Monday on CNN’s “The Scenario Room,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) dismissed Delegate Stacey Plaskett’s (D-VI) textual content message alternate with Jeffrey Epstein throughout a Home listening to as a result of he stated Republican lawmakers textual content with President Donald Trump.
Co-host Pamela Brown stated, “I need to ask you about Democratic Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett final week, as you already know, 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. Right here’s the way you defended her on the Home flooring final week. So our viewers can hear.”
Final Tuesday on the Home flooring, Raskin stated, “Nonetheless ailing suggested it could have been she took a cellphone name from one in every of her constituents. They’ve organized a Democratic member for taking a cellphone name from her constituent Jeffrey Epstein, in the midst of a listening to. And naturally, I don’t suppose there’s any rule right here towards taking cellphone calls in a listening to.”
Brown stated, “And to be clear, she initiated the textual content chain on that day however are Democrats dropping the ethical excessive floor on the Epstein situation by defending her, as you may have?”
Raskin stated, “Effectively, look, we’ve been demanding a whole launch of the file and now they needed to self-discipline her, censure her as a result of she did interact in that textual content alternate with a convicted felony. After all, our Republican colleagues interact 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 Structure, she had not violated federal regulation, and he or she not violated, to my information, any rule of the Home of Representatives.”
Observe Pam Key on X @pamkeyNEN
