Virgin Islands Non-Voting Representative Stacey Plaskett was called out for taking money from Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced sex trafficker who may or may not have killed himself.
Republican Rep. Kat Cammack pointed out the hypocrisy of Plaskett, who had previously tried to shame Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with guilt by association. “I believe, the ranking member [Plaskett] said she was deeply concerned about the affiliation and we seem to have a guilty by-association thing going on here and so, I just have to state for the record that I myself am deeply concerned about the affiliation of the convicted sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein, of which the ranking member took campaign donation money from so I think that’s the beauty of the First Amendment is that we have a right to say what we want to say, but we also have the right to be offended, so I just wanted to point that out, glass houses and all,” she said.
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Last month, reporting from the Washington Free Beacon’s Chuck Ross revealed that Plaskett took money from Epstein even after he was a convicted sex offender, and met with him personally. As Ross reported:
Plaskett met Epstein numerous times after her entry into politics in 2014, visiting Epstein's office in the Virgin Islands and his New York City townhouse, she said in a deposition last month [May 2023]. The meetings occurred years after Epstein's conviction on child sex crimes was publicly known, but Plaskett nonetheless met the registered sex offender to solicit campaign donations for herself and Democratic committees. Though she has denied knowing Epstein contributed to her campaign, emails revealed in court documents show her directing a fundraising consultant to ensure Epstein is invited to her fundraiser. "I would be grateful for his support," Plaskett wrote in the July 2018 email.
Details of the relationship are revealed in court documents released as part of a lawsuit the government of the Virgin Islands filed against JPMorgan, where Epstein banked for years. Emails released in the case show that Epstein jumped at a request in 2014 to help Plaskett in her underdog campaign.
When it was initially reported that Plaskett took money from Epstein, she lied and denied having any knowledge of the donation whatsoever, claiming to have only then just learned about it in the media.Matt Palumbo is the author of Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers: How the Left Hijacked and Weaponized the Fact-Checking Industry and The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros
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