You have to admire the audacity. You really do.
For six months, Bill and Hillary Clinton treated congressional subpoenas like spam emails — ignored, deleted, forgotten. They skipped depositions. They demanded special treatment. They had their lawyers argue that a former president shouldn’t have to sit for questions like some common citizen. They offered written statements instead of testimony, sworn declarations instead of cross-examination, anything and everything except actually showing up and answering questions under oath.
And now? Now Hillary Clinton is on X, fists raised, demanding a public hearing. Cameras on. Fight me, Comer.
“If you want this fight,” she posted, “let’s have it — in public.”
That’s not bravery. That’s a cornered animal realizing the cage door is closing and trying to convince everyone she walked in voluntarily.
The Six-Month Stall
Let’s rewind the tape, because the Clinton PR machine is counting on you having a short memory.
August 2025: The House Oversight Committee issues subpoenas to both Clintons as part of the Epstein investigation. These aren’t surprise attacks. These aren’t partisan ambushes. This is Congress doing its constitutional job — investigating how the most connected sex trafficker in American history operated with impunity for decades.
The Clintons’ response? “No thanks.”
They didn’t show up. Bill Clinton became the subject of contempt proceedings after he simply didn’t appear for his scheduled deposition. Hillary followed suit, skipping hers. Their lawyers sent letters calling the subpoenas “inappropriate” and arguing that a former president deserves different treatment.
Different treatment. For an investigation into their relationship with a dead pedophile.
The “Good Faith” Lie
In her X post, Hillary claimed they “engaged Republicans on the Oversight Committee in good faith” for six months. Good faith. Let that marinate.
Good faith doesn’t mean skipping depositions. Good faith doesn’t mean demanding written statements instead of live testimony. Good faith doesn’t mean having your lawyers negotiate for a four-hour time limit so your husband can filibuster his way to freedom.
Good faith means showing up when Congress tells you to show up. The Clintons didn’t do that. Not once. Not until Comer made it clear that contempt charges weren’t a negotiating tactic — they were a promise.
Suddenly, “good faith” appeared. Funny how that works.
The Goalpost Gambit
Hillary’s main complaint? She says Comer “moved the goalposts” by requiring video-recorded depositions. The nerve! The audacity! They agreed to testify, and now you want it on camera?
Except here’s the thing. The House Oversight Committee posted the receipts. Literally. Screenshots of the email correspondence between the committee and the Clintons’ lawyers.
The terms were laid out from the beginning. Transcribed depositions. Video recording. Standard procedure — the same terms applied to Republicans like former Attorney General Bill Barr and former Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, both of whom testified in this same investigation.
The Clintons’ lawyers agreed to these terms. Then, at the last minute, tried to claim the video recording was a surprise. A goalpost move. A gotcha.
It wasn’t. The committee showed the emails. The terms were explicit. The Clintons accepted them.
This isn’t goalpost moving. This is buyer’s remorse dressed up as righteous indignation.
The “Meaning of Is” Callback
The Oversight Committee’s response included a line so perfectly aimed it deserves its own paragraph: “We are not going to debate the meaning of the word ‘is.'”
If you’re under forty, you might not remember. Back in 1998, during the Monica Lewinsky investigation, Bill Clinton — under oath, in a deposition — famously said, “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.”
That moment became shorthand for everything people hate about the Clintons. The slipperiness. The lawyerly evasion. The belief that words don’t mean what they mean when a Clinton is using them.
The committee just threw that back in their faces. And they deserved it.
Why Hillary Wants Cameras Now
Here’s what’s actually happening. Hillary Clinton is losing control of the narrative. The private deposition format — transcribed, video-recorded, but not broadcast live — means she can’t perform for an audience. She can’t grandstand. She can’t turn questions into speeches and answers into campaign ads.
In a closed deposition, the questioners control the pace. They can follow up. They can pin you down. They can ask the same question six different ways until you either answer it or plead the Fifth.
In a public hearing? It’s theater. And the Clintons have been doing political theater longer than most committee members have been alive.
Hillary wants cameras because cameras give her an audience. An audience gives her sympathy. Sympathy gives her spin. And spin is the only currency the Clintons have left.
The Real Stakes
Let’s not forget what this investigation is actually about.
Jeffrey Epstein ran a sex trafficking operation for decades. He had connections to some of the most powerful people on the planet. He kept detailed records. He allegedly used blackmail to maintain influence. He died under circumstances that roughly zero Americans believe were coincidental.
Bill Clinton flew on Epstein’s private jet multiple times. He maintained a relationship with Epstein for years. His name appears in documents, on flight logs, in the orbit of a predator who abused countless young women.
Hillary Clinton was married to him the entire time.
The American people deserve to know what the Clintons knew, when they knew it, and what — if anything — they did about it. That’s not a partisan question. That’s a basic accountability question. And for six months, the Clintons answered it with silence, lawyers, and demands for special treatment.
The Schedule
Hillary Clinton is set to testify February 26. Bill Clinton the following day, February 27.
Mark your calendars. Because whatever happens in that room — cameras or no cameras, public or private — will be the first time in six months that a Clinton has been forced to answer questions instead of dodge them.
And if Hillary wants to fight in public? Fine. Let’s have it. But she doesn’t get to spend six months hiding and then pretend she was the one demanding transparency all along.
The receipts are public. The emails are posted. The timeline is clear.
The only question left is whether the Clintons will finally tell the truth — or whether they’ll try to debate the meaning of “is” one more time.