CNN Host Fact-Checks Jasmine Crockett In Real-Time About Trump-Epstein Claim

CNN host Pamela Brown fact-checked Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett on Wednesday as she suggested that Republicans redacted the name of Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre.

House Democrats released a batch of emails from Epstein in which he suggested that Trump knew about his conduct and spent time at his home surrounded by his victims. While Crockett suggested on CNN’s ‘The Situation Room” that Republicans are hiding Giuffre’s name to protect President Donald Trump, Brown reminded her that Giuffre said that Trump committed no wrongdoing.

“Here’s the email right here on your screen.She wrote a book, as you know, and she did not accuse him of any wrongdoing. What do you make of that? And can you confirm that?” Brown asked. 

“Yeah, I don’t know. Obviously, it’s redacted who the victim is, so I won’t necessarilytake the Republicans word on who it is that’s redacted.And I don’t know why they would necessarily redact someone’s namewho is deceased at this point,” Crockett said. 

“But the Democrats did that,” Brown clarified. 

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Crockett continued to suggest that the Republicans are protecting Trump by not releasing the files.

“So I think that that’s actually one of the things that we should talk aboutis that the president has tried to call this all a hoax. I don’t think you have this many people dying around a hoax,” Crockett said. “I don’t think you have somebody trying to hide files around a hoax.