRS Under Audit:
A Review of Operations at the Nation’s Tax Collector”
>>3/26/2026 Health Care and Financial Services Roundtable, “Examining Mental
Health in the MAHA Age”
>>3/25/2026 Delivering on Government Efficiency RoundTable, “Doing More with
Less: Deleting Duplicative Programs”
>>1/22/2026 Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation
Roundtable, “Bipartisan Roundtable: Crimes Against Children in the
Digital Age”
>In addition, several subcommittees appear to have abandoned hearings altogether. The
Subcommittee on Military and Foreign Affairs has not held a hearing in nearly 10 months. The
Subcommittee on Federal Law Enforcement and the Subcommittee on DOGE have not held
hearings since September 2025.5 Only the Subcommittee on Government Operations—the
Committee’s most bipartisan subcommittee—seems to be continuing to hold traditional hearings.
>The full Committee has not held a hearing since March 4, 2026. The Oversight
Republicans’ refusal to hold official Committee hearings has escalated to the full committee
level as former Attorney General Pam Bondi has refused to comply with the committee’s
bipartisan subpoena for her testimony.
>Earlier this week, Chairman Comer noticed a “Full Committee Member Roundtable” for
April 21, 2026, as a method to avoid further action against Bondi or other motions. This is a
drastic breach in protocol, and research by Committee staff indicates that the Committee has
not held a public, full Committee roundtable in at least the last two Congresses.
>In this respect, the Republican transition from official hearings is directly attributable to
the use of subpoena motions offered by both Republican and Democratic Committee members,
which have been debated, voted on, and passed by bipartisan committee majorities. Republicans
have been explicit about this strategy. At a March 26, 2026, roundtable in the Health Care and
Financial Services Subcommittee, Republican Subcommittee Chair Glenn Grothman said:
>>Under normal circumstances when this Committee gets together we have a formal
hearing and you are all sworn in and there are rules like you can’t talk for more
than five minutes. It’s no secret why we are not doing a formal hearing today.
We’d like this hearing to be solely focused on the issue before you and there is
some concern that, both parties are guilty of this, that they make motions in
the middle of the hearing and try to bring up unrelated topics. And because I
am used to a normal hearing, I am not thrilled, I was initially not thrilled that we
are not doing a normal hearing.6
>In other words, Republicans are avoiding hearings because they don’t want Democrats to
force votes.
>Oversight requires transparency, rules, and accountability. Republicans are
abandoning all three. Instead of holding real hearings, they are choosing forums designed
to avoid scrutiny—because they are losing when the facts are on the table.
Hey MAGA, these are your beloved saviors — child raping and child rapist protecting pieces of shit. Congratulations for utterly destroying whatever was left of the United States.
The pedophiles are cornered and trying to escape.
why is James comer protecting child rapists
Comer means “to eat” in Spanish, and Comer can eat shit.
So he also raped kids? I didn’t suspect that until just now, but I have to assume he raped kids.
How is this sh-t even justified? The same way RFK justifies health cuts because the national debt is so large we have to cut spending somewhere? (Maybe not starting a useless war would help)
He won’t have this Job in January. That’s when the real fun begins
Yeah they’re doing sham hearings where witnesses don’t have to answer questions and don’t have to testify under oath.
Then they’ll just say “look I already answered all your questions at that hearing!” It’s a bold insidious way to dodge accountability.
It bears repeating that this is a case of child sex trafficking. This is the arena where they’ve decided to have this fight. It says everything you could ever want to know about who these people are.
What the fuck? How can they even do that? What’s even the point of a hearing if it’s not under oath??
Could any brilliant legal minds educate me on why any DOJ would not want a witness to be under oath?
Every time I think Comer can’t get any worse, he finds a way to outdo himself. The dumbest, most pathetic member of Congress, by far.
This will never go away people will never forget . we were promised answers and we demand accountability. Epstein Epstein Epstein just to keep it viral
So, Sen. Masse, you going to live up to your promise to start reciting names on the floor?
So when is Thomas Massie actually going to read the names of the people responsible of r*pe this women as he promised??? If Massie or Khana don’t fulfill their promise to read loudly the names of those involved, we will know it was a big lie from them too.
unspeakable cowardice, evil, and culpability.
Clever. So he’d be giving them the go-ahead to lie their asses off, like GOP always do.
James Comer is a pedophile.
This needs to be in every billboard in his district, state, and I’m the highest leading up to DC.
James Comer legacy will be as a Pedophile Protector. Got it. Hope his family enjoys that stain.
I never want to hear “both sides” again.
GOP has made a mess of everything and there is blood on their hands.
Democrats need to call these DEI hearings and not relent
Republicans will just do anything to protect their pedophile leaders, huh?
Why protect pedophiles if you are so holy and righteous?
How many years ago did the former Republican speaker of the house go to jail for the being a diddler ? Wasn’t that long.
Comer enables child rape. Wonder why he does that?
Guess what- all this horseshit will be reversed after the midterms. We are going to hold these people to account.
VOTE!
Comer would lie in the mud to keep Trump’s shoes clean.
Check his hard drive.
There is no legitimate, lawful, or moral reason for one half of the US government to be so frantically doing everything they can to end this investigation. How can *anybody* not see that?
Cause he is on the files too
The party of law and order its sentencing itself to midterm defeat. Everyone can see justice for me and non for thee. Stuck in a no win, investigate and powerful Republicans go down dont and they will anyway.
