Rep. Stacey Plaskett, D-V.I., defended her 2019 text messages with Jeffrey Epstein after a GOP-led censure effort failed, saying she sought information as a prosecutor.
Del. Stacey Plaskett, D-V.I., defended her text messages with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a CNN interview Wednesday.
In response to backlash and a Republican-led censure effort over the 2019 texts, the Virgin Islands’ nonvoting delegate in Congress said she was seeking information from Epstein, not forming a friendship.
«And as a prosecutor, you get information from people where you can», Plaskett told CNN’s «The Situation Room.»
The House Freedom Caucus led a bid Tuesday night to censure Plaskett after text messages between her and Epstein, exchanged during the February 2019 congressional testimony of former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, surfaced online.
The texts, exchanged during Cohen’s 2019 hearing — where he accused President Donald Trump of arranging payments to hide alleged extramarital affairs during his 2016 campaign — show Epstein taking a strong interest in Plaskett’s questioning.
