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BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court has officially ruled against absolute immunity for Donald Trump in the Epstein case. This historic 2026 decision means the President can now be legally subpoenaed. Raise your hand if you stand with the Supreme Court! 🖐️
BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court has officially ruled against absolute immunity for Donald Trump in the Epstein case. This historic 2026 decision means the President can now be legally subpoenaed. Raise your hand if you stand with the Supreme Court! 🖐️
In a stunning political reversal, House Democrats have successfully secured enough votes to compel President Donald Trump to testify under oath before the House Oversight Committee regarding his relationship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The move comes just days after former President Bill Clinton concluded his own historic, closed-door deposition, a decision Republicans may now regret as the political precedent they set is turned against them .
The dramatic escalation was confirmed late Friday by multiple sources familiar with the committee’s whip count. By leveraging a strategy first employed by Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) to subpoena Bill Clinton, Democrats—led by Ranking Member Robert Garcia (D-Calif.)—have cobbled together a bipartisan coalition to issue a subpoena for the sitting president.
“The person who appears more times in the files than any other political figure is President Trump,” Garcia told reporters following a tense closed-door meeting. “The Republicans created a new precedent when they forced President Clinton to testify. You cannot have one rule for the Clintons and another rule for Donald Trump. The ‘Clinton Rule’ is now the law of this committee, and it applies to everyone”
. The Vote and the Republican Divide
According to aides familiar with the proceedings, at least three Republican members have signaled they will vote with the unified Democratic caucus to issue the subpoena. This mirrors the dynamic seen earlier this year when a House subcommittee voted to subpoena the Justice Department for Epstein files, with GOP members breaking ranks .
The decision throws the committee—and the House Republican leadership—into chaos. Chairman Comer has spent the week touting that Bill Clinton’s testimony “exonerated” Trump, claiming the former Democrat told the committee he had “no liability” regarding Epstein . However, Democrats have fiercely disputed Comer’s characterization of that testimony.
Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) took to social media to “clarify” Clinton’s remarks, noting that the former president confirmed Trump and Epstein had a “close relationship” that only ended due to a “land dispute”—directly contradicting Trump’s own claims about why he cut ties .
“The Chairman’s summary was not a complete, accurate description,” Garcia said. “President Clinton brought up information that raises new, important questions. That is precisely why we need to hear directly from President Trump and why we need the full transcript released”