{"id":2512253,"date":"2025-11-19T09:44:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T14:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anna-paulina-luna-says-swamp-protects-itself-in-criticism-of-failure-to-censure-stacey-plaskett\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T09:47:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T14:47:00","slug":"anna-paulina-luna-says-swamp-protects-itself-in-criticism-of-failure-to-censure-stacey-plaskett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anna-paulina-luna-says-swamp-protects-itself-in-criticism-of-failure-to-censure-stacey-plaskett\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Paulina Luna says \u2018swamp protects itself\u2019 in criticism of failure to censure Stacey Plaskett\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fanna-paulina-luna-says-swamp-protects-itself-in-criticism-of-failure-to-censure-stacey-plaskett%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2512253&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Representative Anna Paulina Luna criticized Congress for failing too censure Delegate Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands), who was accused of being coached by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein via text messages to question former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen during a 2019 House Oversight Committee hearing. Luna claimed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schiff-faces-ethics-complaint-over-2016-russia-collusion-claims-after-censure-vote-fails\/\" title=\"Schiff faces ethics complaint for Russia collusion claims after failed ....\">failed censure vote<\/a> resulted from a backroom deal protecting Representative Cory Mills (R-FL) from a similar censure and ethics investigation. Luna and other GOP members, including Representatives Lauren Boebert and Kat Cammack, condemned the perceived political deal-making, accusing both parties of protecting their own and shielding public corruption. Luna attempted to raise a parliamentary inquiry to question House leadership&#8217;s actions but was denied. The incident has <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >highlighted ongoing tensions<\/a> and accusations of corruption and cover-ups within Congress.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Anna Paulina Luna says &lsquo;swamp protects itself&rsquo; in criticism of failure to censure Stacey Plaskett&nbsp;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2405964\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Rep. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/anna-paulina-luna\/\">Anna Paulina Luna<\/a> (R-FL) blasted members of Congress on Tuesday night for failing to censure Democratic Virgin Islands Del. Stacey Plaskett.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Plaskett was <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3891123\/ralph-norman-house-censure-resolution-virgin-islands-stacey-plaskett-epstein-texts\/\">accused of being coached<\/a> by disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein through text messages to question former Trump lawyer <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/michael-cohen\/\">Michael Cohen<\/a> during a 2019 <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/house-oversight-committee\/\">House Oversight Committee<\/a> meeting.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3890969\/house-vote-dc-criminal-justice-enforcement-bills\/\">House set to vote on bills targeting DC criminal justice enforcement<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3891123\/ralph-norman-house-censure-resolution-virgin-islands-stacey-plaskett-epstein-texts\/\">House votes down censure resolution against Stacey Plaskett over Epstein texts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3890515\/house-republican-votes-release-epstein-files\/\">Every House&nbsp;Republican, bar one, votes to release Epstein files<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Luna said the reason the censure vote was unsuccessful was due to a deal several members of Congress made to protect Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) from a similar fate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Plaskett censure failed because house leadership exchanged that censure failure for the withdrawal of a vote to censure and refer Cory Mills to house ethics for investigation. The swamp protects itself. <br \/> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IvS47gWXne\">pic.twitter.com\/IvS47gWXne<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (@RepLuna) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepLuna\/status\/1990972986523070932?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;The Plaskett censure failed because house leadership exchanged that censure failure for the withdrawal of a vote to censure and refer Cory Mills to house ethics for investigation,&rdquo; Luna <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/repluna\/status\/1990972986523070932?s=46\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> in a post on X. &ldquo;The swamp protects itself.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>After the censure vote failed, Luna asked to propose a &ldquo;parliamentary inquiry&rdquo; for which she was recognized.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I was wondering if the speaker of the House of Representatives can explain why leadership on both sides, both Democrat and Republican, are cutting backend deals to cover up public corruption in the House of Representatives from both Republican and Democrat members of Congress?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The gentlelady has not stated a proper parliamentary inquiry,&rdquo; the acting House speaker replied.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Thank you very much, but I think the American people know what happened tonight,&rdquo; Luna responded.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other GOP members of the House echoed Luna&rsquo;s sentiments.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The District&rsquo;s Industrial Corruption Complex (DICC) is hereby protected,&rdquo; Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) said in a post on X regarding the failed censure vote.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3891123\/ralph-norman-house-censure-resolution-virgin-islands-stacey-plaskett-epstein-texts\/\"><strong>HOUSE VOTES DOWN CENSURE RESOLUTION AGAINST STACEY PLASKETT OVER EPSTEIN TEXTS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) accused several House Republicans of taking &ldquo;a dive&rdquo; on the censure vote in order to protect a Republican &ldquo;facing his own ethics issues,&rdquo; presumably referring to Mills.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tonight, a handful of Republicans took a dive on a vote to strip Stacy Plaskett of her position on House intel because of her ties to Epstein. They did it to protect a Republican facing his own ethics issues from a similar vote. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anna-paulina-luna-says-swamp-protects-itself-in-criticism-of-failure-to-censure-plaskett\/\" title=\"... says \u2018swamp ...s itself\u2019 in criticism of failure to ... ...\u00a0\">backroom deal shit<\/a> is swampy, wrong and always&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kat Cammack (@Kat_Cammack) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kat_Cammack\/status\/1990983994653970578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;Tonight, a handful of Republicans took a dive on a vote to strip Stacy Plaskett of her position on House intel because of her ties to Epstein,&rdquo; Cammack said in a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kat_cammack\/status\/1990983994653970578?s=46\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">post<\/a> on X. &ldquo;They did it to protect a Republican facing his own ethics issues from a similar vote. This backroom deal s*** is swampy, wrong and always deserves to be called out.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luna: &#8216;Swamp protects itself&#8217; after Plaskett censure fails<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2677,"featured_media":2512254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AP25141808180190.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[38370,67328,35795,67327,67315],"class_list":["post-2512253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-anna-paulina-luna","tag-censure-failure","tag-political-criticism","tag-stacey-plaskett","tag-swamp-protects-itself"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AP25141808180190.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2512253"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2512257,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512253\/revisions\/2512257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2512254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2512253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2512253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2512253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}