{"id":2567988,"date":"2026-02-09T15:25:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/crockett-says-us-is-falling-apart-in-response-to-maxwell-testimony\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T15:29:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:29:01","slug":"crockett-says-us-is-falling-apart-in-response-to-maxwell-testimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/crockett-says-us-is-falling-apart-in-response-to-maxwell-testimony\/","title":{"rendered":"Crockett says US is &#8216;falling apart&#8217; in response to Maxwell testimony"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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-says-us-is-falling-apart-in-response-to-maxwell-testimony%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=2567988&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 piece reports that Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) condemned the state of the union in response to Ghislaine Maxwell\u2019s closed-door deposition before the house Oversight committee, where Maxwell\u2014convicted in the epstein sex-trafficking case\u2014refused to answer questions, invoking the Fifth Amendment and seeking clemency from President Donald Trump.Crockett argued that the Epstein files and the deposition\u2019s rollout should not be treated as partisan theatre and insisted that, for Democrats, the issue isn\u2019t about partisanship. Maxwell dodged questions; her attorney said she would answer if clemency were granted by the president. White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson rebutted Crockett, calling her statements lies and claiming Trump\u2019s policies have reduced crime, suggesting Crockett lives in an \u201calternate reality.\u201d The article also notes Crockett\u2019s reference to previously threatened contempt actions against Bill and Hillary clinton that were dropped after their testimony, and it cites committee Chairman James Comer\u2019s comment that Maxwell would answer if clemency were granted, highlighting ongoing partisan tensions surrounding the Epstein investigation.  <\/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\">Jasmine Crockett says US &lsquo;falling apart&rsquo; in response to Ghislaine Maxwell pleading the Fifth<\/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_2499815\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Rep. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jasmine-crockett\/\">Jasmine Crockett<\/a> (D-TX) railed against the state of the union in her response to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ghislaine-maxwell\/\">Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a>&lsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-congressmen-surveilled-by-trump-doj-were-actually-subject-to-an-incidental-collection\/\" title=\"Dem Congressmen Surveilled By Trump DOJ Were Actually Subject To An \u2018Incidental Collection\u2019\">closed-door hearing<\/a> before the&nbsp;House on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Maxwell, convicted co-conspirator of sex offender <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jeffrey-epstein\/\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>, refused to answer questions from the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/house-oversight-committee\/\">House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform<\/a>. She pleaded<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4450852\/ghislaine-maxwell-pleads-fifth-demands-clemency-jeffrey-epstein-investigation\/\"> the Fifth Amendment<\/a> as she demanded clemency from President&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a>. Crockett voiced her own frustrations with the way the deposition and the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/epstein-files\/\">Epstein files<\/a> rollout are playing out, focusing her comments on the president while saying, &ldquo;For the Democrats, this isn&rsquo;t about partisanship.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4450852\/ghislaine-maxwell-pleads-fifth-demands-clemency-jeffrey-epstein-investigation\/\">Ghislaine Maxwell pleads Fifth and demands clemency in Jeffrey Epstein investigation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4450620\/ghislaine-maxwell-expected-invoke-fifth-amendment\/\">Ghislaine Maxwell expected to invoke Fifth Amendment in congressional deposition<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4447822\/capitol-staffers-affordability-crisis-celsius-prices\/\">Capitol Hill staffers suffer their own affordability crisis as Celsius prices rise 10 cents<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;The United States is falling apart right now, partially because he&rsquo;s going out and randomly allowing for the killings of people in the middle of the street, but the other part of it is we have a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3877769\/appeals-court-gives-trump-second-chance-to-dismiss-hush-money-conviction\/\">34-count convicted felon<\/a> and there are people that are still shielding him from any type of accountability as it relates to a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >child sex trafficking ring<\/a>,&rdquo; Crockett said. <\/p>\n<p>White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson blasted Crockett&rsquo;s statements to reporters as lies.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is as incoherent as the rest of the lies Jasmine Crockett spews. She doesn&rsquo;t have a shred of credibility on this issue after she&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/jasmine-crockett-it-wasnt-misleading-to-malign-republicans-for-taking-cash-from-normal-americans-named-jeffrey-epstein\/\">falsely attacked Republicans<\/a>&nbsp;because she couldn&rsquo;t properly read an FEC report &ndash; all while failing to explain why Democrats like Stacey Plaskett and Hakeem Jeffries continued to solicit money and meetings from Epstein after he was a convicted as a sex offender,&rdquo; Jackson said in a statement to the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Crockett, vice ranking member of the House oversight committee, said she doesn&rsquo;t &ldquo;understand why we are pretending like any of this is normal.&rdquo; She brought up the committee&rsquo;s threatened contempt resolutions against <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/bill-clinton\/\">Bill<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hillary-clinton\/\">Hillary Clinton<\/a>, which were dropped once the former president and first lady <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4444321\/bill-hillary-clinton-dates-testimony-house-oversight-committee\/\">agreed to testify before the committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When we went through the hearing as it relates to the Clintons, I said, &lsquo;Listen, we know that Donald Trump&rsquo;s name is mentioned more. Bring him in, too.&rsquo; Like, I&rsquo;m not saying that this should be partisan. This should be whoever. I want to be clear about that. For the Democrats, this isn&rsquo;t partisanship,&rdquo; Crockett said.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> that Crockett &ldquo;lives in an alternate reality where the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rick-warren-called-out-for-twisting-scripture-to-make-political-point-you-should-be-embarrassed-to-call-yourself-a-pastor\/\" title=\"Rick Warren Called Out for Twisting Scripture to Make Political Point: &#039;You Should Be Embarrassed to Call Yourself a Pastor&#039;\">truth doesn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t exist.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;President Trump&rsquo;s policies have led crime rates to drop to&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/murder-rate-drops-lowest-level-since-1900-across-major-us-cities-nationwide?msockid=2735490b7c2d6bb633dc5fe57daa6ab2\">historic<\/a>&nbsp;lows. The President&rsquo;s policies are making America safe again; it&rsquo;s unfortunate Crockett lives in an alternate reality where the truth doesn&rsquo;t exist,&rdquo; Jackson said. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4450852\/ghislaine-maxwell-pleads-fifth-demands-clemency-jeffrey-epstein-investigation\/\">GHISLAINE MAXWELL PLEADS FIFTH AND DEMANDS CLEMENCY IN JEFFREY EPSTEIN INVESTIGATION<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During her virtual hearing before the House Oversight Committee, Maxwell dodged questions about the Epstein investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Her attorney said that she would answer questions if she were granted clemency by the president,&rdquo; committee chairman <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/james-comer\/\">James Comer<\/a> (R-KY) said.<\/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>Crockett: US &#8216;falling apart&#8217; as Maxwell pleads Fifth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3976,"featured_media":2567989,"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\/10\/crockett-j.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546,33651,538],"tags":[73399,73398,73400,70303,70028],"class_list":["post-2567988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","category-the-western-journal","category-washington-examiner","tag-crockett-commentary","tag-maxwell-testimony","tag-national-news-2","tag-political-analysis-2","tag-us-politics-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/crockett-j.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567988","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\/3976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2567988"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2567996,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567988\/revisions\/2567996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2567989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2567988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2567988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2567988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}