House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R‑Ky.) publicly stated he would “take [President Donald Trump] at his word” regarding the authenticity of a lewd letter Trump allegedly sent to convicted child predator Jeffrey Epstein which bore the president’s name and signature — and that his committee sees no need to investigate it further. Trump denied that the signature on the card was his.
Speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Comer said the issue “was 22 years ago,” adding, “I don’t think the Oversight Committee is going to invest in looking up something that was 22 years ago.”
Comer's remarks generated backlash on social media.
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Jacob Shamsian, a legal correspondent for Business Insider, wrote on the social platform X: "What does that mean? That the Epstein estate they subpoenaed supplied them with a fake document?"
Gregg Nunziata, Executive Director at the Society of Rule of Law, wrote: "The very suggestion that the 'Oversight Committee' would 'take the president at his word' is preposterously disqualifying."
Writer Damin Toell wrote: "'I don't think the Oversight Committee is going to invest in looking up something that was 22 years ago' but it was the Oversight Committee that issued a subpoena to the Epstein estate for the birthday book from 22 years ago."
Former Florida State Sen. Paula Dockery wrote: "So Trump, a known liar, should be taken at his word, along with Trump supporters but everyone else should be heavily scrutinized even if there is no evidence?"
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Jesse Lee, a former Biden staffer, said: "Trump’s culture of corruption has swallowed them all whole, and they didn’t even put up a fight. Pigs in slop. Just complete betrayal of Epstein’s victims that they used as campaign props for conspiracy theory attacks on Dems year after year."
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