In Forcing the Clintons to Testify on Epstein, Comer Sets a New Precedent

The Republican chairman’s successful targeting of a former president who faces no charge of wrongdoing was the sort of tactic typical in an autocracy where leaders fear being jailed when they are out of power.Representative James R. Comer of Kentucky, at the Capitol on Tuesday, had been trying for months to get Bill and Hillary Clinton to testify in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.