{"id":283125,"date":"2025-07-22T17:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T17:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/283125\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T17:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T17:58:09","slug":"us-congress-will-subpoena-ghislaine-maxwell-to-testify-about-jeffrey-epstein-amid-political-firestorm-jeffrey-epstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/283125\/","title":{"rendered":"US Congress will subpoena Ghislaine Maxwell to testify about Jeffrey Epstein amid political firestorm | Jeffrey Epstein"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congress will subpoena Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a>, the imprisoned sex trafficker who was a close associate of the notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>, to testify amid a political firestorm over the Trump administration<\/a>\u2019s decision not to release its remaining Epstein files.<\/p>\n

The Tennessee Republican Tim Burchett introduced a motion to compel Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year-sentence<\/a> in a Florida prison for crimes related to the Epstein case, to testify before the House oversight committee.<\/p>\n

The move appears to skirt an announcement early on Tuesday that officials from the Department of Justice are also planning to meet with Maxwell.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got to send a message to these dirt bags,\u201d Burchett said in a statement posted on X<\/a>, referring to the list of clients and other Epstein enablers that are assumed to be included in the remaining Epstein files, the details of which are not publicly known.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve just got to get to the bottom of this thing, folks. It\u2019s four years and we don\u2019t need to tolerate this stuff any more.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Epstein issue has plagued the Trump administration as the president\u2019s own supporters buck him<\/a> and clamor for more information, and as details continue to emerge about Trump\u2019s personal connections with Epstein, who was a friend of his<\/a> for many years until they fell out.<\/p>\n

The issue has also riven Capitol Hill, with not just many Democrats but also Republicans calling for the release of all files. On Tuesday the Republican-led House of Representatives, led by Trump ally Mike Johnson \u2013 who recently undermined the president by calling for the release of all files, only to back down several days later \u2013 voted to start its summer holiday early in order to avoid Epstein-related votes planned for Thursday.<\/p>\n

Burchett said he\u2019d introduced the motion directing James Comer, chairman of the committee, to authorize and issue a subpoena for Maxwell. Comer was \u201cdown with it\u201d, Burchett said. \u201cI believe he\u2019s going to issue the subpoena. He\u2019s a stand-up guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also acknowledged that he would receive \u201cblowback, and folks up here are going to be mad at me, but ultimately and with all sincerity, I\u2019m gonna answer my creator on this issue\u201d.<\/p>\n

Burchett told Axios<\/a> that he did not consult Trump before calling on the committee to subpoena Maxwell. He has previously written to Comer urging him to bring Maxwell in to testify.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s the last one standing,\u201d he told Axios. \u201cThere\u2019s nobody else alive that can tell us anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He also said he he believes Maxwell could \u201ctell us the operation, how it went down, who were the supporters of it \u2026 Ultimately I\u2019d like to see justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

The announcement came hours after the justice department said it is planning to send Todd Blanche, the US deputy attorney general, to Florida to meet with Maxwell.<\/p>\n

Last week, Trump directed the attorney general, Pam Bondi, to ask a court to release all relevant grand jury testimony in Epstein\u2019s case.<\/p>\n

Maxwell attorney David Oscar Markus confirmed on X<\/a> \u201cthat we are in discussions with the government and that Ghislaine will always testify truthfully\u201d.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday morning, Blanche also released a statement, posted by Bondi<\/a>, saying that he plans to meet with Maxwell \u201cin the coming days\u201d. Blanche\u2019s statement also defended the department\u2019s early July release, saying it was \u201cas accurate today as it was when it was written\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Congress will subpoena Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned sex trafficker who was a close associate of the notorious pedophile…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-283125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114898187264986879","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}