Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., is under fire for defending Stacey Plaskett, who texted Jeffrey Epstein during a 2019 congressional hearing, claiming he was just her “constituent.»
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., was ridiculed as «dishonest» and «sick» after arguing from the House floor that his former law school student, U.S. Virgin Islands Congressional Delegate Stacey Plaskett, was only «taking a phone call from her constituent» when she was texting disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein during a 2019 congressional hearing.
Republicans on Tuesday, led by Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., introduced a resolution to censure Plaskett for «inappropriate coordination with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein», which it says «reflects discreditably on the House of Representatives.»
Plaskett was caught texting Epstein, whose primary residence was in the U.S. Virgin Islands, during a 2019 hearing when former Trump attorney Michael Cohen was testifying about his work with the former president amid an ongoing probe into Trump’s business dealings and matters tied to the 2016 election.
«They want to give them another headline! Which is, that they’ve arraigned a Democratic member for taking a phone call from her constituent, Jeffrey Epstein, in the middle of a hearing. And, of course, I don’t think there are any rules here against taking phone calls in a hearing», Raskin exclaimed on the House floor Tuesday afternoon amid Congress’s efforts to pass a bill aimed at censuring Plaskett.
«Are we saying just because they were on a phone call, they’re guilty of something? We should strip them of their committee assignments. We should censure them. Have we gotten to that point? I mean, come on», he continued. «Look, this is the House of Representatives. The United States of America. Let’s stick by the Constitution. Let’s stick by due process.»
The White House’s Rapid Response team quickly shot back at Raskin on social media, posting a clip of his remarks that they described as «sick.
