Every single one of the 25 GOP members of the US House Oversight Committee, including John McGuire (R-VA), boycotted yesterday's deposition of Les Wexner, the patron and financier of Jeffrey Epstein.

At his mansion yesterday Feb 18 in New Albany, Ohio, Democrats on the US House Committee on Oversight interrogated billionaire Leslie Wexner. The deposition was part of the committee’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. In an extraordinary move, the lawmakers traveled to Wexner's Ohio home to question him.

However, no Republican members of the Committee questioned Mr Wexner -- because not a single GOP member showed up.

“[Wexner] is someone who has been named by survivors, someone who is in the files more than most people, someone who is clearly the financial benefactor to Jeffrey Epstein,” Mr. Garcia said. “What the hell is going on?” ...

Representative David Min, Democrat of California, summed up Mr. Wexner’s testimony by saying that “[Wexner] has basically alleged that he saw no evil, heard no evil — despite being in the room with Jeffrey Epstein over and over.”

[Min] added: “It’s really just not credible. To give that much trust to Jeffrey Epstein and then to say, ‘I don’t remember seeing any young girls, I didn’t hear anything about Jeffrey Epstein,’ it really is just not plausible.”

The committee's Democrats excoriated their Republican colleagues on Oversight for boycotting Wexner's depo, saying: "follow the money."

We know of of approximately over a billion dollars. It looks like it's about a billion dollars that was either transferred, provided in stocks, or given directly to Mr. Epstein by Wexner. Now, it's important to note that Mr. Wexner appears to be unaware of much of the money as he claims that was given over to Mr. Epstein. It is almost inconceivable to be missing the amounts of money that are missing and somehow, Mr. Wexner "has no idea."

Attending Oversight members said the Republican members' complete boycott of the Wexner deposition was extraordinary:

It is very frustrating, the fact that there are no Republicans here today. I wish there were Republicans because sex trafficking should not be a D versus R issue, it should be a bipartisan issue. Everybody should be invested in finding the truth right now. And the fact that we've had so little cooperation from the Republicans on the House Oversight Committee that the DOJ has actively tried to obstruct this investigation, that is shameful and it will go down as a permanent mark on the records of people like Pam Bondi and Donald Trump.

The Republican members of the House Oversight Committee are

• James Comer (Kentucky, 1st District) — Chairman

• Jim Jordan (Ohio, 4th District)

• Mike Turner (Ohio, 10th District)

• Paul Gosar (Arizona, 9th District)

• Virginia Foxx (North Carolina, 5th District)

• Glenn Grothman (Wisconsin, 6th District)

• Michael Cloud (Texas, 27th District)

• Gary Palmer (Alabama, 6th District)

• Clay Higgins (Louisiana, 3rd District)

• Pete Sessions (Texas, 17th District)

• Andy Biggs (Arizona, 5th District)

• Nancy Mace (South Carolina, 1st District)

• Pat Fallon (Texas, 4th District)

• Byron Donalds (Florida, 19th District)

• Scott Perry (Pennsylvania, 10th District)

• William Timmons (South Carolina, 4th District)

• Tim Burchett (Tennessee, 2nd District)

• Lauren Boebert (Colorado, 4th District)

• Anna Paulina Luna (Florida, 13th District)

• Nick Langworthy (New York, 23rd District)

• Eric Burlison (Missouri, 7th District)

• Eli Crane (Arizona, 2nd District)

• Brian Jack (Georgia, 3rd District)

• John McGuire (Virginia, 5th District)

• Brandon Gill (Texas, 26th District)