Democrat Admits Epstein Was Pulling Her Strings

Democratic Del. Stacey Plaskett of the Virgin Islands admitted Wednesday that she would not have asked President Donald Trump’s former fixer, Michael Cohen, certain questions without texts from registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Plaskett narrowly escaped censure by the House of Representatives over unearthed text messages between her and Epstein, with the resolution failing by a 214-209 vote due to reported defections to protect Republican Rep. Cory Mills of Florida from also being censured. “Situation Room” co-host Pamela Brown questioned Plaskett about initiating the exchange of messages.

“Why were you even texting with Epstein at the time? He was a known sex offender then,” Brown asked Plaskett, who replied, “Sure. You know, I explain to people, I’ve been a prosecutor for many years. And there are a lot of people who have information that are not your friends, that you use to get information for to get at the truth. This was seven years ago and people need to understand, this was a huge hearing that was taking place with Michael Cohen, finally coming forward to talk about monies that he had with the hush money, potential hush money that had been paid to Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet about the allegations against Trump.”

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“We were entering a hearing, lots of people were texting me, lots of people were giving me information. And I find it really interesting and almost rich that The Washington Post took 30 seconds, one set of question line that I did, and say that Epstein was directing me as to what to question Michael Cohen. I have five minutes of questioning,” Plaskett continued. “I had a lot of questions, 20 years of experience that I had at the time, along with other information I was getting from many sources about issues that should have been raised. And I also want to say that the issues that I raised in that hearing related to individuals who were closest to the president and who could know about money has never been looked into.”