{"id":2513471,"date":"2025-11-22T07:59:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/crockett-cries-racism-over-criticism-of-democrat-who-colluded-with-epstein-against-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T07:59:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:59:52","slug":"crockett-cries-racism-over-criticism-of-democrat-who-colluded-with-epstein-against-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/crockett-cries-racism-over-criticism-of-democrat-who-colluded-with-epstein-against-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Crockett Cries Racism Over Criticism of Democrat Who Colluded with Epstein Against Trump"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fcrockett-cries-racism-over-criticism-of-democrat-who-colluded-with-epstein-against-trump%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=2513471&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>The article covers Democratic Texas Representative Jasmine CrockettS defense of Democratic Virgin Islands Delegate Stacey Plaskett,who faced criticism for texting with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. A House resolution to censure Plaskett narrowly failed, partly due to some Republican defections. Crockett argued that Plaskett was targeted as she is a Black woman and criticized the focus on her interactions with Epstein rather than on other related issues or on former President Donald Trump&#8217;s involvement. Crockett emphasized there was no ethical violation in texting and pointed out that Plaskett supported releasing related documents, unlike Trump. The piece also mentions that Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre did not accuse Trump of wrongdoing, and an attorney who represented Epstein&#8217;s victims stated that Trump cooperated with investigations and showed no signs of misconduct.  <\/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\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?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<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett aimed at critics of Democratic Virgin Islands Del. Stacey Plaskett texting with registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a Thursday livestream.<\/p>\n<p>Plaskett narrowly escaped censure by the House of Representatives over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vindictive-moron-vile-texts-reportedly-show-hunter-bidens-disdain-for-first-lady-jill-biden\/\" title=\"\u2018Vindictive Moron\u2019: Vile Texts Reportedly Show Hunter Biden\u2019s Disdain For First Lady Jill Biden\">unearthed text messages<\/a> between her and Epstein, with the resolution failing by a 214-209 vote due to defections led by Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/house-republicans-furious-3-side-dems-protect-rep-took-direction-epstein\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Corey Mills<\/a>, a Republican from Florida. Crockett claimed that Plaskett was targeted for the failed resolution because she was a &ldquo;black woman.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;MAGA has decided that they are most upset about the fact that Epstein was sending text messages to his member of Congress, and not that she was engaged in this stuff, not that she got the birthday letter, not that she got all these racy photos, not that literally like her name is mentioned not even a fraction of the amount of times that Trump&rsquo;s name is mentioned,&rdquo; Crockett claimed. &ldquo;Not that she ever tried to hide the files. In fact, she signed the discharge petition and she voted for the release of the files unlike Donald Trump.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/suspect-in-custody-following-alleged-mass-shooting-at-minnesota-urgent-care-clinic\/\" title=\"Suspect In Custody Following Alleged Mass Shooting At Minnesota Urgent Care Clinic\">told&#038;nbsp<\/a>;Republicans to back the legislation to release the files on Sunday, leading to the bill&nbsp;passing&nbsp;the House in a 427-1 vote on Tuesday. Trump&nbsp;announced&nbsp;he signed the legislation on Wednesday night after the Senate passed it via unanimous consent.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We don&rsquo;t have ethical like rules that say that you can&rsquo;t receive text messages or you can&rsquo;t respond to text messages, especially if somebody has a certain record and you can&rsquo;t do it in committee. We all be sitting on our phones and yes, people be texting,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/doctor-center-jasmine-crocketts-false-epstein-allegation-suggests-way-can-get-revenge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crockett<\/a> said. &ldquo;I mean, our staff text us like everybody texts us. Like people I remember when I had the bleach blonde situation. You know who was texting me? My pastor.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadScript(\"https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player3\/embedcode.js?fk=s28Az7AY\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #stnvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#stnvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Okay. So, like let me be clear, there is no ethical violation,&rdquo; Crockett continued. &ldquo;And so, the idea or the audacity to decide that you want to strip a black woman of her committee assignment because she was texting with Epstein, but you don&rsquo;t even want to dig into the nitty-gritty about what the president of the United States was up to. That&rsquo;s where we are? Okay.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>One of Epstein&rsquo;s most prominent victims, Virginia Giuffre, did not accuse Trump of misconduct in her posthumous memoir released October 21, roughly six months after she committed suicide. Giuffre&rsquo;s ghostwriter <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/virginia-giuffre-huge-trump-fan-promise-release-epstein-files-11832756\">told<\/a> &ldquo;People&rdquo; that she was a huge fan of Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Other victims of Epstein told NBC News reporter Hallie Jackson during a Sept. 3 appearance that they had no knowledge of any wrongdoing by Trump. Attorney Bradley Edwards, who represented some of Epstein&rsquo;s victims in court, described Trump as someone who aided his efforts.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The only thing that I can say about President Trump is that he is the only person who in 2009, when I served a lot of subpoenas against a lot of people &hellip; he is the only person that picked up the phone and said, &lsquo;Let&rsquo;s just talk, I&rsquo;ll give ya as much time as you want, I&rsquo;ll tell ya what you need to know,&rsquo;&rdquo; Edwards said in a 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/endwokeness\/status\/1742163993651741136?s=46&amp;t=-LpC4Q1DDzsCmPrDUcCm8g\">video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And [Trump] was very helpful in the information that he gave and gave no indication whatsoever that he was involved in anything untoward whatsoever,&rdquo; Edwards continued.<\/p>\n<div class=\"disclaimer\">\n<p><em>All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >legitimate news publisher<\/a> that can provide a large audience. 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Jasmine Crockett defended Democratic Virgin Islands Delegate Stacey Plaskett amid criticism over her texting with registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, speaking during a Thursday livestream. Plaskett narrowly avoided censure by the House after a resolution condemning her failed 214-209, partly because of Republican defections led by Rep. Corey Mills of Florida. Crockett argued that Plaskett was targeted because she is a Black woman. She pointed out that critics focused more on Epstein&#8217;s texts to Plaskett than on the content she received or how often Trump&#8217;s name appeared in related files. Crockett emphasized that unlike Trump, Plaskett supported releasing the files and did not attempt to hide them.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump urged Republicans to support legislation releasing these documents, which passed the House 427-1 and was signed into law after unanimous Senate approval.<\/p>\n<p>Crockett stated there were no ethical rules prohibiting receiving or responding to texts from someone with Epstein&#8217;s background, noting that everyone texts regularly-including members of Congress and their staff-and shared a personal anecdote about receiving supportive messages during difficult times.<\/p>\n<p>She criticized efforts to remove Plaskett from her committee assignment over this issue while ignoring questions about President Trump&#8217;s conduct.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Virginia Giuffre-one of Epstein&#8217;s most prominent victims-did not accuse Trump of wrongdoing in her memoir released posthumously in October 2023; her ghostwriter said Giuffre admired Trump. Other victims also told NBC News they had no knowledge implicating Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney Bradley Edwards, who represented some Epstein victims, described Trump as cooperative during investigations and found no indication he was involved in any misconduct<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2513472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Ben-Working-Feature-Image-2025-11-21T195818.971.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[47563,4912,50526],"class_list":["post-2513471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-crockett","tag-democrat","tag-racism-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Ben-Working-Feature-Image-2025-11-21T195818.971.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513471","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2513471"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2513475,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513471\/revisions\/2513475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2513472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2513471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2513471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2513471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}