Ohh man that could back fire so badly for them. “Yeah I watched Donald Trump eat a baby he had just raped as Jim Jordan feverishly watched while cumming into a bible.”
Comer won’t let a war or a failing economy distract him from his most important mission, covering up the crimes and immorality of America’s elite.
So ignore the witness since they are just going to lie anyway and release all the names they can under the protection of the speech and debate clause. Consider it a book report on the unredacted files.
Republicans Enable and Protect Pedophiles.
https://goppredators.wordpress.com/2023/05/22/right-wing-sexual-predators-abusers-and-enablers/
25/1467 Names:
Donald Trump is accused of sexual assault by more than two dozen women. He is accused of raping a 13-year-old girl, talked about having sex with his daughter, bragged of walking in on underage girls at pageants, claimed he can grab women by the pussy. He was found liable of sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct_allegations
https://www.gzeromedia.com/in-60-seconds/world/trump-sexual-abuse-verdict-wont-hurt-him-with-gop
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/14/donald-trump-e-jean-carroll-lawsuit-nut-job
Judge Roy Moore is accused of sexual assault and dating underage children.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Moore_sexual_misconduct_allegation
Jim Jordan is in Republican House leadership though he is accused of ignoring sexual assault of more than a hundred young men while a coach, dismissing it as locker room talk. Students have said they told him and he is said to have called the parents of one complainant asking them to get their son to back off. https://www.vox.com/2018/7/6/17536388/jim-jordan-ohio-state-sexual-abuse-accuser
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/16/us/politics/jim-jordan-trump.html
Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert sexually abused his high school students. He is outside the statute of limitations but was convicted of paying off/bribing some of his victims
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/us/dennis-hastert-sentencing.html
Cobb County GOP Chairman Joseph Russell Dendy – child molesting – pleaded guilty, life sentence, parole possible in 30 years. He was 72.
https://www.ajc.com/news/crime–law/cobb-gop-chairman-dendy-indicted-molestation-charges/Ajxs2SiORqMCCdVZpGqj1M/
https://www.ajc.com/news/local-govt–politics/former-cobb-gop-leader-pleads-guilty-child-molestation-gets-life-sentence/JnEAITpb5Oy9iZ9RtsVvnI/
So-called “pro-life”/antigay activist Howard Scott Heldreth was convicted of raping a child.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230601212352/https://shadowproof.com/2008/07/27/nc-antigay-operation-save-america-totes-convicted-child-rapist-to-charlotte-pride/
GOP Ohio County Commissioner David Swartz convicted of raping two girls – released after only 5 years!!!! Back in prison after contacting one of his victims. http://lanternproject.org.uk/library/child-abuse-arrests-and-court-cases/child-abuse-arrests-trials-and-proceedings/ex-county-commissioner-admits-sexual-abuse-of-girl
Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl.
https://www.timesleader.com/archive/1063191/indecent-assault-case-judge-pleads-no-contest-mark-pazuhanich-says-he-didnt-want-his-daughter-to-have-to-testify-aboutfondling-incident
Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing Child Sexual Abuse Material on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/03/10/nation-in-brief/83fbbb01-c7fc-437a-81c4-2f686e3f1e58/
Republican Speaker of the House in PR Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison_Misla_Aldarondo
Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/nyregion/ex-mayor-convicted-in-sex-abuse-case.html
Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-apr-06-me-47737-story.html
Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with (RAPED) a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190728115136/https://www.thenation.com/article/was-strom-rapist/
Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female Juvenile.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2004/12/10/example-goes-from-good-to-bad/e73a7b08-5fb8-412a-ba7f-8fb473543e83/
Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/18/nyregion/embroiled-first-selectman-takes-leave.html
Republican Congressman Donald “Buz” Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.
https://www.npr.org/sections/politicaljunkie/2009/05/on_this_day_in_1989_buz_lukens.html
Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2003/04/24/gop-activist-admits-to-child-porn/5af2adf0-bec8-4a10-b061-014de679422a/
Republican of the Year Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.
https://www.pilotonline.com/news/crime/vp-nw-mark-grethen-lawrenceville-correctional-20210806-dmjuk7zwgnfxvigjnjmy3257vy-story.html
Republican state senator Ralph Shortey from Oklahoma admitted to being involved in sodomy with a 17 year old male prostitute and transporting child pornography.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/11/20/former-oklahoma-state-senator-admits-to-child-sex-trafficking-while-in-office/
Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.
https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2008/01/28/onetime-rising-gop-star-back-to-prison-for-sex-assaults/
GOP Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a page. To be fair, Dem Congressman was Gerry Studds was also caught for the same thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_congressional_page_sex_scandal
Republican Congressman Mark Foley abruptly resigned from Congress after “sexually explicit” emails surfaced showing him flirting with a 16-year old boy.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/29/AR2006092901574.html
Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to raping his stepdaughter repeatedly after she was 15. Headline here is gross. Rape/not affair.
https://greensboro.com/smith-stepfather-had-affair-that-began-when-she-was-15/article_549fa43d-e631-599b-8cad-177a71ad709e.html
Republican congressman and anti-gay activist *Robert Bauman** was charged with having sex (raping) with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bauman
Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped and notice, they agreed his record could be expunged in THREE YEARS! https://www.nj.com/ledgerarchives/2005/01/cops_say_jersey_suspects_sough.html
https://archive.is/7agH6
James Comer protects rich guys who raped, tortured, killed, and ate kids.
That’s is who James Comer is.
Life in prison is what he deserves.
Either way trump still fucked kids
Who do you turn to when the people you would turn to are the problem