Monday on CNN’s “The Situation Room,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) dismissed Delegate Stacey Plaskett’s (D-VI) textual content message change with Jeffrey Epstein throughout a House listening to as a result of he stated Republican lawmakers textual content with President Donald Trump.
Co-host Pamela Brown stated, “I wish to ask you about Democratic Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett final week, as , there was a failed censure effort over her texts with Epstein throughout an oversight listening to in 2019. He was a identified intercourse offender. She acknowledged Epstein’s affect in her line of questioning throughout that listening to on this present once we had her on, however wouldn’t say it was an error in judgment. Here’s the way you defended her on the House flooring final week. So our viewers can pay attention.”
Last Tuesday on the House flooring, Raskin stated, “However sick suggested it could have been she took a telephone name from certainly one of her constituents. They’ve organized a Democratic member for taking a telephone name from her constituent Jeffrey Epstein, in the midst of a listening to. And in fact, I don’t assume there’s any rule right here in opposition to taking telephone calls in a listening to.”
Brown stated, “And to be clear, she initiated the textual content chain on that day however are Democrats shedding the ethical excessive floor on the Epstein problem by defending her, as you’ve gotten?”
Raskin stated, “Well, look, we’ve been demanding an entire launch of the file and now they wished to self-discipline her, censure her as a result of she did have interaction in that textual content change with a convicted felony. Of course, our Republican colleagues have interaction in textual content exchanges on a regular basis with Donald Trump, who has 34 felony felony offenses to his title. So I don’t know precisely what she’s being charged with there. My level was merely, she had not violated the Constitution, she had not violated federal legislation, and he or she not violated, to my data, any rule of the House of Representatives.”
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