James Comer's Epstein Investigation Isn't About Epstein

A former secretary of state was deposed under subpoena while the billionaire who bankrolled the world's most famous pedophile testified before a roomful of absent Republicans.

WASHINGTON — They drove the subpoenas all the way up to Chappaqua, New York, an actual convoy of congressional purpose, to sit across a table from Hillary Rodham Clinton and ask her what she knew about Jeffrey Epstein. She didn’t know anything. She said so. Repeatedly. This is what passes for justice in the United States Congress in February of 2026.

James Comer, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, a man who has never met a Clinton-adjacent headline he didn’t want to sleep with, told reporters with a straight face that no one is accusing the Clintons of anything. He just needed them there. For clarification. For the record. For whatever you call it when you haul a former secretary of state and a former president out of retirement to answer questions about a dead pedophile whose name doesn’t appear anywhere near theirs in the actual Epstein files the Justice Department released.

Hillary sat for hours. She said she didn’t recall meeting Epstein. She said she had no information. She called the whole thing political theater, which was generous. Theater implies someone wrote a script. This was more like improv — expensive, subpoena-backed improv — performed for an audience of cable news producers and fundraising email lists.

But here’s the part nobody’s talking about enough.

Last week, the same House Oversight Committee — Comer’s committee, the one so consumed with exposing Jeffrey Epstein’s network of powerful men — had a deposition scheduled with Leslie Wexner. You may know him as the billionaire founder of Victoria’s Secret. You definitely should know him as the man who gave Jeffrey Epstein his entire fortune, his Manhattan mansion, and arguably his career as a procurer of underage girls. Wexner is not a peripheral figure in this story. Wexner is the story.

Not a single Republican on the committee showed up.

Not one.

They couldn’t make it. Had other things. The men who moved heaven and earth to drag Hillary Clinton up to Westchester County — who voted on a bipartisan basis to hold her in contempt when she hesitated — couldn’t find time in their schedules to question the man who arguably made Jeffrey Epstein possible.

This is the tell. This is the whole column, right here.

You want to know what this investigation is about? It’s not about Epstein. It’s not about the network. It’s not about the girls — those girls who were real, and whose suffering was real, and who deserve a Congress that treats their abuse as something more than a vehicle for opposition research.

It’s about Her. It’s always been about Her. It will be about Her long after everyone involved has forgotten what they were originally pretending to care about.

Bill Clinton’s deposition is tomorrow. He’ll say what she said. He’ll say he didn’t know. He’ll say he has no information. And the Republicans will nod gravely and release the transcript and someone at Fox News will spend forty-five minutes on a chyron that says CLINTON EPSTEIN CONNECTION and America will have learned precisely nothing new about who actually enabled Jeffrey Epstein to do what he did for as long as he did it.

Meanwhile Les Wexner sat in a room with no Republicans across from him and presumably went home in time for dinner.