US Congress will subpoena Ghislaine Maxwell to testify on the Jeffrey Epstein case. Republican Tim Burchett moved to force Maxwell to testify before the House Oversight Committee, The Guardian reported.
Burchett Pushes for Testimony, Seeks Accountability
“We’ve just got to get to the bottom of this thing, folks,” Burchett said in a statement posted on X. “It’s four years and we don’t need to tolerate this stuff any more.”
Burchett said he had made the motion instructing committee chairman James Comer to sign and issue a subpoena for Maxwell. Comer was “down with it,” Burchett stated, going on to say, “I think he’s going to issue the subpoena. He’s a stand-up guy.”
Burchett Faces Backlash but Remains Resolute
Burchett said he knows he would receive “blow back, and folks up here are going to be mad at me, but ultimately and with all sincerity, I’m gonna answer my creator on this issue.”
Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence at present.
No Consultation with Trump, But Past Efforts Confirmed
Burchett confirmed to Axios that he did not consult President Donald Trump before calling on the committee to subpoena Maxwell. However, he had written to Comer in the past, urging him to make Maxwell testify.
“She’s the last one standing,” Burchett said of Maxwell. “There’s nobody else alive that can tell us anything.”
Burchett added that he believes Maxwell could “tell us the operation, how it went down, who were the supporters of it … ultimately I’d like to see justice.”
House Committee Plans to Coordinate with DOJ and Prisons
Meanwhile, a spokesperson also confirmed to the New York Post that the GOP-led House Oversight Committee will “seek to subpoena” Maxwell for testimony “as expeditiously as possible. “Since Ms. Maxwell is in federal prison, the Committee will work with the Department of Justice and Bureau of Prisons to identify a date when Committee can depose her,” a committee rep said.
The news comes just hours after the justice department announced it would send US deputy attorney general Todd Blanche to Florida to interview Maxwell. Trump had also requested last week that attorney general Pam Bondi request a court release all the grand jury evidence in the case of Epstein. Maxwell attorney David Oscar Markus afterwards clarified on social media that “we are in discussions with the government and that Ghislaine will always testify truthfully.”
