Jasmine Crockett Wants You To Believe Her Epstein-Zeldin Comments Were An Honest Mistake

Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett claimed Wednesday that she wasn’t trying to “mislead people” when she falsely claimed that Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin received political donations from registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Crockett made the false allegation during the debate on the floor of the House of Representatives on legislation to force the Trump administration to release files about Epstein. Crockett told “The Source” host Kaitlan Collins she had “maybe 20 minutes” before the debate took place.

“I never said that it was that Jeffrey Epstein,” Crockett claimed. “Just so that people understand, when you make a donation, your picture is not there. And because they decided to spring this on us in real time, I wanted the Republicans to think about what could potentially happen, because I knew that they didn’t even try to go through the FEC. So my team, what they did is they Googled, and that is specifically why I said ‘a Jeffrey Epstein.’ Unlike Republicans, I at least don’t go out and just tell lies.”

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“Because it was not the same one, that’s fine, but when Lee Zeldin has something to say, all he had to say was, ‘It was a different Jeffrey Epstein,’” Crockett continued. “He admitted that he did receive donations from a Jeffrey Epstein, so at least I wasn’t trying to mislead people. Now, have I dug in to find out who this doctor is? I have not. So I will trust and take what he says, is that it wasn’t that Jeffrey Epstein, but I was not attempting to mislead anybody. I literally had maybe 20 minutes before I had to do that debate.”

Zeldin pushed back against Crockett’s claims in a sharply-worded