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Yesterday, the House Oversight Committee voted to subpoena Pam Bondi to come answer some questions about Jeffrey Epstein. The vote was 24-19, with five Republicans voting with the Democrats. Two of the Republicans were Reps. Nancy Mace (R-SC) and Lauren Boebert (R-CO). Mace has said she was once raped and Boebert was involved in altercations with her ex where police were called. They see sexual assault as a man-woman issue, not a Democrat-Republican issue. The others may be holding a finger to the wind and are getting a sense of where their voters are.
Mace is very serious about this. It isn't political with her. She was deeply wounded by being raped. Politico has an in-depth interview about her life. She comes off as hurt, not crazy. Her is her tweet after the vote:
Besides the tweet, Mace told reporters: "I have a lot more questions, and I don't expect to be talking about the stock market, so she better not bring those notes when she comes to the Oversight Committee." We don't have Mace's list of questions but we imagine one will be: "In February, you said you had Epstein's client list on your desk. Later you said there is no client list. Were you lying the first time or the second time?"
Thomas Massie is not on the Oversight Committee, but Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) is. Mace, Boebert, Khanna,and a few others are not going to take answers about the stock market well. Bondi is experienced at deflecting, but some of the members are not going to like it. There are sure to be fireworks. (V)